Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-01
Is Far Too Freely
Taught.
Rev. D. A. BIose Speaks
of It.
What Can be Done to
Shut It Out?
Even Ohio Cities Contain Many
of the "Reds."

ing anarchy in the Arlington st. Con-
church, Sunday, saying
other things:
Christ confessed the divine author
ity of civil government. He paid
taxes. He was obedient to Roman
law. He said: Render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesars and unto
God the things that are Gods" Paul
wrote to the Christians in Rome: 'Let
every soul be subject unto the higher
powers. For there As no power but
of God; and the powers that be are
ordained of God. Whosoever resisteth
the power, resisteth the ordinance of
God, and they that resist shall re-
ceive to themselves condemnation.
For rulers are not a terror to them
that do good, but to them that do
evil" Pauls charge to Timothy, the
pastor of the church in Ephesus, was,
Put them in mind to be subject to
principalities and powers, to obey
magistrates" Who are they that de-
spise government? Peter replies:
"They that walk after the flesh in
uncleanness." He charges men every
where to Fear God," and Honor the
King. And Jude wrote of the anar-
chists of his time, that they are
filthy dreamers, defiling the flesh,
and despising dominion"
Anarchists are opposed to all exist
ing order-to our domestic, social,
civil, educational, political, and relig-
ious institutions. They demand no
government, and the removal of all
restraints upon the individual.
Anarchy is atheistic. mo God" is
their watch-word. This is the key
stone in the arch of their professed
belief.
Bakunin, one of the chief apostles
Of anarchy said in his speech in
Geneva, in 1865 81 am the bearer of a
new gospel, whose mission is to de.
stroy the lie, the beginning of which
is God" Herr Most, German, who
advocated assassination as a means
of progress, whose doctrines We're too
extreme for the Social Democratic
party in Germany, from which he was
expelled on account of his views, and
who came to this country to dissemi
nate his doctrines, concludes an ar
ticle in the Freeheit, his blasphemous
paper, in these words. "Religion, au
thority and state, are all carved out
Of the same piece of wood-to the
devil with them allv'
Denial of the existence Of God
leads to the denials Of the laws OF
God-the rejection of our holy scrip
tures-and to the wholesale condem
nation of Christianity.
Anarchists are therefore violently
opposed to the church. In a mani
festo unanimously adopted at Pitts
burg few years ago they say, 1.-The
church finally seeks to make com.
plete idiots of the mass of the peo
pie. and to make them forego the
paradise on earth by promising them
an imaginary heaven" An anarchist
is the enemy Of the preacher, and OF
the church.
He is opposed to our domestic in
stitutions, especially to marriage. laws
Marriage is with him a kind of ty
ranny that ought to be abolished. H,
well knows that the abolition of mar
riage is the destruction of the home
And, he knows that the homes of {
nation are the bulwarks of persona
and national safety and thrift.
| He is, In short, the enemy of law
of order, of the good God and Of al
men who aim to be and to do good
Anarchy is the growth of a singl,
century-of the last century.
How did it come into being?
A partial answer is found in tn,
appalling fact that Italy has furnish
ed more than one hundred out of tn,
one hundred and fifty regicides of tn,
nineteenth century. That Italians
have attempted the assassination O
more public officials-twice as man,
as all the world besides. And why
Because the city of Rome herself hal
more illiterate men, women and child
Kenmore ignorant people than any
city in Christendom. Russia follow
Italy in the number Of anarchists