The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-29

nnE lesson comes to us tnan TINS.
Education IL not enough. If you have
studied the faces OF the men who planned
the haymarket riot in Chicago. you have
been impressed by their evident BRAIN
power The only balance wheel. the only
safeguard is belief in God. The wretch
who shot President Mckinley was an
atheist-the crime was no longer II crime
In his view of it, but placed upon his
brow crown of glory. If there is no
God there is no such thing as morality
even, and to take the life of any man is
simply a pastime: cannot be crime. If
God is not. my will, and wish, and whim,
are the only laws to guide and control
me. 1t Is well in this time of hush, when
we are puzzling over this problem, to face
this fact.
ANARCHISTS ARE ATHEISTS.
Says the Chicago Tribune: "Anarchists
are always atheists. Their fundamental
proposition that there Is no rightful gov
ernment begins with the assertion that
there is no God. If there Is no God there
is no moral government Of the world. and
in the general chaos 1t is every man for
himself. If anarchy has any logic. any
thing besides its brutal hatreds that is it..
When that typical anarchist. the unsav-
ory Johann Most. was in Chicago. In a
meeting of anarchists speaking freely in
German. he declared that the first thing
they as anarchists had to do was to de-
stroy every altar to eXtinguish every re-
ligion, to tear God down from the heav-
ems. What right he said, would any
man have to govern other men, less God
gave him that right, Down with God!'
In this Most was only a rabid echo of
Of Karl Marx. The assassin Of President
Nc kinley, like Emma Goldman, was blat-
ant in protesting his atheism. declaring
that there Is no God, that he has no use
II a a
that will not be soon forgotten, that just
when the assassin imagined he was doing
something to usher in the new social
condition, in which there would be neither
God nor government of any sort, there
came from the heart of the president such
an acknowledgement of God as had
the effect to walsen in the hearts of all
the people such sense Of relation of God
to human affairs as had never before in
our history found more impressive utter
ance. ut is Gods way; His will be done.
not ours"
A friend of mine. when a student in
Germany. attended an immense mass
meeting of socialists and anarchists where
some question was under debate, and as
they were separating he spoke to one
and another, and having used the name
of God in conversion. man turned to
him and said, sneeringly. do you be-
lieve in God? You are the first man 1
have met in fifteen years who believed
in God" The anarchist first drives God
from His throne-votes Him out of eX-
istence. and then consistently seeks the
overthrow of all government Said Bishop
Hoban at the meeting in the armory in
Scranton: "The hand that struck down
our president did not strike to crafty
personal animosty 1t was a blow of
disorder against order; chaos against
law; anarchy against government. All
anarchists are either atheists or ma teri
alists. Education is not the only remedy
of this anarchical evil Anarchists are
mostly all educated men-that is. edu
Gated without God. Law alone will not
eradicate it, Russia is full of laws The
panacea must be something higher and
superior to education or law. He must
go back to God. Religion is the cure
BELIEF IN GOD.
The belief in God, I say. is the great
remedy for--the great bulwark against
anarchy and as the good bishop says.
Churches stand for law and order and
the churches keep alive the sense of Gods
nearness. On this ground-as the foe of
disorder-pl ojecting the fact that God is,
and so raising banne. against wrong,
the church makes her appeal to every
right thinking American citizen. AS a
law abiding. liberty-loving. anarchist
inuf1ence God has given you into organ
ized Christianity, "the pillar and ground
of the truth" and the recognized foe of
Atheism, which breeds, and always
breeds anarchism.
Brothers, the blow has fallen, shifting not
one, but all
Over the world of nations, Liberty's
blood-drops fall.
Rally then. all ye peaple-one in the COM
mon cause
Order against sedition-Order, the first
of laws!
Brothers, the truth is spoken, shifting the
i'll at root.
Cursing the seed of evil, judged by its
harvest fruit!
God is the lack of nations, Christ is the
lack of men:
Anarchy fees religion. Crime Is Faiths
alien.
Symbols supremest freedom Hither hu
manity
Must. first or last, turn humbly, search
ing diviner ways.
Else are its straying footsteps lost in the
social maze.
race lne great truth, my DrOtnerS. Mur-
der and hate and greed:
Envy of lofty places, egotists' scales and
creed
These are the fallen human; only in God
abides
Charty-social keynote; singing where
peace presides.
Anarchy's irreligion, falling God, fails
mankind
Christ's are the only ethics potent to
draw and bind
Men unto men as brothers, striving for
human good
Sons free and equal under Gods father
hood,
Choose, o ye kings and rulers. Choose,
ye courts and schools.
Anarchy reigns red-handed over mere
human rules
Peace and the civic safety bide where
the soul laws are.
Back to Faiths social gospel-God and
the Christ-childs star!
IMPULSE TOWARD ANARCHY.
Friends, whatever undermines the sa-
cred character of law is an impulse to-
ward anarchism. No thoughtful man but
that is impressed with the fact that the