Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-15

club, Monday evening, January II, 1904
bv Clifton T. Hiatt
This paper will have to do mainly will
Sociology, as viewed in the light of an
piled Christianity.
Naturally the first question is: VIVA
is Christianity answer. it is the out
flowing or manifestation in the everyda,
life OF any person or persons having il
them the same mind that was in one
| Jesus of Nazareth, who made manifest
the Christ or truth of God, thereby open
ing up the way, SO that all men can ant
will prove their sonship to God, tho
Father.
The next question is: Can we appl,
the principles of Christianity to all the
problems of our dav, and is the gospel o.
Jesus liveable?
Jesus brought to light immor ,ality,
also rroclaiming the fundamental prin
ciples of the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. The principles that
were laid bare and lived as well as
taught by Jesus are exceedingly simpc,
as well as inteselv practical. Witness.
the Sermon on the Mount. the Lord :
Prayer. the Parable of the Prodgal Son,
the Cufsing ot the Fig Tree. the Driving
ont of the Money Changers. and his
utter denial OF all forms of ecc:esasticism
in his talk with the women at the well.
Jesus Christ offers Sociology the only
scientific ground for discovering all the
facts and forces of lifc--tlat ground is
his universal unity.
However unique we regard the person
OF Jesus. however difficult we regard the
Interpretation of his teachings, however
obscure their literary transmissons to
us, it is clear that the vision that flooded
the soul of Jesus which makes his person
the light of the world, was the oneness
OF substance and clements and forces of
the universe.
The conception of a universe ofsepara.
ton was to Jesus the terrible blasphemy
that had darkened the understanding of
men.
Dualism was devilism. 1t was the very
essence of evil. 1t was itself the gross
darkness that had hidden God from men
and dis-fellowship them from each other,
causing all their wars, lusts and anar
ches; causing them to sit solitary in the
misery and desolation of seIfshness, Ell.
shaved, and crushed under it's TYRANNY
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to be progressive science of socictv-in
order to learn and to teach a construct.
I've knowledge of human relations is the
ground of UNIVERSAL. UNITY, upon which
Jesus stood
Until it becomes q science OF this unity
it cannot become a science OF society,
and society will remain the BAFFLEp
EFFORT OF HISTORY
Society must be unity, cooperative
with all that is, with God and man, with
the spiritual, moral ana physical; with
the known and the unkn wn, or it can.
not be society i'll fact.
The Just society, the society that per.
iectly apprehends the resources and di.
reefs the energy and forces of nature will
he the unity of life of the people with
the life of God
For if there be any sense in the uni
verse, the nature OF man. the nature o!
nature, and the nature of God arc one,
"for in Him all things live, move and
have their being"
The redemption accomplished bv Jesus
was the immovablc establishment of the
government of God in the world.
With this redemption nations mus,
reckon, from this standpoint phloso
piers must think, i'll the light Ct his co
operative revelation the market must
calculate upon this cooperative tounda
ton politics must proceed.
To know that the early Christians
knew how tuapply the principles taught
them by Jesus, yen have only To read the
vival and what they did immediately
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erative colonies or communities in which
the lands and tools of industry were
held in common.
1t seems unaccountably strange to YOU
that any follower of Jesus or any be-
lever in the new testament should eyer
be found opposing political and indus.
trial system which would immeasurabiy
assist the people in living Christian lives.
IT is STRANGE, observing that the rich of
to-day practically all profess belief in
Christianity and, being a Bible student,
YOU have marveled at the strange con.
ceptions of Jesus, his antagonsm to the
rich, and his constant concern for the |
lowly; you hav, read in wonder, doubt
less, OF the first Christian societyat Jeru- !
salem, wherein the members had all
things in common If YOU will read |
carefully the epstle of James your aston.
ishment will grow.
According to history and the writings |
of the early fathers, these communities
tlourished and spread So rapidly that
the Roman government began to cast
about for some means to suppress them
and their co operative teachings, lest the
people come INTO the understanding of
Christianity, and, applying it, should
forever do away with the old Mammon
worshipping forms of government-and
those OF YOU that have read OF the name
less barbarities practised upon the early
Christians will not care to have them re-
counted this evening
The early Christians. like their leader,
esus Christ, did not believe in an auto.
cratic form Of government, nor the com