Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-07-28

were deists. They were the most lib
eral kind Of deists. BY the stroke OF
a kings pen they could make a new
god whenever they wished. Now, 1t
was into such vitlating atmosphere
of religious liberalism as this that Dan
iel and his three comrades went to i've.
The UncIean Food.
I can hear his friends talking to him |
and trying to persuade him to eat this
unclean food. "Oh," they say, "Danlei,
of course your God is all right. But
what is the good of being bigot? Why
are you so hidebound about this foodT
Why do you not worship the Babylonish
gods? Why do you not theoioglcaliy
broaden out? Why do you stick SO
close to your Jewish laws? Why DO
you not become a student Of the new
tboughtY" But what is the new
thoughtT" says Daniel. why" say
the Babylonish friends, don't you
know? Have you not been reading our
new theology? Why, the new thought
is n beautiful belief. This is it in sub
stance: God is goodness. God is in US.
We are all part Of God. Just try TO
think of God as a good being ana Try
to develop all the good In you, and you
will grow better and grow like God"
But" says Daniel, what has that TO
do with the first commandment, when
Moses gave to the children of Israel:
am the Lord thy God, which Drought
thee out of the land of Egypt and out
of the house Of bondage; thou shalt
hive no other gods before meW "Oh,
Daniel. Daniel Daniel" say the Baby
lonish friends. 1--WE have Outgrown all
that superstltious stuff. We have out
grown all the commandments and the
Jewish dietary laws. We are the advo-
Gates of the new thought In that
new thought we just try to be good,
md that is all one needs to do" My
friends, cannot you hear Daniers
friends trying to get him to eat the un-
clean food and adopt the religious lib
eralism Of the Babylonish capital?
Is not Satan trying to get you TO eat
Babylons by the same pernicious argu-
ment of theological liberalism? am
not the least bit afraid that you WI.
become q blatant atheist. | am not
afraid that you will turn your back
unon Christ or upon the Bible. But l
am afraid lest the insidiOus advance OF
the new liberal thought should under
mine the foundations Of your faith.
find il doing its deadly work In the
church and In society. Men are giving
nm their anchOrages and are drittlns
out on the sea Of doubt toward the
rocks of eternal disaster. Never let &c
vour faith in the essential truths oi
Christianity. The divinity OF Christ us
sinless life and his atOnement on the
cross. his resurrection and ascension
the work Of the Holy Spirit, the neces
CITY of the new birth and the inspira
tion of the Bible-these are the dis
tinguishing doctrines Of our faith. IL
abandon these is TO surrender all Una
has made our religion a power IN th
world. ii is to turn Christianity into
dry dead system Of ethics. In Chrls
alone have we life. The Bible declare
if If YOU deliberately go forth to ca
of the unclean food in the Babylonlsl
capital you must perish. 0 God, ma.
wa never become so liberal that w
connot make the words of Jesus Chris
the center. the circumference, the al
IN all of what we should believe ant
how we should live!
A National Prejudice.
Rut there is still another fact whlc
would have made the eating OF III
kings meat easy for Daniel. The KING
food was spread in the presence OF III
vonng mans enemies. If Daniel oil
NOT eat the meat and drink the WIN
which came from the royal Kitchen
and wine cellars at once, in all proDt
bility the refusal would be reported l
the kings higher officials, and Damei
bright political prospects wouid n'
only be stopped but without dout
: Daniel would lose his head. "Weili
YOU say, that is strange. How can 'n
hep Daniel did not have any eneml'
t as vet. He had just been selected i'
: future political favortism and had III
] vet eaten his first meal In the palace
l All. nv friends, by that question
r know one fact. You have not travele
l much abroad.
In our country the word "clannis
e ness" has not much meaning. Whe
= we 90 back to our Revolutionary day
S we find that Kosciusko and bare
g Stenben and Lafayette helped TO W
r our independence. Then we find tn
5 Hamilton and n host of other state
s men who helped make us what we a
i were foreign born. Then we find th
o scores and hundreds of inventors III
Y Ericsson and moneyed kings Ike Ca
It negie and teachers like Agasslz we
y also horn across the sea. And tnt
@ strange TO say. the highest recomme
| dation that an artist or writer OF
S nreacher can have before the Amerlc;
/ nublic is that he was foreign Dol
l. But though our own people seem 10 II
d that all prima donnas who have II
eign name can sing better than 0
e own. vet this is not true of forei
e. lands. The man whom the Germa
e are most ready to honor is the Germs
J. The man the English are most rea
N TO honor is the Englishman. The m
e the Scotch are most ready to honor
n the Scotchman. The same law W
IS true of the Romans, the Greeks,
in Fcyptians. the Hebrews and the Bai
N Ionians. The people who were not
le their own nationality were alwa
al looked at askance and despised. tn
le YOU can see the national prejpd
e. which at once arose against Dal
OF after his selection by the king beca
he was foreign borns
W "Whnt Have You DOne~
" "Ahaw the people cry. "Aha! II
81 does not eat the kings meat we
" expose him. Then this foreign upst