Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-08
REV. w. BRUCE DOYLE,
Native os Oconee, Opposes AmaIga-
nation of Politics and Religion.
birmingham e-Herald. J


J, Gently delivered sermon to his con-
gregation which he has given to the
press to he used II opposition to the
constitutional amendment
In commenting on this sermon the
Marion Standard says editorialiy:
The sermon is beyond question one
nj the most scathing rebukes to the
Pergy, who would mix politics and
religion, that has ever, within our
recollection, appeared in a State pa
per. There is not superfluous sem
tence from the beginning to the end, =,
and II is a document, If answered at
. All, must be 81 reason and authority
and not by assertion. The waving of
the hand or the playing upon senti-
ment will not uproot the minister's
logic. 1t is dynamite applied with
force and effect. 1t sounds the toe
sin that Thus far thou can go and
no further If the influence of the
church and it's ministry is to con-
tinue as now
Rev. Doyle's Sermon.
The Rev. Doyle says: at is not
my purpose to get mixed up in the
issue now pending, but my sermon
was for the public, and / have no
objection to furnishing you with
synopsis of 1t, and you are at lib
erty to print it if you wish
The sermon is as follows:
Render, therefore, unto Caesar
the things which are Caesars, and
Sunto God the things that are Gods"
Matthew xii, 21.
"My kingdom is not Of this world"
John xviii, SO.
The words Of thu text were spoken
by the Lord Jesus Christ and form
the basis of our thought while we
speak of the spirituality of the
churches.
From Abraham unto Christ the
government of the church and Jew
ish nation was the same. A member
Of one, law Of one; an officer of
one was the member, the law or the
a
covenant with people and that peo-
pie had State and a church; for
both God supplied the polity.
In those days, domestic, social,
civil and ecclesiastical affairs were
wrapped in the same bundle. Such
condition was, in the wisdom of
God, necessary in those days. Ami
NAL life was then in it's infancy and
the human family was but, a youth.
Influences, therefore, were strongly
felt. The amalgamation of church
and State was safeguard for the
society of the royal race.
But since Jesus coming the Or
ganization of church and State have
been in the wisdom Of God, better
administered separately.
Jesus said that his kingdom was
not Of this world; that we must
draw line between the manage
ment Of Caesars government and
the propagation of the gospel. Je-
sus said that He was a king, and it
was written over His head on the
cross in three tongues, yet he con-
vened no congress, mobilized no
army, and set up no throne in His
r,,ccity. Jesus forgave sins, but paid
tstxes with Roman coin.
These Hebrew missionaries whom
Jesus sent into the world did go
into Asia at once, but could not
carry with them the government of
Judea. They had no time to waste
on political orations or civic teach
ing. The field was white unto the
harvest and the fruit was to be
gathered by preachers into the
church Of God and not the body poll
tic Of Canaan's Land. The contest
S2f the world was earnestly begun at
= 'PentecOst, but the conquered ones
were not to do obeisance to the
throne Of Solomon or Hezekiah. 1t
was enough that they should enter
the kingdom not of this world, be
enrolled in the Lambs Book of Life,
enlist with the army that fights with
the sword Of the spirit.
GO We into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature,
teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever | have commanded you"
That is the commission given to the
heralds of the good news from CAL
vary's cross and the empty tomb of
the riCnn haf i, thH hncinncc
Of the church to-day.