The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-25
Man Who Does Utterly
 As He Pleases IS an Anarchist

Fundamental proposition Christian teachers should sQuA rely plant their feet. The modern tendency. happily growing weaker every year. to reRu- late the Chritian's life in matters of detailed practice by ecclesiastical pre-. scription finds no warrant In the New Testament. One mans compunctions may not bind another man's conscience Christ is not honored by machine-mads and marked disciples. Liberty is es. sential to life.
 It was a grave responsibility. how. ever. which Paul placed upon the Christians of Corinth when he accord. ed to them this unprecedented meas. ure of independence and liberty. His safeguard was that he made clear that
 liberty should be animated by love. If each man thought fTst of the others welfare. and of the proat se khs many. he could afford to live by this royal law of freedom. Paul put it In these words: T also please all men in all things. not seeking mine own profit. but the profit of the many. that they may be saved" That, is a controlling principle like unto the magnetic pole. which draws the mariners needle ever toward the north.
 Social Law and "Peraonal Liberty"
 Any man who does utterly as he pleases amid his feliowmen is an an- archist. The law rightly lays its re- straining hand upon such. Selnshness is unsocial He wno serves himself Arst cannot serve his fellowmen. When the rule Is every man for himself" the re- suit is not that the devil gets the hind most. but that he gets the foremost. Pre-eminence in self-seeking is su- preme sin. Let 1t be written plainly and beyond all misunderstanding that whosoever Is seeking his own ways. regardless of his neighbor's welfare. Is an offender against all laws. human and divine. Christian liberty looks first to the welfare of its fellowmen.
 This opens the door to all the legts. lation that Is of late attracting atten. ton in restraint of special privilege. Nobody thinks that he can do as he p.eases with respect to smallpox or measles or sewage or the keeping Of pigs. Neither can he do as he pleases with respect to strong drink. The en frightened judgment of modern society Is that the traffic as whole Is tnimi- cal to the community. The local option successes that have Of late heen re. corded in all parts of the land are merely one slgn of the increased So- cialixation of our times. They indicate that Nselhsh and individual ''personai liberty" must be suhordinated to the prosperity and safety of the whole mass or u1auhIuO 1u otuSs "SAa aSs tH~ reign of brotherhood ts Supplantin9 the reign of predatory selfishness
 The Highest Law.
 What it means concerning society to- day that so many aitruistic sentiments are being enacted into civil law may not here be indicated. The theme ts possible of indefinite expansion The day of brotherhod Is dawning. For there is a higher law than this one of brotherhood. It solves all social and personal problems. It Is the master Key to all locks. Paul laid down this law | to the Corinthian Christians. tt ts tnS best life motto that can be adopted bV | any one! "Whether. therefore. ys oai | or drink, or whatEosver ye do. do all tu the glory oe God"
 There ia the knigh tliest mission thai can enlist the service Of high souls | There is defined q career worthy or an immortal In this sentence Is pointed out the sursst. dearest line along whio' | man can serve his generation and the generation unborn. Whoso lives for Gods glory cannot hep serving mans
 veal Whatsoever conforms to tha,
 test meets all lesser requirements.
 The best society conceivable 10 that wherein the glory of God Is the su' l preme objective Of man.