Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-08
The church is not to equip dental

colleges, maintain law schools or
teach agriculture. Yet the church
has as much right to tell farmer
how he shall plow as to tell suf-
fragette how he must vote.
The church has no authority for
making laws for the country. or a
truth members are to have a share
in maintaing a decent government,
and by no means are they relieved
of voting in their commonwealth.
but this they do as citizens of an
earthly country and not as a church
of God whose kingdom is no. of this
world.
The church, as such, has no more
right to make laws for the Legisla-
ture than the Legislature has to
make laws for the management of
the church's work. The church has
no more right to say who shall be
elected to State office than the State
has to say who shall be made an ell
der or deacon. The sheriff has no
right to tell your pastor what he
shall preach and your minister has
no right to dictate what ticket you
shall vote. If the preacher votes
the Socialist ticket, the Republican
elders have no more right to COM
plain than a Democrat who sells
rum.
Laws OF Church.
The church may make laws to gov
ern it's own internal affairs, but has
no right to make laws that touch
people outside the church. If we,
as church, claim the right to make
law for one unconverted man of
the world, then we must concede to
the infidel the privilege Of making
laws for us. The church, as such,
has no right to make laws to regu-
late a saloon-keepers business, and
on the same principle we deny him
vote when we elect elders and
deacons.
The church has no right to make
law which carries with 1T q pen
atty that touch's a mans time, money
or person. Put up the sword"
vengeance is mine, ] will repay,
saith the Lord" "If 1t be possible,
as much as lieth in you, live peace
ably with all men," "Be We wise as
serpents and harmless as doves"
The penalty for the violation of
Gods laws is in Gods hands. AS a
church we have no right to punish
man by fines, stripes or imprison-
ment. Having no right to admin
ister such a penalty, We, have no
right to make a law carrying with it
such a penalty for some other power
to enforce.
The church is a spiritual organi-
cation, dealing with the affairs of
the soul and it's relationships, and
not temporal society dealing with
material matters.
Now, brethren, much of our
church trouble is caused by the in
PRODUCTION into the church of foreign
matters. Much of our civic discord
is caused by injecting into political
realms organized religious effort or
intolerance.
Do you not know, brethren, that
the tangling up Of ecclesiastical and
political matters has caused on earth
more torture, bloodshed, death and
hell than any amalgamated product
of sin?
NerO's Work.
Who does not remember the blood
chilling stories Of Nero's work?
Who has forgotten the history of a
religion--part Christian, part Pagan
and part Heathen-tiat was thrust
upon the Teutonic peoples with the
sword and the flames? Who does
not think of the Mohammedan knife
in Asia? Who has forgotten the
develish inquisition of .Spain-the
result of mixing politics and relig-
ion and cementing them together
with fanaticism and vanishing them
with intolerance? Your children
can relate the history of bloody
Mary, and you can recall the scan
dals and things moer devilish con-
nected with Henry the Eighth. Who
does not know that between Boston
and Port Royal mothers have be-
held the bodies Of their butchered
babes, husbands have seen their
wives die before their faces, and
maiden and young manhood have
given their blood to paint the sands