The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-06-03

the opposite of theTen Commandments |
might have been taught.
Mr.. Bolce makes no sweeping declar-
atoms on his own authority. Out of
the mouths of some of the most bril-
liant teachers in this country, he
makes his case.
Modern college teaching, he shows,
is giving up everything that is old and
each man seizes the new which strikes
most favorably his vagrant fancy.
Many theologians who call them
selves Christians and who occupy
chairs in Christian theological semi
naries, are teaching that there was
nothing divine in the character of
Christ. Indeed, they patronize Christ;
pass Him out of the Trinity and say
nothing more for Him than that He
was a good man. The old Jewish idea
of God they treat with no Difference
Foster, at the University of Chicago,
does not give to Christ the dignity that
the old Arans gave Him. Foster said
He was great man and great teach
er, And yet Foster would denounce
as a bigot the man who would suggest
that he is an infdel.
Frank w. Blackmar, professor of
sociology and economics in the Uni
versity of Kansas, stands upon this
dictum: "Standards of right perpet-
ually change in social life, those staud-
ards are not only being found in differ
ent races, but in the same race from
age to age,n
Professor Sumner of Yale holds to no
fixed standard of ethics, A teacher in a
Syracuse university sees no difference
in cEeeds. One is as good as another,
and the inference is that none is good.
Giddings, of the Columbia University,
is thus quoted discussing marriage
sit is not right to set up technical
legal relationship as morally superior
to the spontaneous preference Of man
and woman.
Morality, they teach, is purely a
matter of custom. That which is right
today is whatever may happen to be
the fashion.
Mr.. Dolce, in reciting this war upon
! the principle of revealed religion, pas,
SEES in review an army from universities
and colleges, beginning with Harvard
and Yale and sweeping across this
country even to California. The most
brilliant professor in these schools is he
who discards the Bible, SCOTS at thu
Declaration of Independence and says
that they who teach that all men were
born equal are egotistic fools.
The rapidity Of this intellectual an
archistic movement in America il
startling. 1t began in theological sem
inaries with the trial of Dr. Briggs
Twenty years ago man teaching in ;
college or an university that the prin
ciples upon which this government
were founded were BASED ON the falla
cious philosophy of the makers of tn
French revolution, would have beer
cast out from the institution. Nov
doctrines like this are being preache'
in the class-rooms of many of the lead
ing schools.
Already the effect of this ''nev
thought has reached into the home
Roosevelt saw it and attempted to com
bat it in preaching against race suicide
Comes back an university professor
sneering at Roosevelt, and says that
is not good thing that children b
born into the world where poverty
sure to be their lot. Others go ste
further and say that the world ha
been looking on marriage from th
wrong viewpoint. A Columbia ma
insists that the most beautiful union
may exist when NEITHER priest, nc
preacher, nor Squire has pronounce
the binding word.
| New England is already reapin
fruit of the harvest that has bee
sown. The American families thel
are small families. The wives of til
rich feel that they have made gre;
sacrifices if they bear their husband
: as many as two children. The bi
, New England families are found onl
: among the emigrants. Religion of II
Older sort has lost its grip on these d
scendants of the Pilgrims. They a
going into new cults in which eaC
person gives to himself the attribute
: of Deity; cures his own ills of flesh ar
y looks forward TO that perfection
al which he will conquer even death
self.
4 After the hysteria of these new reli
= ious movements shall have pasSe
their Votpries shall be so far away fro
n the old order that the philosophy al
I teaching of the plying Christ will a