Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-06-02


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~ viovs fnr,na ana in successive CON
fr.1versiae daayn even ia inc present
Jav Cmficiart il if Ia noint ont
that from earliest times on the
church has insisted that the essence
If rolioion is NOT life mt he!ief- nor
moral character bnt intellectual af-
firm lion not sniritual excellence bnt
+baoIoaicaT conformity So long as
. 49, tLarefoIa nartool of thn sac
raments accented the ~creeds he
1ievad in Christ as his savior 50
1ono wac he reoardod as q Christian
10 7,,ot+ar What Tho sins of his H.
diyidnal life and tho iniustices which
ba nracticed in his relations with
his fellows Aud on thp other hand
NJ matter how honest virtnons and
nI,ra > 1ifa ), man mioht load az .
busband = father naiohhor and
q oitigan, NO natter how ecrun,,to1s
bic fidalitv IN The ;idaals Of inefice
11orcv and truth If ba~raiacfad fro
nroads renndia+ad~ r1brietianitv &c a
ra1oa1od r6Iioion roosrdad 1eSns a.
. human teacher ana NOT a divine "a
vior he vas eycommunicated nv me
cbnrch condemned to social octra-
cisno in tho wor1d and eternal damn
alton in the 5ext Thronqhont al
Cbrietian history corracf heIfef bas
heen The test Of discinleshin accent
anca- Of authoriznd doema the~ a.
preme virtue, rejection Of this dogma
the unpardoGable sin. And this, in
the face of the express teaching of
Jesus, as contained in the famous
Judgment scene of St. Matthew,
wherein the Master accepts as his
disciples not those who have given
food to the hungry. drink to the
thirsty. clothing. to the naked. etc,
and rejects not those who are guilty
of "infdclity," but those only who
have neglected the hungry, the thirs-
ty and the nakedh What a trayesty
of religion, indeed-this emphasis
upon sound theology! And vet it
is fust this Interpretation which has
for ages paralyzed the church as an
agent of social redemption, which has
made 1t possible for the most hideous
social ills to continue for centuries
uncondemned and undestroyed, and
POSTPONED tho coming of the King
dom of Ccd upon earth to a future
as Indefinite rs eternity. Concerned
only with the nroblem of right think
uICGTlY
the problem of right living, and thus
has left the world to welter in its
sin.
l. nv rloco1v anaqooouc IN this and
vat dis+inct enongh to he considered
snart is tho al, ~ anominational-
lem Hera in the world Of Christen-
dom todav ~ va 500 hundreds Of
1i5Torine SectS e7lb nrimarilv CON
c com, % 1ot viii fhe cuitivafion of the
usarsbin If 49, and The service of
man mi win me estahlishm4nt 9of
i1s own n.,'rf,n1ar nrivate natent4d
convr;obtsd internretatton If Chrie'
tiaG 91,cf,ina G n is arraved
90 1i,st. nS,rch n1;1,ister aeainct min
80. con, n,l,n;tv sgainet commun-
Nv in M nova serinns difference
Nm Tho transIotion of = Rih1e teyt
ma 1,nainten.nre If symbolic ser,
VIC ~ ~ halT-snl,tti,y cnihh1e Of
> tboio~iral distincticn And While
re chnrch has inns for centuries
hoe,, da1oting iten1s 70 col1ine +bo