The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-07-21
FROM THE FEED.


tian claim the bible as the funda-
mental source from which they re-
ceive the inspiration leading to the
enactment of their criminal laws.
The majority of the inhabitants of
christendom profess to believe that
the writer's of the different books OF
the bible were acting directly under
the inspiration of God. 1t is general
~ accepted as fact that amid thun-
ders and lightning while thick !
cloud enveloped Mount Sinai the !
voice of the trumpet exceedingly |
loud; so that the peop'e trembled |
while the mount quaked from base
to summit; God delivered for the |
guidance of all future generations
the ten commandments: Thou shalt !
have no other god before me. Thou |
shalt not make unto thy self any
craven image. Thou shalt not take
the name of the Lord, thy God in
vain. Remember the Sabbath day to
keep 1t holy. Honor thy father and
they mother Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not |
bear false witness against they |
neighbor Thou shalt not covet thy |
neighbours house etc.
These ten commandments are
thou shalt nots but within them
selves prescribe no penalty They |
are the constitution of the theoracy
established for the guidance of the
Israeltish government We find
that next God gave to Moses the
statutes necessary to the enforce
ment of the provisions of the consti-
tuition setting forth in plain Ian,
guage the penalty attached to the
violation of any one of the ten thou
shalt nots together with such other
laws, civil and criminal as He deem
ed necessary for the government or b
His chosen people. If we believe the Il
bible to be the authentic word of 7
God the further conclusion is forced n
upon us that He knew exactly how
much government was good for the nj
human race The world was not ex- ~
actly new and the human race was b1
not an experiment for He had al vo
ready destroyed most of the race hi
few centuries before because of the al,
fact that they were so wicked that NJ,
they had became a stencil upon the vi
face of the earth. 1t would not be re
fair to say that there are some meth NJ,
DDS of cussedness now practiced by NO
humanity which the ingenuity Of a+
man had not invented when God a.
Numbered forth the Decalogue from | ~
tremblinO Sinai. Neither would it be E
consistent With this character TO say 2
he forgot something when he gave
Moses the laws or that there were
some of the sinful practices of man
that had escaped his notice. The
commandments and the laws OF r
Moses are either the words Of God -
or they the invention of man. II ~
they were handed down direct from | -
the throne of God then it follows =
that the government calling itself \
Christian assumes an authority not
warranted by the Divine will and is OF
entitled to its place among the ma Isl
lions that forgot God when it adds I'D
TO or detracts one iota from the 70
civil or criminal laws handed down 50
to Moses for the government of the I'd
Jews. 1t is up to us 10 decide DO "S
we believe the Bible? If we believe, III
are we smarter and better than God? II
1t is a fact that the Author and =
Ruler of the Universe is a back num- Il
Der and not capable of keeping up a.
with our advanced knowledge and
moral laws? If we are a Christian Z
people and really believe the Bible
TO be the inspired word of God let's e
study II. learn it's laws and abide 5
by them. If we do not believe, let's v
read 1t as we would Shakespeare's l
plays or some product of the an |
cient philosophers. | do not sup /
pose the Jews got settled in Pales-
tine before they began to make
some improvements on their laws
and certain it is that when the great
Nazarine came among men he found |
traditions had about obliterated the
laws from the memory of his peo- |
pie On down to the present day ;
man has made those acts crimes the
Lord never thought to include IN
the crime catalogue. When Queen
Elizabeth was only a princess she
had to eyade the question in order
TO avoid trouble when asked her po- I
sition on the doctrine of transsub-
sanitation or the theory that the !
bread and the wine of the Eucharist {
became the real flesh and blood of j
Christ Thousands of victims were
burned at the stake because they {
disputed such damnable foolishness |
What are you going to do about 1t? !
Are you going TO accept the laws of /
Moses as the will of God and con c
clude that being omnipitent He fin I
ished such code as he knew man /
needed? Or are you going to act I
upon the hypothesis that God knew q
pretty well how to lay down rules OF {
action for the Jews but is too far $
behind the times to know what is J.
for the best interests of the Chris d
tian people of the goth century, In b
dividually care very little what you h
do q hnnt Il Lnt 1 m.nnlA he nIGased b