The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-08-01


now to attach them to the Almighty,
since they have never been taught the
love Of God-the lengths and breadths
and heights and depths passing all hui
man understanding? This is the
worlds great need-to know God as
he really is, Father, Friend, a God
Of Lowell And to thus know Him the
people need to be taught how serious
~ they were onslaught in. the past
along the lines of hell and purgatory.
How could they ever truly love and
worship God of injustice and of hate
Lone inferior to themselves-On who
knew, foreordained and prepared for
their torture, before they were born.
They must see that these things, taught
by the creeds of the Dark Ages, are
wholly at variance with the Bible, else
they will never come back to the BIZ
Bile nor be able to see its teachings In
their true light They must be taught
that the sin and death, sorrow and
trouble all around us are the wage or
penalty of father Adams disobedience.
They must learn that God proposes
blessing and uplifting which will be
as world wide as is the curse. They
must learn that the foundation for this
work was effected by the death of
Jesus, the Just for the unjust They
must learn that God is now selecting
a saintly class to be associates with
the Redeemer in the work of uplifting
and blessing Adam and his race; and
that each will be held responsible and
receive stripes in proportion to h'
knowledge and wilful disobedience;
and that the persistently rebellious will
be destroyed like natural brute
beasts" in the Second Death.
a Have Lost My God"
Not long since, in conversation with
a young lady, she said with great con-
Germ, 81 fear that l have lost my
God AS child Of religious parents
she had had helpful influences in her
home, but In school she had come in
contact with the general spirit of
skepticism, which. instead of repudiat-
ing the Bible, as did Ingersoll, Paine
and Voltaire, merely smiles at any ref
erence to a Divine revelation, a faith
In God and a respect for His will.
These teachers are as honest, we be-
lieve, as were Ingersoll, Paine and
voltaire; nor can we deny that they
have the same right to their disbelief
that we claim for our belief. We can,
however. say with all sincerity that
1t is great pity that the learned men
Of Christendom are nearly all infdels,
In the sense Of not believing in the
Bible as Divine revelation.
Many Of them even deny that there
is personal God and ascribe every
thing to--a great Nothing, which they
designate Nature-god. Is 1t surpris-
ing, in view Of the fact that these
teachings are being promulgated in
the universities and colleges and theo-
logical seminaries. in the high schools,
and even to some extent in the COM
mon schools-is 1t any wonder that the
rising generation is losing its God? II
1t even be claimed that bad thing
is better lost than kept, we must dis
sent from their course. We must claim
that the misconception of God can
be destroyed only by the introduction
to the heart and mind of the true God.
whose glorious attributes of Justice,
Wisdom, Love and Power will take
the place Of the malevolent miscon-
ceptions Of the Dark Ages.
Awakened Parental Responsibility. /.
1t is high time that parents realize
the true sltuauon-it is almost too lat,
aolo. The seeds of unbelief, already
sown in the minds of the rising gen
GRAFTON, are being watered continually
and are growing. All who love their
families, allAwho love mankind in gen.
eral, should awaken to the fact that
a world that has lost Its God must Of
necessity be an unhappy world. Pla-
tonic philosophy may for a time serve
the purposes Of the few, but surely
cannot serve the masses of our race.
A goddess world will ere long mean a
Disconnected world, an unhappy world
and, bye and bye, world Of anarchy
and strife. This is what our world
wide education is leading to. Few Of
our race can stand an education which
recognizes no God, no revelation OF
Him, no responsibility to Him, and no
hope Of future life which viii be
effected by the conduct of the pres
ent
God In the Home.
IN NV nj Aw.A
rant We are urging that in every
home God be recognized to the extent
Of the opportunities and influence we
enjoy. Parents have a special respon-
sibility. Every father, In particular.
as the head of his family. should rec
ognize the Almighty Creator, and hold
Him up to his family-"God Firstr
We need not urge upon Gods conse-
Grated people the privileges Of pray
er and the blessed influence which
comes through prayer to the younger
members of the family. This is one
way of putting God First" I'm all
thy ways acknowledge Him." or, al
Joshua said "As for me and my.
house. we will serve the Lord"
Let us now step into your home and
measure things there by the Golden
Rule. AS husbands. how do you treat
your wives? AS wives, how do you
treat your husbands? Can you apply
the Golden Rule to your words. to your
conduct. to your demands of each
other2 Or do you act meanly, selfish
~, taking advantage of each other,
to the limit that the other will for
bear? Do you deal with your children
according to the lines of the Golden
Rule? Are you an ideal parent, ac-
cording to your own advanced stand
ard Of what a parents duty should be
to his children?
Do you remember that you have a
responsibility for their training, re-
sponsibility so far as your circum-
stances win permit, for their environ
ment and happiness and education and
general preparation for usefulness in
life? Or are you Indifferent to their
interests. neglectful of your resnonsi-
bilities? Do you recognize that your
children have certain rights and that
these increase as they near maturity,
or are you forgetful of these, disposed
to keep the children under the re-
straints Of childhood, souring their dis
positions and making them unhappy,
until they resent the injustice and a.
family quarrel results?
As children, are you thoughtful OF
your parents. their welfare, their wish
es, their happiness. as you would like
your children to be thoughtful Of
yoursa Do you remember the hours
aud weeks Of fesblsness and sickness