Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-12-28
FBB AND FLOOD
TIDES OF Good
O.,,ogre,sion and Progression
AJIres, by Elihu S. Riley.
SOCIAL SERVICE CLUB.
RI. Final Victory VIII be for God and
B,oiherhool Truth Crushed to
Earth Shall Rise Again"

n. .ra second Monday Of each
.a tbs Social Service Club meets
,sa r8rpose Of discussing social
.s,ens some time ago the Social
rr Clgb was organized with the
..-l 0f studying modern social
-..,ioDs Of The day, and analyzing
Ia solving them.
Tts Social Service Club is open
gomcn as we'll as to men. At
.ss lad meeting an address was
l.,r.red bv Mr. Elihu S. Riley, and
sgg ~ Il requested by the Club
Qualification in the Evening Capital.
rbe address follows
From oge TO age the tides of
..srrsssion aud rttrogression have
.sssd and flowed over the seething
N human affairs. The race be-
u, AZ the high-water mark Of morals
soi mentality. II had even the seal
\ eternal life in the flesh set upon
r. There was no provision for death
asia means of translation to a better
rar3 Except for the fall, wnen
reps days on earth had been num-
-arl he may, and probably would,
have followed the highway TO heaven
hat Enocb end Elijah trod.
From perfection. such had be-
.sne mans imperfecion that after
epoch Of not quite seventeen hun
lrsd years, every living human be-
.ng had 90 be destroyed except eight
anls The tide had been one of
irsadlal retrogression with the high
st beings Of Gods creation in the
world
Th5 Second Age Needless of
fo warning of an almost universal
destruction Of the race, before an
ether thousand years haG elapsed,
ara was sent from heaven to de-
str0y two cities whose wickedness
mi become unbearable, and right
sgs men We're so scarce that they
Ee marked characters, and even
t5r righteousness was tinged with
g that would today. condemn
Asn TO the eyes of honest men.
Abraham and Lot, though favored of
Cod. stand out as types of goodness
d the patriarchial age, and yet one
i.i not aesitate to prevaricate and
ae other was guilty of drunkenness
ni horrible incests.
THE Third Age-Then God drew
r.Ea again 60 the earth and gave the
Mosaic 0Ispensation. The world had
ni entered in the age of man upon
Is third thousand years of existence.
At Che end of the Mosaic period could
abe said that the world had made
great progress in divine things and
human betterment? The books of
Aaccabees, that chronicle the closing
o, that period, might we'll be called
The Books of Blood from the relent-
ess slaughter recorded in them. Ma
aoas were made actual slaves in con-
lasst; prisoners tortured; stock and
stone turned into gods and worship
9ei might was right, AND pity and
ioaflty were tried in the clouds of
cruelty and selishness. Then the Son
IT Righteousness arose with healing
"a It's wings A new religion and a
Pew civilization We're presented to
ae world
In the dark nights that preceded
ae coming of Christ there were
%,auaatl'ns from the sky that show
s thre We're yet traces Of the orig
'aa' Adam preserved from the fall.
Eva which connect the splendid efforts
Z. NOBLE minds and generous hearts
p. 'alsy with these initial attempts
3" taat Christian socialism which
.'gAs % cement the brotherhood of
-ea and aims TO make one family of
e'l9g hearts all the nations of the
g.. Ihs most perfect ideal of Chris
'-a socialism. as understand it