The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-24
RELIGIO M MS 3.
A Little Subject.
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(BY WARWICK.

(BY 10y WARWICK

| The Men and Religion Forward
Mo cement is bound to do great good
The time was ripe for some such en-
| terprise as this. Religion is a mans
job, though many men do not seem
to know it. Being a Christian is the
| biggest thing in the world. Cecil
| Rhodes was called the man with IN
empire in his brain. The Christian is
a man with the world in his heart.
War has ever been considered a school
of strenuous and heroic living. But
war Is going out of fashion. One
hears of the mechanical equivalent Of
heat. Readers of VIM. James "Varie-
ties of Religious Experience" cannot
forget the fine passage in which he
says, What we now need is to dis
cover in the social realm is the mo-
raj equivalent of war; He means
that men need something high and
heroic to do, something that will ap-
peal to them as war has appealed,
and yet will be as compatible with
their spiritual life as war has proved
itself to be incompatible.
Great wars have always produced
great heroes. When their native land
is invaded, when their rights are
trampled on, when their loved ones
are in danger men show themselves
and are glad to make sacrifices. Some
resign lucrative positions and leave
places of honor to live the life and
risk the death of a common soldier.
The married man leaves wife and
child, the young man bids farewell
to sweetheart and mother, the vete-
ran shoulders his musket once more
and all go forth to face common
danger and fight a common foe. The
man who will not fight when his coun-
try is in danger has hard work to
clear himself of the charge of cow
ardice. We all should pray that wars
may cease to the end of the earth. In
the "cause that is righteous men
have always said with the gentle
Longfellow, Sweet is the smell OF
powder" But war is a terrible trade.
The sons of light and love will all
rejoice when
THE war drum throbs no longer,
And the battle flags are furleG
In the Parliament of man,
The Federation of the World"
The moral equivalent of war can
ever and easily be found by men who
hunger and thirst to serve Christ and
their country. War is a mans job,
but so is being a Christian. Build
ing empires is work for men, but so
in building of the Kingdom of God.
1T IS great to die for ones country,
but t is just as great to live for it."
There are men in Brunswick who
would die for their native land aI
for Il we'd ones in days of righteous
war. But Georgia needs and our city
needs men who are willing to live
heroic and holy lives. We need men
who heartily believe that it is just as
great to be soldiers of the cross as
it is to be soldiers of America. We
need men who will adapt VIM.
BlaEes words and say,
Il will not cease from moral fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my
hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In Georgia's green and pleasant land,
If Jerusalem-that is the Kingdom
of Gods built in our land some eX-
listing things must be destroyed The
saloon must go, the social wrongs
that sin against the days of youth,
the social lies that warp us from the
living truth" These and all their
kind and kin must go. The dispos-
session and destruction Of these
things will involve Us in war-not
agai list men but for them. not against
nations, but against the powers of
darkness, against principalities and
powers, against spiritual wickedness
| in high places.
Men are needed to fight these bat