The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-03-12
~ Rev G. NJ Morcland. Pastor NJ. f
Church, South.
Serial Sermon No. 3
Scripture Text:
III DO NOT sin asainS, the child
-tt Genesis 4s-ss

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lowest forms Of sensation through in
stict to intelligent moral consciousness
tis equally beyond the radius of phylos.
oPhy That sea Of mystery wherein are
reflected all the prismatic glorics of the
divine attributes realm where life and
love are synonymous Life is loves idol
Iiife is love in action Revolving worlds
ami marshnllcd systems arc meaningless
Without life, without intelligent life are
aimless Tile unstinted prodigality in
natural resources are devoid of reason
without varied and sundry life All AN
unsolyed mystery were not its interpre-
tation found in man Life stands related
10 history as great forces are related to
naiurc Around him are marshallcd the
CHRONOLOGY Of the world Creation were
an unfinished task, and stands to reason
an infinite Interrogation, without life, an
unfinished revelation OF God. without
high moral and spiritual life
Value of human life universal index
to civilization Low state of self con-
sciousness cheapcns life. Bishop Charles
u Galloway once said Life that has
no future can have no value" Civilian
ton keeps step with racial ideals. Tx
tendng the horison raises the value of
life unciyilized man deserts his own
offspring to the wild beasts OF the forest.
OF sacrifices him to some tutelary God
Women tear their infants from their arms
and cast them into the Gauges or pass
them through the fires of Molock for sell
hsh ends Commital of the lily formed 10
death, because they could not serve the
State marked early history OF Greece
Nations with no vistagc of immortality
live in eternal combat and royel IN car
mage The hero of such civilization is
rcdened with human gore Less barbario
nations, but with no less narrow horizon
commit their offspring unto uncouth
purses aud for some sensual selfish end
commit them to chance or sacrifice for
haunts of fashion and pride, and sensual
iy
Thousands pass through the fires Of
greed and grind in the mills Of ayarice
where light Of hope is put out, where like
the poor Turkish woman when asked
what the life of Turkish women was
like, said 1T is like hell Could the
Secret record of God bc opened into so
called civilized centers and that pyramid
OF infant skulls be seen, whose lives have
been sacrificed to pride and greed, would
it deserve the title of Christian civiliza-
lion No less barbaric To sacrifice here
than to Moloch
The child, the most valuable asset of
naiion or race, State or Church. Eco
.nomically at one year of age, each child is
estimated to be of the value Of one hun
.drcd dollars, with sn ever increasing
value with the years. Statistics show
that three hundred thousand infants un-
der one year died in Christian America
last year, one hundred and ffty thousand
.of which was of preventable ailments.
What criminoity through ignorance or
indifference Our economic loss on the
above estimate was fifteen million dollars
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