Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-10
LAW
SCORED BY
ADVENTIST
Calls Acts Relics of Dark Ages,
and Preachers Who Advocate
Them Politicians.

sunday laws are relics Of the Dark
Ages, and their enforcement would
take US back to those times. They
should be repealed. The minister who
seeks 10 have them enforced has de-
parted from his sacred commission
of preaching the Gospel and is soiling
his hands with politics. such a
preacher should give up his sacred
calling, claim no commission from
God and openly come out for what
ne really is-a politician"
These opinions We're voiced by Car
lyle b. HAYNES, a minister and secre-
tary Of the SOUTHEASTERN Division 81
the American Religious Liberty As
ISOLATION, at the first session Friday
of the three days religious liberty
institute being held here in the First
seventh-Day Adventist Church on
Fair street, which delegates are
gathered from the Seventh Day Al
ventit churches in Georgia.
Speaking on the Origin Of ne
Church and the Origin Of the state. .
Mr.. Haynes said:
How State and Church Differ.
THE church is built on Christ, not
Peter. not on any man or group Of
men. The keys of the kingdom Of
heaven which were given 10 the
church are the words OF the Bible.
These words have power to open and
shut heaven. They declare the condi-
lions upon which men are received or
rejected.
christian kings and Mohammedan
sultaus have preached their respec-
tive gospels by the sword. telling con-
quered peoples that they must be bao-
tized or die Vanqushed armies have
thus been baptized en- masse. This
was not religion bat politics.
while all men should promptly
obey the laws OF the civil government
relating to the duties Of men to each
other, obedience must be refused when
such laws clash with religious obligd-
tions to God.
The state is an institution Of God,
as IS the church. Pau says The
powers thar be are ordained Of Cod
The very fact that they both are or
dained of God is evidence that they
operate in different spheres, for God
does not create two different insti-
tutions to perform the same work.
Civil government, however, does
not supersede divine government; it
does not in the slightest degree re-
lease the individual from obedience
10 the divine law. II merely provides
d way by which men can compel
their fellows 10 yield to them those
rights which belong 10 them
The decision OF questions of re-
Egion, which is really effected by
such A law as Suncay law, does
not lie within it's sphere 1t is not
instituted TO purify and elevate per-
sonal character It's appeals are not
made TO the consciences and affec
tions Of men. Its methods are de-
terrent. not persuasive.
Deal With Different Things.
1T makes no inquiry into motives,
but Furnishes acts Aud its penalties
are VISITED upon crime. NOT upon SIN,
Beyond the grave it promises 90 re
wards. but concerns itself with this
world only 1t does not remit its pen
allies on repentance OF the criminal
Thus the state differs in purpose,
methods, rewards. punishments, ano
sanctions from the church one is
scheme Of salvation from sin, the
other is secular government. One
deals with eternity the other with
time one is presided over by an ON
nipotent and omniscient God, who
looks to motives and knows the heart
of man: the other - presided over
by falible men, falibe courts and
institutions, which look to overt acts
and which must be guided by eva
dence which may be misleading