New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-03
THINKS THE CHURCHES BLIND
He Sees Their Ruin Unless They Mend
Their Ways.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: II is q long time since have
peruscd a copy of your paper. although
/. was. next to the Bible ard the Re-
puhlican party. my fathers idol. That
was thirty years ago, and If M iather
were alive to-day ! wonder what MS
feelings would be TO 500 his old Churcn
vigibly declining in power. his old party
dethroned. ard his favorite paper
actually presenting two sides OF public
questions through its "Opcn Forum for
Public Debate" This last feature is
what appcals TO nc. for am ono OF the
sixty millions o. our people Who cannot
tolerate m INSTITUTION thot cndcayors
to conGae Almighty God between the
covers Of one book. The churches seem
TO b., utterly blind To the signs OF the
times. but L requires 10 special gift OF
prophecy 20 discern that unless they
become forums for the discussion oil
law and not dogma there will not re.
main one stone upon another that VIII
not be torn down: unless the LORD
build the house, they labor in vain who
build it,"
If may make you suggestion i Is
this-cultivatc the rising generation
and ihus build for the future, for the
world do move" II will not be long be-
fore the boy who says 81 am this or
d at because my father is" will find
himself utterly outclassed by those who
use the powers Of thought with which
they are endowed. II is not for nothing
that 10 two things or this planet are
alike. and our pearl without price IS
cur personality.
In tJ-day's Forum | see that the
source Of the Ten Commandments u
still considered a live issue. The first
man who ever lived found them written
ir his conscience. Eight Of them are
negative. and II ought 20 be clear by
this time that If We spend our lives
not doing 'hings We Will never make
any real progress.
While Moses was negative. Jesus W"
positive. and when tho Church catches
up with thc Sermon on tho Mount;
when can find one scctarisn who
knows the real meaning Of The utter
succ Tho kingdom Of heaven hsr'
monvl is within YOU" then | will 20
back to church. and not before. no"
many Of your readers SNOW the follow
irc facts:
That Confucius announced the Golden
Rule nearly a thousand years before
tho Bible. IN Its present fern, was ever
heard Of.
That Jesus laid down tho true iaw o.
evolution. ard wha; ths; Law ~,
How many know shat Socrates. Con,
fuciuS. Bgddha. Jesus, Mohammcd sno
Others Of lesser note Verc cNperts !"
the master sc,crcc. which. By The way
is utterly unknown 10 any OF our "sefs
Of learning: or that Nohammed gss
tho frSt Protestant. and NOT Lu'h>r'
That tho missing link" a the Spin
Of woman ard that her Awakening ,no
matter what she IS asking for y n.
most signiicsa, in the history OF '"'
race
That we arc living in universe so.,
crned by immutabic laws. and VINO G.
name even one law that IS universe
i. G.. whose operations &C diseernlo.,
in both the v.Sibl" and invisible res,m.
That man is possessed Of a srifh-h
eye that corresponds with the sAsS5
sense known 10 eNi,; IN dogs GAYS s"'
migratory birds? .,.n,
The foregoing questions. Mr.. hu''..
ere fcw Of like character thSt AZ,
pressing Tor solution, and sooner -"
later they mast be faced. COSNVS'
New York, June -, 1914