Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-18

existence,
| or how7
All the mere dresms Of modernism" the proudly
announced world-peace, the brotherhood Of man"
humansm noarnate. super-culture. scientific organ
zauon OF human life the will worshipplng "superman
and superwoman." the race-wthering ''feninisn"
philosophers that out-menknded mankind and literary
esthees that gorgeousy sucked all the marrow out OF
total life In night all colspses Gorgeous irony
remember the mastery demonstration of President
Jordan OF California before our ctys Commercial club
on the commercial and every other kind Of imposs-
bihty or great European l thought at the time
as weighed his 'modernstic' arguments: Master
mind OF contemporaneous thought you have forgotten
to reckon with the chief in the problem namely
the perverse human heart. And he had 1t must
seem to him and all other pacfcists a bitter disiliu-
sionment Of their optimistic world view.
Once again. through times mlleniums sounds
the cry of the Kingdom Of Cod Sin is peoples
struction without God In the world" again Il is
shown to be without hope in the world" The bald
materialsm OF the eighties and nneties softened anil
corrupted into the neurotc "superman" culture Of the
last decade The old giant nations OF the earth have
had internal spasms of fearsome unrest long long
The "superman' cries Of the late German philosopher
Nietzsche. and Of the army Of Nletzsche-agents
Strauss in music Ellen Key feninisrn for instance
have really been paroxysms OF the soul-ilfe not sim
ply expressions OF life. In fact there been such
rich expressing OF life that furously wished
but not owned. Men cried Peace, peace" though
there was peace Once again the eternal truth Of
the Church and its Word OF God lives FORTH that with
out God, mems ways and mems culture perish. Where
the little silly fances Of Bernhard shaws
the Strndbergs, the Brandes the Nietzsches the
Haeckels the Maeterlncks the wild and the wild
women OF femnism, these leaders a corrupted civ.
iEation and culture that defied long but now
no longer? The wonderful literature. music. educa-
tion science philosophy social dreams OF peace
brotherhood. pleasure organized into system
cial prowess In mighty Mammon worship the great
est century Of human history?" oh, heart would
break as we see this broken reed of human de-
pendence on humans pierce the hand that has leaned
on II as stay perpetua The cuture-drunk and self
drunk age in day undeceved disillusioned
maddened with disappointment, paralyzed in fear,
grim. bloody nhuman tger-lke in purposes The
great and grand superman Of history theoretically
and then ferociously eoapses into the long-dreaded
world war" We turn from the Church OF Christ and
ask the sceptics and culturists: Where your
gods7 And we hear Elijah on the breese-swept
! heights Of the Carmel OF modern" culture haunting
the Baalites Of the twentieth century: "Cry louder
cry louder" for Baal may perchance be asleep. on
journey. too busyl
wars must come when nations begin to forget their
God No culture saves from that Wars always
came when niquity ripe II arguments OF peace
fail arguments OF chastisement may not
The French era of the eighteenth century, in
| vital aspects so akin TO refused the eternal
| The Napoleonlc age followed and seized upon the
hearts OF nations, wrnsing earnestness from them
who had been giddy toward the eternal The present
oolapslng era had dnned Its denias into the OF
the world with deafening Cultured immortality
preyed tho world literature this last decade and
! was the fashion of the day Neurouc. spasm-like.
wtlfu heedlessness carried the masses bodily And
| now the voice OF the Mighty of Nations speaks in
Establishments For the cultured idolaters Of the age
may tAunt Gods goodness. His lash win not taunt
What sorry anRchronlsm what out-of-date expector
alton is not the emasculated speech OF oscar
Wilde C'saione), Bernhard Shaw and the rest of the
loud "supenman" tribe!
world peace" without God peace truly the din of
battle the broad fields OF Europe Is the ironc reply
in massive historical Developments to mans vain i'm
aginngs. When God wtthdraws His hand from a God
forgotten Il totters and reels and falls. Col
lapsing modern culture-marvel that It. did
lapse before! The inner parts OF the structure
aarningly decayed glorious as many forms OF mod
ern" culture were But lie the heart back culture
that after all IL the worthfu and abiding thing II II
be corrupted the culture itself Is little worth. This
era falls 'and the fall OF that house great" IN
the words OF our Lords parable The most cultured
nations and the barbarous make ''ententes with
srewsome harmony OF action England combining
| with Russia, for nstancel Instead OF the natural
alliances. say Of the Germanic nations Of Europe.
have bastard combination ana resultant brutal hor-
| rors SO colapses the glory Of modern culture"
The idoiatry OF modern" culture had grown sue
cossfuly defiant toward all Christian truth. SO the
| sceptics undermined faith in God The atheists
towers OF Babel The effete cuiturfss Eorged them
selves with tho honey OF In philosophy. in
art in literature and education. in religious teaching
In ideas of home and marriage. sex and love. in all
forms Of life the elegant OF Christian truth lifted
na cracked volaire-like voice and laughed Its cold
laugh. When mems hearts taught cultured
blasphemy. thing modern culture has been guilty
OF for soon generation, then culture itself last
| turns men into tigers There is nothing erueller
than culture" German has we'll said. The OF
vOltaie and Thomas Paine before the French revolu
ton and the commercial 'superman" closing
and collapang through the European struggle, were
both OF them OF cuture-idoatry. They prepared
directly for national horrors. Culture alone makes
men cruel Culture without saving faith In God
natures the spirit OF fsFocity in
Once more the earnest preaching Of Gods word has
been scientifically demonstrated truth. Once more
the Christian and Biblical view Of human life ami
national existence is evidentiaiy proven. Once
soeptcism overculture idolatry OF mans power and
progress and worship before the shrine OF the human
heart crumble They tailed TO do in all
periods Of oVerripe self-dependence The serptural
Church of Christ has majesteay proclaimed this all
} along. In all ages OF human history the culture
a.