The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-01-15
Religious
Spiritual Leadership Coming.


Spiritual Leadership Coming.
The leadership of tomorrow will be
less and less the leadership Of the war
rior.' says the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
New York. I'm the very face of the
naming terrors Of the old world let us
reassert our faith in God, our convic-
ton that wars shall cease. Militarism,
destroying nations, blighting every fair
n lovely thing. must.now destroy it.
self. Nor will tomorrow's leadership
be, centrally, that of the merchant, the
manufacturer and the financier. Amer
lea has long been righteously impatient
of this tyranny. Nor will it be pri-,
marily the leadership Of scientist and
scholar. 1t will be p~re-eminently a.
spiritual leadership. Signs and tokens
OF this leadership Of the spirit have
already appeared. America leads the
world in missionary effort, in Sunday :.
school ministry, in Christian Endeavor
activity, in Young Mems Christian as
sociation work, in Christian education.
in the crusade for social purity, in
temperance movements and in general
philanthropic effort. These are out.
ward evidences Of the deepening spir-
itual life. But the greater day is
dawning. When weakened, humbled,
crippled nations shall lay down their
arms the call will come, such a call as
the world has never known before"
Aold Eaa$ - Tho Cnod and Tom.
"a number Of things are combining
to expose the weakness and folly Of
the SO called new or modern theology
says the Presbyterian Of Philadelphia.
"One of these exposures arises from
the fact that people are beginning to
see that the things which claim to be
new are Did. Some Of them come from
early Christian centuries. Like the
many attempts to supplant Christ's
deity with a tawdry honor, the effort
to maintain IL future probation is at
least older than the thirteenth cen
fury. The unbelief in the Scriptures
goes back to Voltaire and Tom Paine
and even as far back as the garden Of
Eden. Another cause of this change
is the failure Of the new theology to
satisfy either heart or head Of to
give anything either for the temporal
or the eternal interests OF man. The
reasoning of this modernism is not
firm. the conclusions vary widely. and
the whole camp is divided into petty
contending schools. 1t therefore lacks
unity, organization and force"
Persistence Of Sin.
4 person whose ancestry is free from
color blindness never exhibits 1t. That
is the dictum of the latest science on
the subject. We cannot dispute the as
s~ertion, for we have no information to
the contrary. We only remark, says
the New York Christian Advocate, that
it suggests n theological analogy. Why
do people show q fondness for sin?
Because they have inherited the taste.
Put into dogmatic p%arlance the origin
Of sinful propensities as a detail Of
heredity is offensive to some minds.
But why Is it not IL rational explana-
ton Of q race wide mystery? The
newspapers tell us every morning that
man is an inveterate sinner. He keeps
at the business Of transgression with
amazing persistency. How are we to
account for this: 1t does not pay him.
Yet he perseveres in it. Well, he was
born with the disposition. and only the
grace of Goa can cure him Of it. 'ln
Adams fall we sinned all" said the
old primer of theological lore. At any
rate. we shall be forced back to the
beginning Of the ace to find the start
ing point of %humanity's errancy. A lot
Of truth we dreamed was obsolete
comes to life again under the teaching
OF physical science.