Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-07-29
RELIGIOUS MICROBES
A Bunch That Is Endeavoring to
Exist on the Religious Bodies
of Monroe City People.

Man is religious being, and lar
be it from us to say anything that
would destroy or hurt his natural
inclination to worship God. This is
his highest privilege and duty, and
we rejoice that we live in this age
and in a free country where every
man can worship according to the
dictates of his conscience, and our
observation is that people are open
to the truth as taught in the Word
of God, even tho they have settled
principles by which they worship,
and great fundamental truths that
are the foundation of their faith
There never was an age when peo-
pie were as open to friendly and
brotherly presentation of views of
other peoples as they are today,
and this accounts for much of the
confusion that exists; people 90 to
hear some supposed new truth hon
estly, and the first thing they know
religious microbes are of the differ
ent kind they thought they we're,
in the place of building on dead,
i. e., people dead to God in their
sins, and destroying the works of
the devil, they are often trying to
undermine the faith of other religi-
Gus bodies and are sending their
poisonous teachings into organized
churches that have been the light
of the world for centuries. They
will tell you that they come to de
strOy the works of the devil and
logically according to their teach.
ines) all of these churches are the
works of the devil, for they and
they alone are right. and if they are
right all the churches and believers
of Monroe City are wrong, for they
do not teach the gift of tongues
foot washing, loud hallelulahs, etc.
; and if the churches as represented
here are wrong then our Statesmen,
as Woodrow Wilson, Bryan. McKin.
ley, Garfield, Harrison and Wash.
ington. the great statesmen of ouI
christian civilization was wrong
for they all belonged to some
church represented in this town
then our great writer's, as Lonefel
low, Emerson, Holmes and Fields
were wrong; then our great college
and common school system il
wrong, for they were founded b!
the churches represented here il
this town; then our Sunday Schools
and Young Peoples societies ar,
wrong, for they were founded b!
the churches represented in oul
town; then your industrial system
IS wrong, for it was founded under
|, our civilization that was foundet
by the churches represented here
then your missionary work is wronl
for it was founded by the churche.
+ represented here, and is led by suct
men as John R. Mott, Ellis, Camp
bell, White, besides the great mel
of each Board of the variou,
churches as represented here. You
whole structure stands or falls OF
this proposition: We comelto destro,
the works of the devil, and we ar,
the only church, therefore thes
Others are the works of the devil.
Now, we said that we are willinI
. for people to come and preach ant
teach the truth as they see it, an,
let other peoples beliefs in religion
alone, but we are not willing tina
people should come into our mids
and ridicule. belittle, and TRAD
other people for their belief, an,
be called unbelievers, without de
Tending ourselves, and we shall no
e. enter the theological side here, bu
look into the more ridiculous phas
of this question. Manv of us sav