Evening journal., 1916-01-06
The LAW OF God
Sermon preached in the Tabernacle
last night by Or. Lyon.
Continued from Page Thirteen.

Continued from Page Thirteen.
suasion. Moral suasion is a good thing
when it works, but like some other
things it does not always work. There
are times when good switch win work
admirably in enforcing school discipline
No system of education can be effective
without authority and order Whenever
there is difficulty in the school, there
is tendency upon the part Of SO many
parents to take the side of their children
against the teacher Parents stand by
the teacher. In ninety-nine cases out
of a hundred, where there is trouble
between the pupil and the teacher, the
teacher is right and the pupil is wrong
ii the teachers cannot keep order, turn
them out, but when they do stand by
them.
This disregard for law and authority
is evident also in the nation at large. SO
long the shibboleth of our civilization
has been personal liberty that now
the pendulum has swung to the other cN-
tremc, SO that liberty TO do right Is
being interpreted as license TO do wrong
An lrishman, landing at castle Garden,
asked a policeman. "Have you amy laws
in this country, any government hereT'
"Ccrtainly,n said the policeman, "we
have laws and government Then he
replied. 81 am agin 'em."
Supposing a fellow half drunk some
afternoon goes down a crowded street
with a club in each hand striking out
right and left, and he hits your wife or
daughter or sister. You grab him by
the collar and say, you cannot do
that" Then, deliantly. he roars, Il am
going to DO as I please. You cannot in
ferfere with my personal liberty" There
as no term in all Of our language that
the devil is using just now to accom-
linsh more of his devilish work than this
expression. personal liberty IL is
nothing more than sugar-conted anarchy.
just the other Sunday afternoon a
woman anarchist in Chicago, IN public
nddress. advocated free love- IN the guisc
of personal liberty. "Nhat govern
ment." said she. "has a right to dictate
to me upon what man or upon how many
men / win bestow my favor and alice
tionsg This present domestic idea OF a
man and wife is tyranny and destructive
TO individual freedom
Are people so blind that they cannot
see that there can be no real liberty
without law? Remove all legal restraint
IRON our civilization and the resulting
anarchy would soon beeet tyranny A
few wears ago the mayor of Chicago sent
n request to the general passenger agent
OF a great railroad for transportation TO
New York city for a committee upon
official business. The passenger agent
bluntly, almost insolently, refused the
request. The mayor took peculiar
method TO bring him 10 terms. lie sent
out an order TO police headquarters that
all policemen should be removed from
that railroad station. Within two hour.
this news went all over Chicago and
pandemonium roigned in that depot. The
crooks and harpies and thugs gathered
there like vultures TO carcass. Mel
and women were knocked down and rob
bed The property and life of every pas
senger going through that station wa
threatened When the news reached th
Office of the general passenger agent hi
'phonc got busy. lie called up th
mayor. "How much transportation wa
IL that you wanted to New York; III
send it over at once. Put the policemen
back on duty at the station
But you say we are not living unde
law now but under grace. But what o
that! The grace of God does not abolis
the law any more than building tn
second story ON house does away wit
the first story. We talk about breaking
the law We cannot breaN the law, tn
law remains inviolatc and unbrokcn. tn
offender is really the one that is broker
not the law. If you are governed b.
grace. you will keep the law, not fror
compulsion, but from choice. III an eagl
in n harn-yard used merely his feet, h
would be confined by the fence the sam
as the fowls, but ii he uses his wing
the fences have no effect upon him.
when YOU use the wings of grace, yo
mount up above the law. This does NO
destroy the law. for when a law is vic
lated it is just as much in effect as eve
il was.
Did ON ever think of the intimai
relation between anarchism and ath,
ism? ! do not say that every atheist
an anarchist. but I do say that ever
anarchist is an atheist. When ma
tries 10 dethrone God il is but a shoi
step down TO try 20 destroy all huma
authority. ] am no pessimist Thci
never was a time in my life when I ha
more faith in God and in man than