The Penn's Grove record., 1916-05-26
SPIRITUAL LAWS IN LIFE.
The Different Mental Conceptions Of
God and Different Method Of
Worship Causes Much
Controversy
CAN THERE BE A UNITY IDEA?

rights to expound the gospel and after
they are gone many Wonder where they
are at ~religiously, especially when their
tests make marionetts for martinez meth
DDS.
The days of strenuous religious contro-
versy in past and newspaper ethics now
! pass in silence that which is disapprov-
ed. Because SO many numbered among
the converts are gone when the personal
influence of the evangelist and their
tests of emotionalism are gone, although
not a theologian, we venture to give some
opinions.
The Bible is the only book which tells
of the origin, aim and end of man and
sets forth a moral code for ways of liy-
ing. 1t can be applied to all people,
in all chimes, at all times.
In the Friends Yearly Meeting in
Philadelphia last week DR.. Jesse H.
Holmes said People must be prepared
to drop non-essentials and a%ntiquated
methods. Each generation must serve
its own generation in its own way"
Newell Dwight Hills, the famous
Brooklyn divine, successor to Henry
Ward Beecher, says: Every man paints
his W picture of God, and every man
makes his own f~uturity through fear or
force. But Jesus taught US first
that God is not a Governor, living for
law and justice, but a father living for
His children. He governs His children.
JeI and Paul. by reason and love-
THE RELIGION OF IMPERIALISM.
Until the past two hundred years the
world was governed by monarchs, kings
and feudal lords. Most literature, both
secular and religious, was written with
fawn;ug f~lattery to gain the favor of
kings and God was pictured as a mon
arch, king or feudal lord. Those who
promulgated new ideas were at first
considered crazy. Many were imprison-
ed BY Calico in 1910, in Italy, for de-
claring that the earth revolved around
the rAn, a newly discovered scientific
truth, or like John Bunyan, the Baptist,
for declaring a-sysfeHa of worship off
ferent from the legally established
church, mostly for which reasons put
forefathers came to America. KIT ~
When Christians became so numer-
Gus as to command respect and Con-
s~tantine in $50. after his conversion
used the civil powers to overcome the
brute force of pagan man, he served best
his own generation. The monarchial
machinery of the old churches claiming
apostolic succession, and also the coloh-
lists in America in making the code of
Moses the civil law, did wisely in their
generation. because illiterate men had to
be governed mostly by force and fear
the doctrine of the Old Testament. But
as intelligence and knowledge became
more generally diffused it took bloody
wars to gain freedom for men to picture
in their own minds the image of God and
the right to worship in their own meth
DDS.
The Spanish missionaries who took
the gospel of Jesus, the Christ. to Mex
leo hundreds of years ago. did Gods
work wisely in their generation by erect
ing the largest cathedral in Mexico City
on the site where thousands of persons
were sacrificed to the sun god of the
Aztecs. The sun woCshippers were taught
that human sacrifice was abolished and
nc longer necessary because the life OF
Jesus, the Christ, was sacrificed for all
who believed in human sacrifice. The
sun worshippers were given a tribute by
calling the Jewish Sabbath Sunday
Likewise the moon wOrshippers were
made to have a fellow feeling by a day
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ests were made to have a fellow feeling
by naming Wednesday and Thursday af
ter their mythical gods of war;, Woder
and Thor.
The Levitical laws prescribed one
tenth of the harvest unto the Lord. WhC
was the Lord? Sarah called Abraham
lord. The word means the suppler o.
bread. The Jews were the first and only
nation to worship the true spiritual God
and he was pictured in their minds az
the patriarch at the head of the trib'
who gave bread. He not only CAV
bread but wa the governor. representing
the state; the educator, representing TIL
teacher, and also the preacher, represent
ing the religion. Giving a tenth woul'
represent today all that is given for tn
government. education, religion and legal
lied b~enevolence and charities.
The patriarchs of the tribes were sue
ceeded by judges and then kings. Whel
the church was separated from the stat
the ecclesiastical powers claimed one
tenth of the poor peoples income an
t the kings and their r~etinues also go
heavy tributes. 1t is the exacting o
) the tenth in Mexico and the 4 'onarchia
E picture Ok Sod in the mindsJ he Ger
mans which is causing two 6 the great
. est wars in history. One hundred an
/. twenty-five years ago France had a
I bloody revolution because the peopl
were ruled by feudal lords who exacte'
r by unequal laws unjust tributes from tn
people. After different political war
: and revolutions to throw off the ideas o
i kingcraft France became a repubh
. which is at enmity with the monarchia
, ideas, both politically and religiously
, Hence Germany sought to crush Franc
: because Emperor William believes in tn
!, divine right of kings and that be is dc
ing Gods will by attempting to force
, superior civilization, in his estimatio