The Penn's Grove record., 1916-08-25
CHRISTIANITY and POLITICS
Industrial Necessity Makes The
Prohibition of Intoxicating
Liquors AS a Beverage
A Live Issue
AN SERMON
RECORD TEXTS

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us. Acts 16; o..
The Sunday School lesson last sun
day was about Diana of the Ephesians.
1t told what "A great controversy was
raised when st. Paul introduced the
gospel of Jesus the Christ into Ephesus.
not only because it destroyed the wor-
ship of Diana in Pagan mythology. call
ed the Goddess of Life who was wor-
SHIPPED with the vilest debaucheries, but
also destroyed the market for the sale
of silver images of Diana, from the
sale of which drought no small gain
unto the craftsmen"
The mob for two hours cried out;
Great is Diana Of the Ephesians.' The
tow clerk told the people who were
about TO mob Paul and his helpers that
they were neither robbers of churches
nor hlasphemers of their goddess and
if Demetrius. the manufacturer of sill
yer images. had a matter against Paul
and his fellow Christians. the law is
open for their consideration.
Some time previous Paul had a Wis
ion of a man from Macedonia. and pray
ed him. saying. Come over into Mace
donna and help us When a certain
damscl possessed with a spirit of divin-
dhIbIl. NiitH VI pbSul litI lldSltI llilltH
gain (being Il fortune tellerl accepted
tie teachings of Christianity. her mas
ter had Paul and Silas. with many
stripes. laid on them and put in prison.
The idea is that the teachings Of
Christianity and the advancement of the
moral principles of Godliness. making
the Spirit Of the Word active in the
flesh. upscts somebody's business and
destroys their means Of gain. In Mace
donia it destroyed the gain of masters
who had slave fortune t%ellers. In
Ephesus it destroyed the business Of
silver image making. In Rome it des-
troyed not only the sacrifice of human
beings to Sun Gods Of the Pagans, but
stopped the sale of wives. children and
captured enemies as slaves. When Tele-
machus. the Christian monk. rushed into
the gladiatorial arena to separate the
human combatants who fought to amuse
the multitude and was killed in 325. the
heroic act led to the abolition of human
sacrifice to amuse the people and also
put a stop to the belief that it was
necessary to sacrifice enemies to APP
pease the wrath of superstitious Pag-
an gods.
For hundreds of centuries the Gen
tile and Pagan world has been strug-
Cling upward by accepting the moral
code of the Jews and the divine spirit
of Jehovah as manifested in the flesh
of Jesus of Nazareth. called Christ. be-
cause he is the greatest teacher of Life.
Truth and Love. the power and attri-
butes of the infinite God. the Great
Spirit to whom the American Indians
appealed for guidance.
While the slaves in the British EN-
pire were freed by n decision of the
Court of Chancery. it took a bloody war
to set them free in the United States
and prove that this is an indissoluble
Union of indestructable States. 1t has
taken fifty years for the last greatest
fire-eating Senator Benjamin r. Till
man. to come to the conclusion that
might made right in that contest. With
in the past month he said in the L. $.
Senate:
Il never believed it possible that /
could do it. but slowly and by degrees l
have come to think that it was best for
all concerned that the South was defeat
ed: and for me it is a marvel to my
self. Slavery was a curse which had to
be destroyed ere the South and the
world could advance"
Politics is the science of government.
As truth has been revealed to the
minds of men, either by thoughtful rea-
soning, by the thunder of the moral agi-
tators on mental hard pans. or by the
sword and bullet. the principles of love
for the brotherhood of man nave been
enacted into statute laws. The old
Testament doctrine that the Jews had
no moral obligation to advance the
cause of humanity outside of their
household of faith has given way to the
Christian idea that character is model
led on the belief that man is called not
only to obey the Divine Code given by
Moses, but to cooperate in each new
age for the moral advancement and re-
generation of mankind.
Laws have been enacted to care for
the poor. and afflicted in almshouses,
hospitals and asylums, through public
taxes. Not only that. the legislatures
in recent years have enacted laws where
the employers of labor are held respon-
sible for the i|njuryof the employees, if
he proves to be physically and mentally
deficient. That causes the employers of
labor to observe what makes the en-
ployees less competent. physically. men
tally and morally competent to perform
labor. and what causes the necessity
of maintaining them in iails. hospitals
and asylums by compulsory taxes en-
acted because of Christian benevolence.
Less than two years ago Congress
enacted a law forbidding the sale of
cocaine. heroin and laudanum to the
public because of the self injury to a
few. Nineteen States have prohibited the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors as a beverage because of its
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