Arizona republican., 1917-06-18
MOLOKANS ARE
 CENSURED FUR
 COURSE TAKEN

 day morning on the subject of Chris tan Citizenship. After the preliminary service, in which Roy Null of St Louis gave violin number accompanied by the pipe organ, the pastor read as his text from the thirteenth chapter of Romans. and said in part as follows:
 It is supposed that the letter to the Romans was written in the year 5S, about four or five years after the edict of the Emperor Claudius. by which he banished from Rome all Jews, and as many would suppose. Jewish Chris tans as well. The Jews being a nation of patriotic and home-Ioving people found it most galling to submit to Ro- man rule, and therefore disturbances often arose, and the authorities. to rid the city of the element which so often caused the unrest. banished by imperial decree every Jew from heY midst.
 This edict including Christian Jews, and other Christians some of whom refused to obey the mandates of the decree, brought the Christians before the authorities as objectionable citizens and the great Apostle. learning of this state of affairs. took the matter in hand and wrote this splendid letter. which no doubt fell under the eyes of the emperor and to which no one could find objection.
 AS ChrlStlan men, the place of the civil government is not one of our own making, We are expected to accept the laws of the land where we hold cit izenship and support them. The church has declared it's position on this sub ject in the following words:
 We believe it the duty of Christians. and especially ministers, to be subject to the supreme authority of the coun- try where they reside, and to use all laudable means to enjoin obedience to the powers that be, and, therefore it is expected that all our preachers and people will behave themselves as peaceable and orderly subjects.
 Duty to Obey the Law
 Tt is sometimes asked if the magis- trate is an unworthy man, should Christians obey the orders given by him? To which l would answer, yes, insofar as the order does not in any way violate the constitution. It may be that a ruler is unworthy in his per sonal and private life, and yet he may be good prince, or ruler, he may be a good man in his personal life, and yet a had prince or ruler.
 King Saul, the first of the Jewish kings was not a bad man in his per sonal life, but he was not good king, he infringed on the terms of the con- stitution which he was expected to rule, and became deposed king. James the Second was good moral man so far as we know, but he endeavored to alter the constitution and became a bad prince
 George, the third king of Great Britain was a good man, favored and enforced orders against immortality. and even profanity, and had he been as averse to war as he was to these other fhincc ho har Iii in whom there was no guile
 Rulers Have no Divine Rights
 Tt is not that rulers have a divine right to rule. there was time when such men as Moses, Joshua and even the judges of the Jews, ruled by rights and selections, but that was not con tinued. and no man has any right to rule over people today when that people does not desire his rulership.
 After all that may be said as to the ruler, it is the constitution which he supposed to see is followed both by himself and his subjects.
 If the directions given by this great church leader was by divine inspira- tion, and as it specifics that every man. be suhiect to the higher powers that are ordained of God, then it is not expected that he will cross himself by giving to a select sect by special rev. elation any order contrary to the one herein given.
 The acts of the Molokans, a religious sect of Russians now living under our constitution and enjoying all the rights and freedom of American citizens, on the ground or claim of special revela tons to the end that they are not to be subject to the powers ordains of God, is the height of presumption, and should not receive any sympathy at the hands of the law
 State Falls From Within
 To grant to them or any other sect special privileges would be an act vfo lating the provisions of the constitu tion under which we, as a nation, live and of which we are proud.
 The state. like the home if she falls and decays, will do so from within and not from without. in other words, our internal, un-American clements threat en our disruption far more than our national enemis.
 We may have national enemies, those who lust for imperial dominion, but never can they destroy us, so long as we Americans are one.
 At this time when we are facing a world power, power thirsting for the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them it is no time for any Amer
 
 soil. and enjoying American freedom and rights to inveigh against the gov ernment and the rulers of our land.
 If any should think for a moment that anything less than world power is behind the action of the German inn perial government, then he has not read the books and kept in touch with the movement of that aggressive people,
 Seek World Power
 Otto Richard Tennenberg in his book published in 1911 the title of which was Greater Germany the work of the Twentieth Century says, We must leave nothing to the vanquished but their eys to weep with" The Pan- Ger man Union published a book in 1895 under the title of Greater Germany and Central Europe in 1950," says, Germans alone will govern, they alone will exercise political rights, they alone will have the right to become land owners, however, they will condescend so far as to delegate inferior tasks to foreign subjects subservent to Ger many
 On October 1, 1900, William IL said, May our German fatherland become in the future as powerful, as wonderful as was the Roman universal empire; and may this end be obtained by the united cooperation of our princes, our people and our armies
 On May 20, 1915. the League of Agri- culturists, the league German Peasnats, German Peasants, the Central German Manufacturers union, the League Man ufacturers, and the Middle-Class Union of fn ilf