The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-31

Maker Why this from our pulpits?
Can it be that the power of money
has so reached out that it is felt in
our churches. and that the money
changers today have gone back into
the temple from which Jesus Christ
drove them? Or can it be that char
acters like Judas Iscariot have taken
on the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in? Why, in my own town, the
capital of your great State, the Sab
bath day is desecrated in the very
shadow of your capital building, with
in the easy hearing of your governors
mansion, and in the very sight OF the
Christian peopls going to their
churches. We see there every Sunday
the most damnable decorations of the
day that Christ has commanded us to
keep holy. What did he say? Six days
shalt thau do all thy labor, but on the
seventh thou shalt rest. They tell
us that this does not apply to war
times But surely in any times Christ
could never have contemplated such a
violation of His Sabbath by so-called
Christians as we see there in Colum-
bia. Crime is rampant all over our
State. Murders, rapes, arsons, thefts,
perjuries, and every crime known to,
the law, are being committed day by
day, until it has we'll nigh reached
the point that the farmer is almost
afraid to leave his wife or daughter At
home by herself; we are almost afraid
to leave our own domiciles, which are
supposed to be protected by our great
laws, unless we have doors and Win
dows locked and barred. And yet We
boast of law and order.
What Is Law and Order?
81 want to ask this question o.
YOU. please: What is law and order?
I shall not answer it, but if the pres
ent administration of affairs in this
State is law and order,' then hell has
been mispainted, for it must be a par.
adise.
What is religion? shall not an
swer that question, because l have
been taught, as you are teaching your
children today, in their Sunday
schools, that religion is a belief IN
God and in His son Jesus Christ, and
the keeping of the ten commandments
that have been handed down to US;
and speak to people who know what
religion is, and that religious peo-
ple dare to live what they believe TO
be a religious Re-and it is for yoh
to answer the question for yourselves.
"Now I ask you an even more seri-.
Gus question, in view OF the signs OF
the times, and it is this: Is money and
the power of money throttling CXrls-
tianity? I tell you, with shame, tnas
is the tendency. I 80 into the church
es and see men sitting in the honorea
nlaces. and hear men leading people
in prayer to their God, whom / kno"
personally to be violators OF both the
law of God and man. Further, L Know
that it is getting to be the generai
consensus of opinion in this country
that some of the leading church
members are the worst men IN the
church, and that they simply use their
positions in the church to furtner
their financial interests in the Voria.
# that be true, my question is, an
svered. and it behooves all true
Christians Immediately to get busy
Reverting back to these matters ID
connection with the war situation, the
speaker said:
Wine Out Political Powers.
"In my opinion, the only way to re-
ceiye relief is to wipe OUT OF PolAIf0ai
existence the present powers that De-
I do not ask you to share my oplnlon'
and I am not speaking for any party
nor for anybody but myself. Every
senator of these United States anu
every congressman of these 'onltea
States. who voted to put this country
into war, and at the same time Foteo
himself from the draft, is a coward
and will be so known in all time 70
come. If he had been a brave man.
when he voted for this war he Wouia
have resigned his seat, tendered MS
services to his country, and gone 70
fight for her, as he was forcing sne
other man and his children to 90. III
vomr own State your governor lay
down like a coward that he ls-ano
hove said 80 to his face and am taxing