Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07

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|ties. "A bad democracy is more dan
e9gerons than a bad autocracy. ana q
had state of anarchy is worst OF all.
This important truth would have you
Observation-Disclosures 1t in your
thought: Nations are no stronger than
the intellectual and religious life of
the common people.
The Chief Corner Stone.
Three corner stones beneath any
just and stable government are the
Christian home, the Christian church,
the public school. We must not sur
render these ideals in favor of great
apartment hotels, sissyaed private
academies, and social clubs and fra
ternities. There is vet to be mention
ed the chief corner stone, Christ Jesus
Without Him no structure is com
plete.
In the city schools i have watched
Tony and Sambo and Abraham and
Sandy and Micky and John Alden and
Bridget and Dorothy and Gretchen
and Rachael playing together. We
knocked their heads together n told
them to get acquainted. They learned
to respect each other and to regard
the rights of all. The great expert
ment in world democracy, a fedora
ton Of nations, was tried out in the
American public schools,-AND 1T.
WORKED! There were no religious
or political or racial barriers. BE.
CAUSE IT WORKED THERE IT
WILL WORK UNDER SIMILAR IN
STRUCTON AND LEADERSHIP
AMONG THE NATIONS. But there is
only one way to bring it 10 pass. the
process of an enlightened Christian
education, the spreading of those
everlasting principles of Gods law
that have made our nation what it is
today. All honor to the public school
teachers who are today doing this
splendid service to the nation.
Era of Internationalism.
Democracy is now entering upon an
era of internationalism. The process
Of emancipation has been a long and
troubled way, winding across the cen.
turtles, amid blunders, t~reachery, su.
prostitution and war. First came re-
ligious emancipation, achieved, how
ever, only in part, by the Reformation
and the Renaissance. Then came POI
~litical emancipation. States began to
see the light of freedom. The United,
States led the way. The c~ontagion
spread until even Germany began to.
fear for her national existence along
the old and cruel lines OF feudal au-
tocracy. Today governments are go.
ing to have to render an account to
the electorate.
The theme is barely opened for
consideration when we reach this
point. 1t is the starting point in all
our reconstruction thinking. The old,
old Gospel the worlds need,
today as always. IL solves every prob
lem. The message of Christ is pow
erful to save When He said, 4And
II, if I be lifted up, will draw all men
unto me-" He was giving utterance
to the most significant and far reach
ing political and economic truth spck-
en- during the history of this bleeding,
laundering world. Not having Christ,
the other three corner stones already
mentioned avail very little.
He is needed all the way through
the extended series OF human relation
ships. In your own individual life
struggles, you may have anarchy. des-
|potism or government by consent Of
the governed following gladly the
perfect Pattern given upon Us in Him.
The same is true of the family. You
have there the epitome of complex
national life. The family is the group
unit, Just as the Individual is the final
and sacred unit within the precincts
Of the primitive family group. There
would be no divorce proceedings III
Christ were enthroned within the home
He is the chief corner stone there, and
without Him the best OF people will
have 9 difficult time getting along 10
gether.
Applied Christianity.
Make the application in business,
II the municipality, in the county, in
the states, the union of states. the
family of nations. The Word Of Gnd
is the progressive revelsstion Of His
perfect Law. Christ u the perfect life
in harmony with that law. II all 1.-The
people 81 the world were good Chris
tan people IT would not matter SO
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