The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-08
4'CAN MEN Be MADE
MORAL BY LAWT
DR.. STUARI'S TOPIC
Until All Men Are Brought
On to Higher Plane, Pro-
hibitory Laws Necessa-'
ry," Says Minister
EXTERNAL REMEDIES
USED IF OTHERS FAIL
|" Thou Shalt Not Must Stand until
4 Do Not Desire To- Takes
Its Place


by laws, or make them good Withou'
laws. or shall we throw away the laws
and go without them, are some OF the
questions TO be considered in discussing
this subject said DR.. Stuart in opening
his remarks.
"If man don't want to do right, can
YOU make him? Can you make him 90
right by law? suppose a beast does not
want 10 stay in certain field where
YOU nut him. can you make him stay
there? You can If you make the fence
hog tight, bull strong and horse high
The internal motive is the best, but II
YOU can't get 1t that way, you must
apply the external If bull dog won't
whistle and pat and wag his tail, then
you will have to use the club
QUOTES SCRIPTURE
DR.. stuart quoted the following verses
Of scripture TO supstantiate his argu-
ment
From Romans, xiii, S-s-l0: lowe no
man anything but to love one another;
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled
the law.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adul-
terry. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not
steal 'rhou shalt not bear false wit
ness, Thou shalt not covet; and II there
be any otner commandment, 1t is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself
Love worketh no i'll to his neighbor;
therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law.
From Matthew, xxi, 81 to 40: Jesus
said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and with
ali thy soul. and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great command
ment.
And the second is like unto 1t, Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as myself
ION these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets
Much is being said and written to-
day." said DIR. Stuart. concerning law
as an agent to produce moral character
Half truths like half brick bats are not
fit for much except to knock somebody
down with The above passages Of
Scripture teach clearly that there may
come q time in everyones life when the
law, which Is the lower motive for con-
duet, may be replaced by love, which is
the higher motive. There are two meth
DDS OF government, an external and an
internal one. The internal method OF
government is higher than the external
When men are uncivilized and vicious
or ignorant and immoral they must be
governed by the external law because
the internal appeal is not sufficient.
MAKE MEN TO SEE
when men can be lifted into the
higher realm where they can see the
right, know the right, and love the right
more than they love the wrong. then the
written law Is not necessary for their
government. they may be left to this
higher law, the law OF love. If a woman
is ignorant. vicious. and incapable of
motherly love. laws are necessary that
she may not abuse and murder her OFF,
spring If mother is intellectual and
moral it would be unnecessary to make
a law for her to feed and clothe and
care for her children. for she acts on
this higher internal law. Laws are made
for the wicked. they are not necessary
for the good When a man is intelli-
gently and morally honest 1t is not neces-
sary to say to him; Thou shalt not
steal If a man has reached that high
altruistic moral condition where he in
tellectually and morally and really loves
his neighbor as himself, it Is not neces-
sary to say to him: Thou shalt not
KILL
children obey your parents, honor
thy father and mother are necessary
laws for childhood, but when young
man who has been carefully trained by
the laws and rules OF the home, has
been taught obedience and respect for
parents, and led step by step into the
higher moral state. at q 1t is not neces-
sary to say to him. Honor thy father
and mother He would fight for their
honor. or would die for their honor.
LAW A SCHOOLMASTER
"I.aw is a school master to bring us
to Christ. In our lower immoral and
irreligious state law is necessary, but
when we are brought into the Lord Jesus
Christ and our souls are brought into
harmony with him and his law, when
We have been taught to know and to ap-
preciate our relations to our fellow man
and see these relations from this high
moral standpoint, or when we come into
the estate referred to in the text, where
| we love the Lord our God with all our
hearts with all our minds and with all
| our souls and our neighbor as ourselves,
| then we DO not need law. As long as we
ride on the earth We need bridges and
trestles and ratings, and guard walls and
signs at sharp curves. but when we take
the airsnip these are not necessary.
1.-The law saith the Book. is
| school master to/bring us to Christ, but
having known him, the love of Christ
constraineth us. AS long as the world Is
| full OF ignorance and wicked and vicious
people, we not only must have laws. but
powers to enforce them. Thou shalt not
steal, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not
bear false witness, thou shalt not COM
| nit adultery. Honor thy father and
mother. remember the Sabbath day to
keep II holy. These great laws cannot
be ,abrogated until the world is brough,
Into the higher moral condition where
Ithey act from high moral principle with.
lin. Moral law is but the outer frame Of
moral conduct. Lave is the fulfilling o.
tine filling full. and when loves work Ii
| complete the outer frame is. lost sight Of
I but not displaced. Ii is unseen. but Il
stands Love does not violate law. but
ifulfills law. Human nature rebels
! against law The carnal mind is moi
subject to law. neither indeed can be-
THE faint OF SIN
''The faint Of sin has given us a .bia:
| toward evil We are rebellious, but Wher
I've are brought to the Lord Jesus Chris
! our natures are changed. We pass from
death unto lie We pass from the car
nal to the spiritual we pass from exter.
lnal law to higher internal motive.
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