Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-23

/, Christ is just as completely the
ironclad law regarding mans sal
walton. The physician says, at is
not reasonable that a wicked man
be punished in the future" yet if
his patient does not take medicine
he tells him he will die.
The doctor says, Why don't you
evangelicals and you liberals get
together?" Well. why don't you
aIlopaths and homeopaths yoke up2
severe and that you should preach
that God is love. When a man
breaks his leg, instead OF making
him suffer to set the bone he seats
himself on the floor to tickle his
patients feet.
There are diseases that the ply
stefan cannot cure, blood poisoning
in its last stages, consumption,
cancer, leprosy. But Christ as a
remedy for sin has never failed.
No one ever dies in despair and
fear OF the second death who cries
to Christ for forgiveness of sin
Christ is the only remedy known
Liberal Religion.
ern and need a more liberal relig-
ion, but the law does not become
more liberal in these modern times.
Instead of liberalizing the laws we
are adding to them and increasing
the penalties.
A prison is a prison. There is
no difference if in the penitentiary
OF today we put libraries, pipe or
gans and tennis courts. We don't
liberalize the stone wall and iron
bar. The man with a life sentence
suffers today what the prisoner did
in the Roman dungeon.
Some college professors are
cIam0riug for a more liberal Chris
tianity and vet an entrance exam
ination today to Harvard. Prince
ton. Yale or Cornell is equal to a
college education of a generation
ago.
Some professors taunt the evan
gelical pulpit with being literalists
in expounding the bible, but he is
a Iiteralist in the laboratory and in
the field OF historical research. He
holds no personal opinion.
What the microscope whispers in
secret he proclaims from thS
housetops, through the scientific
magazines. He says: You preach
ers are too narrow" Yet he CLUES
himself like sealing wax to the OBJ
scure revelations of a blowpipe
Tho educated man when burned
with fire or sin suffers the same
physical and moral consequences
as the most ignorant aborigine.
Crime in any of it's phases has
the same tragic3l effects on men
regardless of their varying degrees
of culture.
If in nature and morals and Law,
ishment, sin and results, make no
difference between men, how can
you plead for a liberal religion?
A grocer liberalizes his scales
at his peril. Let the bank take
bar of gold and attempt to make e
few coins. Let the manufacturer
make his own postage stamps. Let
the moonshiner make whisky.
1t is true that the evangelical
church has many inconsistent men,
so the ocean contains seaweeds.
That does not prevent the ocean
from keeping the rivers full. It is
the ocean of evangelical Christian
ity which fills the rivers of civil
fzation with peace, joy and hope.
Gods word is the compass. To
take your personal opinions as
guide, is for the pilot to throw
away the compass. No man ever
became a liberalist or a backslider
unless he first kicks one Of the
from under his
feet.
When a man denies the author.
ity of the bible and Christ there
are still two authorities that he
recogniZes-the penitentiary and
the electric chair.
The liberal church says: I'VE
have no quarrel in our church.
Nor do they in the cemetery-and
for the same reason.