The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-12-12

any laws now on the statutes of this
or any other state. If the rich rake
can marry good girl after damning
himself in the eyes of the Creator
and not damn himself in the eyes of
the church, the church has no ground
for picking at the present system.
First cast out the beam out of thine
own eye."
Pressed into it's last analysis there
are thousands of couples living in
adultery today, many of them recog-
nized as good and great" citizens,
and not few of them are shining
lights in the churches. And in many
cases one of them is entirely uncon-
scious Of the position he or she is in
and is not guilty under the moral
law because of this fact. But the
young man who has been a rake can
not marry without committing adul-
terry if he is to be judged by the Bible
standard, and the woman who mar
ries him knowingly,or who can within
reason determine for herself that he
is guilty in fact, is not free from
the sentence proposed in the law. And
the individual or organization who at
tempts to set aside God law for man
law is guilty of a very grave error
the extent of which no man can tell.
The Hebrew nation set up one
standard for the Jews when dealing
with their own people and another
when dealing with the "heathen," as
they are pleased to denominate them.
But we know the end of the Jewish
people as a nation. And when they
attempted to set aside law for the
saving Of a few headstrong boys, to
the disgrace of heather girls, and
vice versa, they were in the end
forced to pay an awful price for
their duplicity. And they did in no
way serve the God of whom they
gave to the world comprehensive lip
service in this matter.
Many people become so imbued
with their own goodness and wisdom,
and the goodness and wisdom of peo-
pie whom they are serving idola-
trously, that they soon get to de-
manding that all else of the world
give credence to their sayings, do
ings, and wishes. Some people have
become so self-centered in matters of
marriage and divorce that they can
see nothing right or honorable out
side their own beliefs and teachings.
You must look through their glass
and at the same angle that they tilt
it, or they cannot admit that you see
correctly, or peradventure, that you
see at all. But this is not fair either
to you or to themselves. And in the
long run they injure themselves Just
as much as they injure you in be-
coming SO insistent.
Paul says, "All things are lawful
unto me, but all things are not ex-
pedient." It may be possible that the
world has progressed so that early
laws OF marriage are no longer wise;
we don't know as to a certainty. But
does anyone else know to a certainty
Isn't it a fact that a man or an or
ganization is taking much upon him.
self to attempt to say definitely? 1t
is one thing for an Individual or Or
ganzation to suggest that this or that
is wise or definite, but quite another
thing to insist that drastic legislation
be enacted declaring ii to be so.
But now here comes an Inter
Church movement and the men who
become part of it wish to use the
power which such an organization ex-
poets to have in doing this very
thing-say no one but those whose
lives conform with Bible teaching
may have divorce, or marry if the
party receiving divorce for grounds
leaves them without partner. It is
perfectly proper for the church to
take action against it, and to forbid
it's ministerial members to perform
the ceremony under those conditions
But to use the power of the church
to close other recognized doris, the
party or parties having right in law
is going a long way and we doubt
if the Creator will give His approval
even if man-laws are so made.
It all harks back to an attempt on
the part of the individual to say thai
laws that existed for thousands oil
years were wrong; to say, in effect
that millions of people did in fact live
in adultery. 1t means, too, the clos.
ing Of the door to people who have
made mistakes that cannot be for.
given. It puts church people in 9
peculiar position to, say that people
may be forgiven their evil deeds ano
be saved-go' to Heaven when they
debut that salvation does not anC
cannot fit them for honest life for the
remaining years of existence here be.
low. They may, through repentance
become good enough for heaven, but
not good enough to live here below
with one of the opposite sex. Pretty
weak dope, we take it, but just what
certain people wish to cram down the