The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-10
DEDICATION SERMON AT PRES
BYTERIAN CHURCH.
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of God and as His brethen. In His
teachings are found the foundation
stones on which is reared the superb
super-structure of the universal
brotherhood of man. In establishing
His Church, He gave it representa-
tive form of government, a govern
ment of the people, by the people,
and for the people.
Throughout the whole course of
the Christian Church, popular edu-
cation has been the hand maiden Of
religion, Christianity has ever sought
to bring knowledge to all of the peo-
pie regardless of their social or finan-
cial position.
The world has looked upon this
claim of the Church for democracy
as an Utopia. The two opposing
schools of thought have been arrayed
the one against the other, democracy
on the one hand and autocracy on
the other. They were sharply de-
fined in the recent war and were
voiced the one by the President of
the United States and the other by
the Crown Prince of Germany. The
Crown Prince, speaking for auto
cracy, said, "The submarine is the
last argument of Kings" Our dis
tinguished President met his chal-
lenge with the declaration that the
world must be made safe for demo-
cracy. The battle was long and cost
ly, but it has favorably determined
the issue. Democracy lives and
reigns. Thus the Church stands vim
Dictated in the eyes of all civilized
men.
DR.. Van Dyke happily puts it thus
But that was long while ago;
God said, 81 an tired of kings"
And meantime man said, "No-'
/ 1 like their looks in their robes and
rings"
So he crowned few more,
And they went on playing the
game as before,
Fighting and spelling things.
Man said, 81 am tired of kings,
Sons of the robber chiefs of yore
They make me pay for their lust
and their war;
am the puppet, and they pull the
strings;
The blood of my heart is the wine
they drink.
I will govern myself for awhile,
think,
And see what that brings"
Then God, who made the first re.
mark, smiled in the dark.
II. The Church has sponsored the
Sabbath day. 1t has taught that
when God created the world
He rested on the seventh day anC
hallowed it for all time; that HI
placed the obligation of observing
the seventh day as a day of rest anc
worship in the very bosom OF thu
moral code known as the Ten Com
mandments and has written it IL
the human constitution; and that M
nation can permanently endure tina
disregards the command to remembel
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
The world in it's Godlessness ha
maintained that this contention OF thu
Church was an effort to foster upol
the world its unreasonable require
ments which the world has delighted
: to speak of as "blue laws. TIL
ungodly have maintained tina
the developments Of science have beel
such that the world has outgrown tn
, old Mosaic requirements and that w
have gotten beyond the necessity o
having to give God one seventh o
!, our time.
In the beginning of the war, on
own government was disposed to sc
, aside the Decalogue: The emergenc.
, of the hour seemed to demand tina
! employees of the government SHOULD
labor seven days in the week, wee
,, in and week out. We had not gon
far, however, before the ship build
ers underwent a radical change o
! srvIrp !,
order that workmen in our ship yard
, should rest every seventh day, an
, from the White House went forth tn
, word that all government official
should, as far as possible, observe tn
= Sabbath day to keep it holy. s
z again, the war has indicated tn
= Church.
III. The Church has been mos
pronounced in her denanciation of tn
liquor traffic and in her advocacy Q
the temperance cause. It has elaine
that intemperance IS turning til
: blessings Of God into curse,
curse to body, mind and soul; thu
the liquor traffic is the avowed an
: aggressive foe of Christianity an
v does more than all other forms {
: evil to defeat the work which til
- Ids III dhO III
9 traffic is an economical waste Of bot
: food stuffs and man power.
y The friends of the liquor traff
: have met the claim of the Chure
: with their plea for personal liberty
q They have held that men alwa.
have drunk intoxicants and that the
d. always will; and that it is the inaliel
i able right of every individual
: drink or not drink as he pleases, az
Is society has no right to interfere Wi
IS his pleasure in the matter. At Il
e outbreak of the war it was conf
e IDENTIFY affirmed that to take intoz
r. cants away from the people would n
the laboring man of his efficienc
> and would be the occasion for rio
e many and Bloody.
But behold, what has happen'
g Our government, that has long he
e the stars and stripes over the accurs'
# liquor traffic, giving it protectit
- while drawing from its accursed CO
y fers blood money to carry on it's 60
'e ornamental work, drew lines aroul
about its environments and made it u
lawful to sell or give aWay into,