Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-23
NATURE NEVER IIBERAIIZES; NEITHER
CAN MAN CHANGE ITS LAWS OF BEING

Just as nature does not liberalize
her program, so man cannot change
itS laws of being. that which fed
years ago will continue TO be
strength to the body, the religion
of yesterday is the religion OF to-
morrow and Christ will continue
to be the remedy for sin as long
as the world endures, was the bur
den of the sermon delivered this
afternoon by Rev. Billy Sunday at
the tabernacle on Liberalism.
Continuing he said in part:
THE truth is fallen in the
street" In one sentence the proph-
ct Isaiah described the age in
which we live. Truth was intend
ed to nourish the brain not to
cling like mud to the feet Wheat
viii not grow in the mud and filth
OF the street No one ever saw a
sun rise from the streets OF a city.
How can the conscience get light
from God when the Sun of Right
eousness, the Truth about God, has
fallen in the street?
The pulpit which becomes an
echo of the theology made in Ger
many is fallen in the street. Ger
many, which reduced treaties to
scraps Of paper long ago reduced
the bible to a scrap of paper and
Jesus to a bastard. Every phase
Of modern doubt came from Ger
many. American theological stu
dents learned rationalism there.
There they learned the agnOsticism
which says that because we do not
know all we cannot know any
thing.
There is no liberalism in nature.
Seeds grow today under the same
conditions as at the beginning. The
sane elements that consti ute food
and drink will constitute food and
drink for ages to come.
We came into the world through
birth processes that are unchange-
able. There is no evolution in the
methods of death.
How can there be a liberalism In
religion if sin and the tragic con-
sequences Of sin never change? To
liberalize the marriage relation
means to have a plurality Of wives,
means to add a harem. Poligamy is
marriage liberaIized. Liberality in
love means a ibertine.
No merchant or bank or business
enterprise would permit a clerk to
liberalize values. Imagine a lib
eral police force, that means a city
with the lid off. A liberal fire de-
partment would mean to let the
city burn Imagine the liberal use
of a knife by a surgeon.
Tr,oESnn Tnn+hnF nanhinO hnF
daughter to be liberal IL her NOR
ais. Liberality in love means the
redIight. Imagine a railroad liber-
aIizing it's schedule. Each engi-
neer runs his train according to
his personal opinion. The modern
agricultural college does not seek
new ways of planting corn. There
is only one way of planting corn.
There is only one way to plant
anything, that is the way God
planned it in the beginning.
Christ Remedy for Sin.
The bible teaches that Christ is
the remedy for sin. The pulpit
that breaches a liberal religion
gives people African sleeping dis
ease and they perish miserably.
You cannot change the nature OF
serpent's eggs by Matching them in
a robins nest. When a, man
breaches humanitarianism, prog
ress, culture and sociology as the
way of salvation he is the DEVILS
pasture. Imagine man preparing
to deliver an address on interna-
tional peace to a man strapped in
a death chair with only 80 seconds
to live.
Every physician knows that ma
ture never libera1izes her program.
A mans body contains a certain
number of bones, muscle and
nerve. Physicians invariably give
the same treatment for the same
trouble. The medicine of God is
like food and drink
There is no liberalizing a medi-
cal remedy to suit man of the
goth century. The blood of Jesus