The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-09-16
OUR RELIGION
And OUR HOMES
WILL BE DEFENDED BY ALL
AMERICANS, REGARD
LESS OF CREED.
ARE NOT POLITICAL ISSUES
SociaIistic Doctrines Seek to Destroy
Both Church and Home
Life.

That the churches, which seek to
make moral appraisal of all social
and economic movements, is now pre-
senting strong front against the Non
partisan League leaders, is a hopeful
sign, and incidentally an evidence that
the church is not asleep, as some
claim, but keenly alive to all issues
which affect human welfare, and
ready also as in other days of her
glory to present united front in com.
batting common foe.
Never can the Influence of the
church be underestimate in the solu-
ton of social and moral problems, and
because every economic problem today
is shot through with neral and spirit
ual elements, when the clergy and
churches get the proper grasp Of these
questions they will find speedy solu-
ton, and one too, according to the
highest standard which can be applied
Needless to say, this will be the
New Testament standard, which after
all is the only one the church believes
in.
For this reason the church as a
whole is lining up solidly against the
rampant socialism of today, seeing in
it the greatest menace to home ard
church that ever assaiIed their DOORS
For, socialism today is essentially
goddess, daring to mock God and say
ing with Karl Marx, sthe father of
modern socialism: "The idea of God
is the basis of a perverted civilization,
and this idea must be destroyed"
No less deadly is the teaching of
modern socialism concerning the home
and family. 1t laughs at those old
fashioned virtuss which have ever
been the sure and strong foundation
of the modern home, and if home is
disintegrating, it is because these prin-
ciples of eternal worth are being re-
moved from it's foundation, and a rot
ten materialism built into it instead.
According to the socialist philoso-
ply, the present form of marriage is
one of the great obstacles to social
reform. August Bebel, one of the
great lights of socialism, says:
Human beings must be in a
position to act as freely where
their strongest impulse is con-
cerned, as in the case of any other
natural instinct. The gratifica-
ton of the sexual impulse is as
strictly the personal affair of the
Individual as the qualification of
every other natural instinct. No
one has to give an account of him
or herself, and no THIRD person has
the slightest right to interven-
ton"
This is the teaching of SO per cent
Of Socialists today. With the same
percentage boastfully atheistic and
blatant abusers of the church and re-
ligion, for the church to remain neu-
iral on this question of socialism which
affects our very life is criminal. 1t is
also to be swept away in the over
whelming floods of goddess mater
lalism.
Feeble attempts have been made to
show that Jesus was Socialist. Moth
Ing could be farther from the truth,
and He Himself would be the first to
reject the teachings o.. modern social
Ism and His anger would flame against
1t as when He attacked the errors OF
His day. Christ taught the Sacredness
Of property; He forever sanctified the
home and family by being born of
woman and becoming member of q
Nazareth family. One of His last acts
on His cross of blood and pain was
to provide for the care of His aged
mother by committing her to the per-
sonal care of His beloved disciple, st.
John,
Christ honored the family, knowing
1t was of God, and any teaching which
tends to break home ties, either by
the annulment of the. laws of inherit
ance or otherwise, strikes directly at
Him and at His teachings
1t is poor thing to substitute an
economic or political platform such as
socialism is for spiritual principle.
What Jesus taught was stewardship,
not socialism.
1t is because the Nonpartisan
League is really form of materialistic
socialism founded on the MARKHAM
Idea that the church is uniting to fight
1t. This fight will be waged with in
creasing might and courage, until this
dread menace of socialism, whether
called by Economic Determinism, Non
partisan League or any other name,
Is put to rout.