The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-10
[Edito nal Comment
on Current Subjects
WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE
SAVED?

WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE
SAVED?
From the Manufacturers Record.
Ii is a good thing that men wht
have been summoned to leadership II
world affairs at last are turning aside
from their own vanities and out o.
the ruin OF their own futile devices are
, lifting their eyes at length to the skie:
! and raising their arms in supplicatfor
to the Divine Being from Whom only
| can come, in this hour of the worlds
trial. safety for humankind.
t.Is true democracy to survive, or J:
mower In so.called democratic coun
tries to pass into the hands OF q de
| termined minority that knows what u
wants, and is always the same-loot
! that knows how to get 1t; by bribery
perhaps; by blackmail, perhaps; b.
Terrorism, perhaps, or by subtle cor
ruption? And whenever that question
has to be asked in any nation, be
lieye the true answer is this: 1t de
i nends whether majority OF your citl
zens are subjects OF God Almighty
Maker OF Heaven and Earth, or wor
, shippers before the false gods, the
satanic three, money, personal pleas
ure, power"
Sir Auckland Geddes is right. He
knows. The rebuilding OF the deYas
tatod temples OF civilization could be
brought about only by the Master
Architect. 1t was He who from chaos
nodded earth into form, and 1t was His
omippotence and His perfect knowl'
edge that threaded Tor mankind the
way through countless centuries into
fine era of still more countless bless
ings now subject to the summoning
OF the human hand But when the
councillors and the advisers, the e&,
merits and the statisticians, into whose
hands the Almighty had confided the
keeping of the victory which he anu
He alone had given, they swelled them
selves with pride; they. turned their
hacks ON God; they refused to have
anything to do with Him, and they
wrote on their own tablets OF ignor-
ance their stupid maps and specilica
lions. God had made the world, but
they would remake it.
NO man-made cdicts can control
time. 1t sweeps on without let or him
drance. It's verdicts only are impair
tial: it is the one sure acid that can
teSt the intangible metals or dlplo.
macy. 1t is Gods great historian. Anu
1t has written so that all men may
read the everlasting TACT that they VINO
counsel without God, God does not
counsel with. They build their houses
on the sands. Today they are; tomor'
row they are not.
Ii is q good thing, therefore, that
after so short space OF Goddess cove.
nanting and devising, with a world all
upside down and mems hearts hard.
cned against, each other, with hate
abundant and love commercialized, at
least some of the leaders, convinced OF
their own immaturities, turn now to
infinite knowledge, acknowledge their
own impotence and proclaim that in
God only and religion is there hope fol
those who inhabit the earth.
The thought that Sir Auckland
Geddes has put into words is not new.
Adam had it--after Eden. 1t is no.
new, but there is in it the everlasting
truth OF the ages. This nation and the
other nations may shut, Ii they will,
their eyes to God and be mute before
Him. they may make their multitude
of laws and statutes, their wage agree
ments and their covenants; they may
compromise their hates and formulate
their truces while they organize new
onslaughts against each other; but
there is no peace and there will be no
peace until fear of God and humble
ness before Him displaces in mems
hearts the greed and pride that now
control item.
The Decaloguc is civilizations Mag
ma Charta: the Sermon on the Mount
its divine code OF law.
In that great convention and assem-
bly, OF the business brains Of America,
which met last week in Atlantic City.
men, practical men, did not feel
ashamed to confess their impotence
and acknowledge that the time had
come when God and God only coul9
give salvation. They have wrestled
with fact and they know.
Until religion becomes again the
actuating power in this nation, and in
all nations; until our reliance Is once
more on the Divinity, as 1t was in the
days OF our fathers; until We cease &c
look for new and human formulas foE
safety and return our allegiance to the
great principles OF conduct which
omniscence has laid down; until we
learn over again that our boosted free
dom is subject always to the discipline
Of the Almighty and we are really free
only in obedience; until these things
be, strikes and hatred, famine anc
flood, disease and blindness will hurry
to ruin and disaster and the whole fab
rio of civilization as we have known
it will tumble into the abyss. The
savage beasts will crawl through oul
uninhabited cities, and where nations
were, barbarous tribes again will pi!
their trades.
Civilization is always on the preci
pice Of the Dark Ages. Not more d..
pendent on the dynamic power Of its
throbbing engines is the aerial vehicle
than Is our lightly.supported system
OF civilization on the eternal vigilance
of those who inhebited it and their con
firmed allegiance to the religion anc
Cod that made It possible.
What the world needs is obedienc,
to God.