Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-14
CREDO.

Secular papers have neither the
 right nor the desire to dictate to the
 church how it shall conduct it's af;
 fairs within the limitations it has
 set for itself says the Commercial
 Appeal. They deal with society as whole and are interested in all that aIfects 1t, either for good or evil Even the clvll law Will UnIy presumo
 wnen appealed to, to say to the regulatlons as they nave Deen maue 4A an autnorltatlve way.
 The church Is one of the lnst,tu- tons ol soc.ety beng pernaps second only to government Tn the extent to which 1t 1iils the pubic eye; and the ! secular press is concerned for It's purpose and that It's influence TOT good in society shall be unimpalrea, either from without or witnln it's ( lo.ds.
 America has from the beginn. .ng
 
 tan nation, the supreme court on more than one occasion having form ally decided that Christianity IS a part of the common law of the land. But to one whose perceptions are de- vetoped to moderate degree even it is apparent that if it was ever en- titled to such a designation, it is no < longer so. The fact is too patent to neca any argument.
 When Wili.am Howard Taft was president, distinguished Amerlcan travellers visited the potentates O. some of the rtibes of North America, one of whom said to him, as report ed in one our leading publishers. "It puzzles me to understand why you Americans spend such vast sums sending missionaries to Christianize my people and others whom you re- gard as pagans, when your own great chief does not beheve in your God. The writer signicicantly comments: "I was speechless."
 Christianity has unquestionably been the greatest civilizing influence the world has known and for that reason, if no other, it deserves to be respected by all men. The church is the mother. of education; and she has forged the weapons which her own children have finally plunged |into her heart.
 Il Within recent years one of the Reading magazine writers conducted 5 personal investigation of the in- ktruction given in number of the leading colleges and universities of the country, and he published the ssresult under the striking title, Blasting the Rock of Ages" alleg ing that without exception those in- stitutions were assailing the Bible and much that has hitherto been re- garded as fundamental in Christian doctrine. So far as known, not sin gle note of denial has been heard.
 The creeds of the various Chris
 
 chief points of attacks. Those great confessions, wrought out in the ex perience of the fathers, presumably under divine guidance, are the most friendless things, in the world. Yet many of those who openly attack and flout them took vows more sol emn than any secular oath to de- fcnd and maintain them. Hand one of the perjured gentlemen copy of n creed and request him to roint out its errors and he becomes covered with confusion.
 s One of the modern developm ents is to decry the church and exalt the Kingdom of God, the latter to be im- posed upon the world en masse, de- spite the fact that Jesus Christ, ! whose example and precepts it isl claimed are to be followed, Himself ! said of the kingdom of God that lit is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the the whole was lcaven- ga ]" Even an ignorant person knows that lcaven transforms one particle of meal at time; and the Savior in His own ministry gathered His fol- overs one by one.
 The claim is pressed in this new lay that Christianity deals with life, |he life that men are now living on ne earth. To be sure it does. But 'ne with only half an eye can see hat if it did not more certainly deal with the unseen world, which we ap- 'rehended by faith alone. that itsil otarics would desert it's altars and