The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-05-07
Rufus King, American Statesman.

April 20 is the anniversary of the
death of Mr.. Rufus King, in 1927.
The writer bravely says in these
pages if we do not produce better
men today, nobler men, men of purer,
higher motives than political adj
vancement or self-aggrandizement in
this American Republic, we are lost.
Disintegration comes slowly as it eats
its way into the body polite. Having
reached a vital point, decay sets in.
The only way is to cut it out with
a knife! Cut out the cancer of po-
%litical %chicanery, bribe-taking, party
! pledges" campaign funds and cor
ruption. Cut out the nee while
yet there is time to preserve the sa-
cred old traditions transmitted to us
from our forbears-before the over
whelming seventh wave (there al
ready have been three waves) of Rus
sion anarchism, the ungodly against
Christianity, the socialism of woman,
occupy the steps where Washington
and Putnam stood and beat back roy
al d~espotism. -
We have written of the noble,
clean, upright and able life of Will
lam Rufus King. What is the matter
with 'today's retrocession? For one
thing, the Infamous emigration laws,
letting in the Republic of filthy Ori4
entails from Palestine, Russia, all
Europe, whose morals are those of
rabbits-both men and women
whose creed is Make money any
how, but make it," whose Talmud
o~ch~;Aa c fhn ch1oCtrr Corfnpnn t6If
is not wrong to cheat a GENTLE" Let
in the noble Jew, the upright Jew
there are such-but in Gods name
exclude all, both Jews and Gentiles,
who would ''use" Uncle Sam for ne
farious purposes and overthrow the
government when they "got good and
ready.S
The ways have come t O the point
when the great cry is going up, as OF
old, "Who is one the Lords side?"
You cannot chum with the devil and
sit down at Gods banquet. Choose!
Many grave men, serious philoso-
piers, belive that the last great fight
is coming, and is very near, when the
ungodly forces of the earth plan to
line up to unhorse, if possible, Chris
tianity. They cannot 1t stands
written: THE gates of hell itself
shall not prevail" But what time is
there to talk Of Low Church." and
High Church." and ~sectarian inter
probation of Divine Truth, when there
is so much to be done in the world
for perishing humanity? How alb
surd to retain the cry that Paul re-
+buked with his pen of irony, Il am
of Paul" and Il am of Cephas" and
81 am of Apollo.
The Sermon on the Mount took
twenty minutes to deliver. And not
twenty men on Gods earth have ever
lived it's tenets, so simple, so divine,
so world-cleansing.
The Interchurch World Movement
is taking a step in the right direction.
The only fundamental is the belief in
Jesus Christ as the Son of God. " Our
Lord never founded a church as
we know it today, with its fabrics,
and laces, and ornaments and high
salaries-while the faity can scarcely
make both ends meet. On the con-
trary, He said expressly to His apos-
ties, "Do not have two pairs of shoes,
nor two coats, nor take money in
your purse. Thus, heal the sick,
cleanse the leper, cast out the devils,
raise the dead" And thus only! The
modern church" will never do these
necessary things, with it's enormous
expenditures for music and flowers
and services and bowings.
The only salvation nov for the
world is to bark back to Christ's SIM
pie plan. There is no other way-I
N. O. States.
A cross, sickly baby suffering from