The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-12-23
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By C. T. Rawalt.

| BY Z. L. Rawalt.
Some days ago we read the following in paper com
mentng the remarks herewith quoted:
This opinion is expressed in The New York World OF
some months ago:
Tine fy
the morning. said that in spite of the 5000 years OF
ing and preaching by Christians the world presents
sight which does not call for rejoicing by either the sin
Can that the present condition Of Chris %
tendon is triumph for the power Of regi9ny Does @
which both Jew Christian stand?"
The utterance of this Jewish Rabbi certainly con-
ains food for thought We recall reading many state
the past few years from both priests and
men that the world steadily growing better. We
have doubted that statement and muled it in our
mind many times Reading this utterance by this Rabbi
we lead to ponder what has really been accom-
pshed by the hosts of chrstendom for the real better
of the world in the past 5000 years. the deduc
tions not encouraging
About 1900 years ago there born into the world
from yery humble parentage for utterly dsbeleve
the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception the most
perfect who lived this terrestrial sphere
We 90 have cotbe Jesus of Nazareth with divine
origin, any than any other of woman, to ap-
precate his marvellous goodness His purity shines forth
like the in heaven and it is in nowise strange that
perfect character should become endowed by the
perstitious with divine origin. This early taught
philosophy of the purest He popular with
the that and in his early youth he disap
peared for considerable time During that period his
tory, both sacred and profane is silent his dongs
However, upon his return notice. he changed
except that he broader visione and
in his previous views. He butchered please the
privileged class of his day. but from his birth
day criticise justly Jesus.
So perfect this that tremendous religious cult
subdvided into hundreds if thousands of creeds,
breaches him as divine and the only fit example for hu
manity in general
But how we to account for the fact that with
this almost universal acknowledgement the merits and
excelences of following Jesus, have very little of
it in actual practice?
We have just emerged or rather are emerging from
the most colossal of the ages During war
preceding it, the priests preachers were practical
unit IN advancing propaganda Of hate and urging their
Pensioners to don arms for this that Of the
struggle each being governed absolutely what was de-
sired by his particular Can anyone imagine
Jesus taking such for either? At time during
MS life did he give the slightest evidence that
lived in this he would have found himself in
Federal prison he citizen United States or
if domciled in Germany suppose he would have been
drafted and if he did not fight would have been shot
The world is not growing better. 1t is as Solomon
said growing Wiser and Weaker might well have
added wicked
Today saturnalia of crime sweeps the country The
are loaded to the margins with stories of murders
oooeries assaults arson and every conceivable form
crime Men, more or less able try anayze the reason
Some charge it to unequal distribution of wealth and in
slight degree they right Others see in it an evil
aence OF industrial unrest and they too partially
s", nut tne real underlying cause is deeper finds
ts chief cause in the fact that past five
every pulpit paper every street has
Deen devoted to preaching gospel of hate and passion
fer to the war such utterances would have
as peacner VINO made them and individuals papers
would have been vastly unpopular if thew followed sh
course Indeed they would likely have been prosecuted
1or their offense In other words prior to the war we
were weakly and feeby following Jesus but with its ad
% we aeserted him absolutely for the time being and
Iohowed his antithesis, the devil
Now we reap what we have sown. For over four
years we taught people to commit crime They be-
came saturated with it, 1t cannot be stopped in mo-
eh'. IL Will take many, many years overcome the
vile teachings of the past four
IL much easier to start people wrong than to head
them OH and get them the right road again 1t will
~ A. 'ne preachers century to undo what they
pished in the past four of five years
Inc outlook is not encouraging, but there is but one
way out and that to rapidly as possible resume fol-
,owng .he tenets OF the best guide we ever had-the
Lowy Nazarene. w
MUST BE BOLsHEvIkIs UP THERE
Ihose who have heard of the great which