The log cabin Democrat., 1921-07-29
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{An address delivered by Doak s. Campbell, president of Central Col lege, at Reeves Schoolhouse, July 23.)
 Psalms 8:1-6: "Why do the heather rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take coun- sel together against the Lord, and against His anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away. their cords from us.
 "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure:
 "Yet have set my king upon my Aoly hill of Zion."
 While this psalm was written for the purpose of setting forth the or der of the establishment of the king dom, of which the crowning glory is in the enthroning of Christ, still it Provokes great deal of thought as touching our modern problems of so- eiety. It is very modern in it's ques- .tioning, and sufficiently modern in it's solution to the problems which it sets forth.
 One of the forces which tends to distract mems minds and to lead them astray in ther thinking is the desire Go find something new and up to date. There are many who think that the religion of Christ is out of date and must be supplanted with another re- igion, another system which will meet the needs of the thinking men of today" Those who clamor for an up-to-date religion with all modern conveniences know little or nothing about Gods word, and hence are un. able to see that it is eternal in it's scope; that it is made to apply to men of every day and generation.
 The period of reconstruction which the world war has ushered us is em- phasizing> more and more the futiiity of any other means of regulating the lives and actions of men and wom- en- Probably the word which is most used in America just now is recon StrHction.' It means everything; it means nothing. To some it means the process of lowering the prices of Ehings we buy and the raising the prices of things we sell Getting back to normal conditions means to a great multitude of people simply the vsd5usting of financial affairs so that Everybody will be pleased. Many have memories so short that they think we had such a state of affairs before the war.
 This reconstruction covers a wide field, indeed, it touches every soul in the whole world It involves the financial activities to be sure. But then there are added the political the social and the religious, together with all other activities connected with living. Each phase when viewed Saone seems to be important enough to require our whole thought. Each seems, if solved, to be powerful enough to set the world right.
 Is reconstruction really a problem Look about you. I am sure that you will all agree with me that we need financial reconstruction. Our bank: and other creditors will bear abundant testimony to that effect. Many of u; are kept in such straits that w scarcely know there is any other pro b1em besides the financial one. I'm whole world answers the question concerning the need of political re construction. Politics have never bee more uncertain and more powerles 1o set things right than they are to day. The political party which take Iyto itself the responsibility of set Epg things right politically has as sdmed task by no means desirable
 Do we need religious reconstruC tion? Is social reconstruction prob Sem? Look about you. There ar srultftudes of heresies being foiste upon the people in the name of reh zion. Imposters of every type ar poisoning the minds of men and wom en with the deadly venom of so-calle, religious teaching. Whole communl