Imperial Valley press., 1921-09-15
MORAL STANDARDS
CANNOT CHANGE
5 AVS De YIN F
(By Associated press)

! LONDON, Sept. 15-Moral stan
dards Of the present day, changing
from the simple code of our forefath-
ers, are 'excrescences growing out Of
the war" declared the Rev. DIR. Ebert
Robb Earring. editor of the Northwest
ern Christian Advocate, Chicago, be-
fore the Fifth EeEnenical Methodist
Conference here today. SIT is apassing
wave from which," he said, I'VE are
slowly but surely emerging"
DR.. Earring, in his address, referred
to the pleasantly which passed be-
. tween a Chicago and New York
daily paper many years ago when
Chicago was developing the sky-scrap-
ing habit. Chicago twltted New York
Gil the fact and the Herald of that city
replied that there was no city on the
Western Hemisphere that needed its
sky scraped worse than Chicago.
"Since then scores Of cities have gone
into the skyscraDing business" con-
tinued the speaker. .'ln the spiritual
meaning Of the term we must all
scrape the sky to get correct idea
of moral standards.
'The true moral standard is un-
changeable. 1t lies like Il great snow
capped mountain range across the
horizon. 1t cannot change. This moral
mountain range which has set the
standard for all time sustains the same
relation to the moral Word that the
Himalayas do to the physical earth
''Attempts have been made to sub
tttq4 E-14 "a ~,
awhile you hear of new set Of Cons
mantlmCnts. Men of different profess
sions have issued Ten Commandments
/ have read Of Ten Commandment for
husbands, for wives, for students and
even school children. Revisers have
even gone into the field of the New
Testament and proposed Beatitudes
different from those laid down by our
Lord. All these attempts are futile
and insignificant compared to the
mountain range formed by the first
Ten Commandments let down out of
Heaven through the medium of Moses
Thev cannot be improved upon.
"Our conception of moral standards
is changing. We are today in the
trough of wave The war upset
everything. toppled cur moral as we'll
rs our intellectual and physical stan
dards. We have not recommended to
keep house. Thus there are certain re-
trogressions that are greatly deplored
and which some fancy are perma-
nent lowering of the moral standards
These are but eXcrescenceS growing
out of the war. Such q horrible pro-
gram as was projected upon the world
could rot but leave in its trail a sor-
did conception of morals. Thus, in the
matter of family ties, of physical
habits, of our amusements, we find
people indulging as they have not done
for many years past.
This is but q passing wave. Even
now we are emerging therefrom. Our
conception of the neral standard is
lifting. One CT the most hopeful
phases of this development of a moral
ideal is the application Of the principal
of Christianity to the great world eff
industry about us. There is no cues
ton but 4hat we have larger outlook
III this field than ever before.
"But the world has become compli-
Gated There is no simplicity, Every
th;ng is Interviewer. cnmeshed. No
man lHeth to himself and no man
dieth TO himself in any sense what
ever. Once upon time we cid not
eaee how a man made his money Just
so he distributed it properly. Now we
are not so anxious about the distribu-
tion of his money as how he made it.
4 have great hopes for the futura
The moral standard is lifting gradu:
ally. The line marked upon the side
of the great and eternal standard set
by Christ Himself is gradually mount
ing. Some day-but not now-we may
reach the tip of the standard"