The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-15
new STANDARDS
MORALS RAPED
BY M. E. MINISTER
Editor of Church Paper Tells To-
don Meeting That Morals
Are Interchangeable

Lcndon, Sept. 15.-Moral standards
of the present day, changing from the
simple code of our forefathers, are
'eXcrescenes growing out of the war
declared the Rev. DR.. Ebert RobE
Earring, editor of the Northwestern
Christian Advocate, Chicago, before
The fifth Ecumenical Methodist Con.
terence here today at is a passing
wave from which, he said, we are
slowly but surely emerging"
Dr. Earring, in his address, referred
to the pleasantly which passed be
tween Chicago and a New Yorl
laily paper many years ago when Chi
3ago was developing the sky-scrapina
habit. Chicago twitted New York OF
he fact and the Herald of that cit,
replied there was no city on the west
9rn hemisphere that needed its sky
icraped worse than Chicago. Since
hen scores of cities have gone into
he sky-scraping business" continued
he speaker. I'm the spiritual mean
ng of that term we must all scrape
he sky to get a correct idea of mora
standards.
IC u uC lIOl al oldEl6lN Is uI
Manageable. 1t lies like a great snow
capped mountain range across the
lorizon. 1t cannot change This NOR
Il mountain range which has set tho
standard for all time sustains the same
citation to the moral world that the
Iimalayas do to the physical earth.
Attempts have been made to sub
titute, but to no avail Every one;
II awhile you hear OF a new set 0
commandments. Men of differen.
professions have issued ten com
nandments. have read of ten com.
nandments for husbands. for wives
or students, and even school children
3evisers have even gone into the tielt
If the New Testament and proposed
3eatitudes different from those laiC
Town by our Lord. All these at
empts are futile and insignificant
compared to the mountain range
ormed by the first Ten Command
nents let down out of heaven through
he medium of Moses. They cann0
)e improved upon.
Our conception of moral standards
changing We are today in the
IOISH VI ii wave Ic Wal UlJ0CI CIV
arything, toppled our moral as well az
our intellectual and physical stand
lrds. We have not recommended &c
Keep house. Thus there are certain.
setrogressions that are greatly dc
llored and which some fancy are
permanent lowering of the mora
standards. These are but eXcresccn
.es growing out of the war. Such
horrible program as was projected
lpon the world could not but leave il
is trail a sordid conception of morals
thus, in the matter of family ties, o
physical habits, of our amusements
We find people indulging as they have
lot done for many years past.
This is but passing wave. Evel
low we are emerging therefrOm. Gu
conception of the moral standard is
fitting. One of the most hopeful
phases of this development of a MOI
IL ideal is the application of the prin
.iple of Christianity to the grea
World Of industry about us. There j:
10 question but that we have a large
outlook in this field than ever before
But the world has become compli
:ated. There is no simplicity. Ev
erything is interviewer, enmeshed
No man liveth to himself and no MAJ
lieth to himself in any sense what
ever. Once upon a time we did moi
care how man made his. money just
so he distributed it properly. Nov
we are not anxious about the distri
button of his money as how he made
it. | have great hopes for the future
The moral standard is lifting gradu
ally. The line marked upon the side
Of the great and eternal standard Sc
by Christ Himself is gradually mount
ing. Some day-but not now-we MAY
reach the tip of the standard"