Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-04-08
WASTING PRECIOUS TIME.
= Good Sermon from the Columbus
Dispatch.


Now comes famous Pittsburg
clergyman who declares that he doe,
not believe in the Virgin Birth of
Christ. Another clergyman equally
famous whose home is in st. Louis.
recently touched off a mighty con.
-roversy about the form and nature
Of God, A church in England has
Tor some time been seething with
excitement over the Kiluya heresy,
aud may be split from stem to stern.
What difference does it make?
Why should the church and the men
Eho are leaders of religious thought
waste precious time with prOftless
controversy while there is so much
10 be done in tn world about them
Why not let the Biblical account
,s the Immaculate Conception and
Virgin Birth stand, as revealed to
M in the Word of God, and devote
fhe time wasted in discussing it to
relieving distress among the poor
and destitute of earth? There is an
untold amount of injustice in the re-
lations of man it'll man that it were
far better to attempt to make
square.
What difference does it make what
narticular conception man may have
about the nature and form Of God,
50 long as all agree that He hates
oppression and lying and cheating,
and drunkenness, and hypocrisy, and
that decent men everywhere ought
to be waging warfare on crooked
meas and Anfairness and intemper-
aace, and striving to implant high
deals in the monds of he boys and
Girls of today who will be the men
and women of tomorrow.
What difference does it make
whether God made the world in six
days or six thousand years, so long
As the men and women He has Gre
9tad are working together to glorify
Him and spiritually upliftthe human
race
I5n't is silly? Isn't it pathetic
And isn't it wicked as we'll? One is
almost tempted to say that it ought
ID be regarded as dishonorable for a
man in a position of eminence to
TART an improbable controversy as
I'd set a building on fire or to steal
The man who sets people to wrang-
liar about speculative theories does
not enrich himself in any way but
steals from others precious time
that ought to be devoted to useful
constructive effort for Human
Brotherhood and the advancement
1f the Kingdom of God.
It is not so important for us to
know the size of God, or His form,
as that He created the world and all
things that it contains, and pre-
serves us by His untiring watchful-
ness We know He loves US, for He
sent His Son into the world to die
that we might live. We know He
watches over us, for He gives us the
sunshine, the rain and the bounteous
harvests. We know that He thinks
often of us, for at morning and
again at eventide He makes the
skies a blaze of color. He stars the
meadows in spring with flowers Of a
hundred hues; He arrays the au-
tumn woods in glorres of crimson
and gold and in winter makes every
galnt branch glitter with incrusta-
tsn frost diamonds, and in the
bamy days of June He peoples
every tree top with sweet-Yoieed
birds to cheer us on our way
The eminent high-brows who set
people all agog with discussions
about God and our Savior had bet
Ter pray for little humility to save
chem in the Day of Judgment. In
stead of parading their great learn.
ng, it would be better for them II
they would become as little children,
and, in faith and trust, return to
hat period in life whenthey knelt at
mothers knee and lisped the prayer
If childhood, "Now | lay me down
to sleep; pray the Lord my soul to
zeep." The Eternal and Omnlpo-
.ent God can take care of Himself
without our help, but we cannot
AXE care of ourselves without help
So, H., Col,,r,b,A DiSnatch