South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-17
SOCIETY SHOULD
STEM ADVANCE OF
CRIMINAL SCHOOL
Certain Lawyers, Judges and
Motion Pictures Teach
Crime. Said.
DAVIS

Declaring that too many lawyers
exert their minds 10 finding loop
holes in the law through which to
free criminals. that sentimental
judges have been too liberal with
suspended sentences and that the
moving picture theater has prOstitu-
ted its possibilities 10 teaching boys
and girls in the experiences OF vice
and crime until they Guido in clever
ness the oldtime slueth, Or. l.. >.
Davis. in his sermon Sunday even
ing at the First Baptist church said
that IL is not time for society o in
/ terfere with the school OF criminal
breeding.
Or. Davis theme was The Sup
RENE Work He said in part:
In writing TO the Christians at
Philippi, Paul exhorts them TO work
out their own salvation with fear
and trembling. Does he mean that
YOU are 10 work out what God has
wrought in. Is that Gods plan
Men who work from a definite plan
do the most work. a great paint
ing is the careful thought OF the
artist worked out in canvas What
does Paul mean by fear and tremb-
ling? This and only this attention.
Let US give attention less we miss
something Gods great plan.
Work out your own salvation.
10 is thought Of as a work that is
our own, pertaining to ourselves and
going on in ourselves. The word
salvation implies that something is
| lost Here the soul which stands
for the life Of the individual is lost.
H.1 4
in the sense Of destruction, but in the
sense n which a worthless child is
lost TO his parents, worthless sol
der is lost in his army. a worthless
citizen is lost 70 his country. Sal
walton means the recovery OF the
divine possibilities within the soul.
Salvation means redemption from
those things that renders a man from
coming into his inheritance as a
child of Cod.
Two Loop I'm Law.
TT implies salvation from I'M
worthy thoughts. II belongs TO US as
thinking beings TO think out the
treat thoughts which God has given
for our instruction in the Bible. This
is part Of the great work which God
] has appointed Us TO work out. Our
thoughts about Cod are too low,
mean and trivial. God must be put
/ into his rightful place in our
thoughts. We are minimizing God
and exalting man. Little God and
/ big man will not save us Of the IA
ton. There is a lot OF fool think
/ ing on big subjects. TOO many
! lawyers work their brains over time
to find loop holes in the laws to
get thugs, highwaymen and murder
ers free. The result is a nation wide
wave of crime. Sentimental judges
| have done the matter Of suspended
sentences until neither home nor life
itself is safe. The moving picture
/ theater has prostituted its possibili-
\ ties 20 teaching boys and girls In the
I eXpertness Cf vice and crime until
/ they Guido IN cleverness the old
time "sleuth." As a man thinketA
/ in his heart 80 Is he. Teach a boy
/ TO think crime and show him how
to do II and you will have GRIMM
ais. Is IL not time that this school
that is breeding criminals be given
attention by society?
I'VE need 10 be saved from I'M
worthy conception Of life. There are
many views Of life but all may be
condensed into two-the world view
and the heaven view. The world
view makes life thing Of the senses,
| limits it to the things of this world
and ties il ito material interests.
/ There is something in man that reb-
! els against this view. The heaven
view is that which regards man as a
child OF eternity. This view bTOadens
I life, makes il a thing OF spirit. II
I can not be tied TO bread alone. It
/ demands wider horizon than any
I time limit. The world view has
developed the modern prcftteer. The
nCar view has given us the Red
! Cross, Hoover and the fine human
/ itrian spirit that is seeking to save
the stricken lands OF the world.
Think internationally.
I'VE need TO be saved from un-
worry affections. This enters into
the question OF our happiness. 1t
/ is easy TO love some people. Too
many are asking who Is my neigh
/ bor Today every starving child in
Europe and China IS our neighbor.
America for Americans" was the
CRY OF the old Free-Soldiers. That
party is dead. Today we think in
tcrnationauy America is the Good
Samaritan among the nations OF the
earth. We will not seal our ears TO
the cry for help.
Salvation means redemption from
sin. Sin is the root OF all our
Ills. Give attention 10 this the first
and only important question OF every
mans life What will I do with
IassllS called the Christ.