The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-04
TRUE STANDARD OF MORALS NOT
 CHANCEABLE
CBy Associated Prcssp

of the present day, changing from the simple code of our forefathers, are "ex- crescences growing out of the war" declared the Rev Dr. Ebert Robb Earring, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate. Chicago, before the fifth Ecumenical Methodist con, ference here. Tt is a passing wave from which," he said. i've are slowly but surely emerging"
 Dr. Earring, iu 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-sCraper habit Chicago twitter New York on the FIct and the Herald of that city replied there was no city on the western hemi- sphere that needed it's sky scraped worse than Chicago" Since then scores of cities have gone into the sky scraping business" continued the speaker In the spiritual meaning of that term we must all scrape the sky to get a correct idea of moral stand. ards.
 The true moral standard is un- changeable It lies like a great snow capped mountain range across the horizon. It cannot change. This moral mountain range which has set the standard for all time sustains the same relation to the moral world that the Himolayas do to the physical earth.
 Attempts have been made to sub. stitute, but to no avail Every once in while you hear Of new set of commandments. Men of different pro fessions have issued Ten Command ments. have read of Ten Command ments for husbands for wives, for stu dents and even school children. Re vsers 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 of Moses They cannot be improved upon
 Our conception of moral standards is changing. We are today in the trough of a wave. The war upset everything, toppled our moral as well as our intellectual and physi. cal standards. We have not recom- menced to keep house Thus there are certain retrogressions that are great ly deplored anC which some fancy are a permanent lowering of the moral standards These are but eXcrescenccs growing out of the war. Such a hor- rible program as was projected upon the world could not but leave in its trail a sordid 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 a passing wave. Even now we are emerging threfrom Our conception of the moral standard is lifting One of the most hopeful phases of this development of a moral deal is the application of the prin- cipIe of Christianity to the great world of industry about us. There is no question but that we have a larger out look in this field than ever before
 But the world has become compli- cated. There is no simplicity. Every thing is interwoven, enmeshed. No man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself in any sense what ever. Once upon time we did not care how a man made his money just so he distributed it properly Now We are not so anxious about the dis tribntion 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 set by Christ himself is gradually mount ing. Some day-but not now-we may reach the top of the standard"