Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1922-05-19

cfcut LdclnR Oh Cne feduLleS OIL lie
and the world. You never feel that
Jesus was trying to put anything
across, he did nothing in corner. Pit
iless publicity was characteristic of
his MUD and heart. Out of such
mind for such a day as this came
these words: 4 can Of mine own self
do nothing. AS hear, / judge; and
my juugnent is just; because seek
not mine own will, but the will of the
Fathel which hath sent me- A man
like this with this sort of soul and
mind facing life with his courage and
with his character, is our greatest as
surance Of justice. And this is our
subject for this occasion, The Assur-
ance q Justice.
"We nave plenty of social unrest and
disquiet today and we are trying to
lay It at the door of anarchists, reds,
evil dosfs, because, as we heard last
night, .omebody has got to bear the
blame FOR it. Everywhere there is
disquiet and unrest-everywhere
disturhanc We want to get back
to ncla2lcy.. l am not speaking in
terms Of partisan politics at all, but
we earnot go back to normally, be-
cause ii we should we would not be the
same when we get back and those
things would not be the same. Nor
nfalcv i'm its dav was the best thing the
world knew. There was no one chal-
,,lenged--no gleam that allured men
furthel than it. 1t was the best men
knew. And we were then just what
lit Had made US. But in the last few
years we have heard a tremendous
voice from the deep of a great hu-
manitarian soul in rich American
English of which he is master. We
saw the gleam he had seen, we heard
his voice in the awful night, and we
are different. The world can never go
hack to normalcy because if we go
back it would be less than we know
now. We would be traitors to that
which once commanded our best heart
land thought.
eve must understand that the un-
rest Of today is not fundamentally due
| to anarchists and bolshevik, but to
these three things:
First: Growing social conscious
ness.
"The second thing that creates So
I cial rest today or disquiet is the
feeling that we are now living in q
system more or less artificial, created
iby greed. pride and selfishness of man
kind and that the system is essential
ly opposed to the highest welfare of
great masses of mankind.
and the third: A great reverence
and resnect for the power and re-
lsponsibility of creative intelligence in
cons tructing and working out the
kingdom of God here and now, a sys-
TEN that will be more just, more gen.
erous, more human.
"There was time when we said:
The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh
ava, blessed be the name of Cod
'The Lord giveth, the bugs taketh
away, let us eliminate the bug That
| is the difference in our attitude. The
Lord gives. He gives life. He pur-
poseth life, seeks to maintain life. and
sent His own son that man might have
life and have it more abundantlv.
That which robs men of the best life
is against the will of God. We were
all delighted to read that the typhus
germ had been isolated. We shall be
glad when the flu germ is isolated and
our doctors have learned what to feed
the Gentleman in order to put him out
cf business.
"Tne injustice and unfairness and
hardness of industrial, political and
social life was not given by God as
punishment of man for eating apples
millions of years ago. The hardness
| cf the way of life of a lot of men
today is not the curse of God for sin;
| it is an expression of sin itself. We
will begin right first, begin to isolate
and eliminate the bugs that cause the
trouble. We isolated one in Holland.
We should take a lot of them out of
Congress.
whenever you think of social un-
rest remember it is not because man is
on his way down, but on his way up.
The race of mankind today is going
up and the unrest is just the growing
pains and not an indication that he is
affected with a mortal disease at all.
Unrest today is an expression of a
growing social constituencies; good
will toward all good mankind. THE
expression of the feeling that the sys-
tenn we have today is artificial and
untrue and not natural in a world
over which God reigns the elements.
"The factors defeating righteous
ness and justice among men today are
First: Narrow-mindedness. 1t
used to be two men got in fight and
fought it out until one or the other
was beaten into submission or died.
Mankind first got along in this way
without the courts of justice. Then
they got a man as judge and group
of men as jury and tried the case
taking into account the whole situa-
tion. We do not allow a mans bro
ther or fiftieth cousin to sit on the
Jury when trying a man. We feel
that every drop of blood will narrow
their point of view.
"A second element causing injus-
tice and lack of mercy among men is
close-mindedness; refusal to respect,
to seek to discern new facts.
"Third: Cowardiee. Just afraid
TO venture, to 60 out into the nntried.
@Fourth: Ignorance. Lack Of
knowledge, lack of knowing what con-
ditions are, our lack of sufficient facts
upon which to pass Judgment.
AFifth: Greed and pride. A lot
Of folks hold on to things because