Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-01-20
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH Us:

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That something is wrong with Us.
and radically wrong, is no. to be de-
r.ed. This world is In the throes If
a nervous upheaval-a sort Of COS
mic st. Nitus Dance-that prevents
any concerted action or any quie,ness
of detail. Sanity and sobriety have
taken the wings Of the morning and
have flown, we know not where. We
may search the uttermost parts Of
theearth ard sound all Of the deeps
and still the calmness Of spirit and
wholesomeness of quiet and upper
turbed action are not to he found.
Men break out with bold deeds and
strange u%tterances hitherto unknown
and banefully unorthodox as to the
tents Of sound behavior, and while
the world looks on, often times
aghast, wondering the while when
where it will lead. Still the mad
rush goes on, growing ever ard ever
more mad.
From here and yonder comes the
cry, What is the matter with the
word today 2" and ever the echo
comes back, "What is the matter to-
day." But among the throng, in
the mad stampede, bIffeted by it,
it, are the few torch bearers who
know the answer to this cry, but
whose voice is not heard above the
tumult, and whose light is unseen. {
These cry out that the world has ,
fallen away from God, and is build
ing It's tower of Babel, the noise and
confusion Of which gives them eyes
taat see not and ears that hear not,
50 they rush unheedingly on. 8
As in the case Of the Jews, when Y
he lure of this world drew them
rom the true and living God, they t
,et up worship of Baal and other "
.aIse gods whose exactions could be p
# their own making, so has this gen
ration taken up new cults that ease II
he conscience, and the souls II
ines to fall in pleasant places, and
hat is what is the matter with the ca
,orId today. This advanced religious tt
that has grandly swept u
side the very foundation of chris al
anity the divinity Of Christ, has pl
one more to hammer down the true ne
'nts Of Christianity thar all the yc
onoclastic blows that atheism has
yer aimed. Mankind was created VI
it'll a spirit Of worship paramount, VIZ
II that cry is so strong in his being ry
,at agnosticiSm can find but scant III
and noxious though it may an
!, 1t Is not as much to be feared as to
e pernicious so-called faiths which or
Q sweeping the world to the en- tn
lingering of the Christianity that as
As established for the salvation of Wis
on a starlit night in a me
anger in Bethlehem.
We have been taught that he who be
IS born on this night was the Son ma
God-one with God. Il and the mi
,ther are one He said and as wi
ch the world has accepted Him, KIN
til these rev faiths laughed it to by
orn. and spread about the doctrine a {
Mt Christ was the son of God in till
{ sense hat all men are his IONS, thr
d nthing more-that he merely de- fin,
the spark of divinity that is tru
us all more than any mar before or mil
zee has dong, and thus became a
der. They have left no Christ pla
d on which to build the structure of
faith. TIL,
This preachment has taken root, to
/ has spread; men have grown to
'rnful Of ritual established faith in
| church teachings. Even prayer and
gone out of style! And that is sea
at ails the worId-it is spiritually \
and nauseously convulsive. lars
government Of which the old or
e faith is not the foundation, is as ing
ouse builded upon the s%and-when qua
winds and waves of uncertainty fori
W and beat upon it, it %totters and {
S, and ruin fills its place. are
Preachers from pulpits are even wei
dirg forth this doctrine of the the
: thought in religion, and it is tn
NJ practiced by the thousands, who
that is what has brought chaos pict
the world today. When men get to
k to the old faith. the world will it d
back to sane and normal living. who
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