The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-03-19


delight in pursuing.
~ IMPOSING that we admit, for the sake OF
\ the argument, that moral conditions bad,
- can the situation be charged against any one
subdivision of society?
Let us look into the matter for moment.
The school, the educational system, some
thing that it has become quite popular to blame
for many of the ills that human flesh is heir
to, is, after all, but the reflection of the
poste mind as it reacts through the savenue OF
the state from the influence of public opinion.
The school is the result of the action of So
ciety, the effect of the effort that the social
order puts forth to rid itself of this thing tina.
it calls ignorance.
The church is but another of the institution
al forms of organized society-regardless of
whether consider its origin human divine
The human equation is strong, in
the church, that it, too, reflects the conditions
of society about it.
We are willing to accept the highest degree
of divine origin for the church, but must
insist that the instruments with which the church
must of necessity do it's work are hunfan-human
frailty pervades every avenue, here as elsewhere.
If the church is to blame, it is not because
of the message it brings, but because of tho
Deafness the dullness and the blindness Of those
to whom that message is delivered.
"HE third factor named in the attempt tc
draw up indictment for the crimes Of
4, = the day is society
Here we think that we have the culprlt most
to blame.
Society-well, what is society?
We do not expect to give a satisfying
swer, not even an answer that will satisfy our
Selves but we will dismiss the definition by say
ing that society--at least for the purpose of this
ARTICLES composite of the nature, attributes
and opinions of all men.
Society is melting pot by the aid Of which
it is sought to transform rough and angular,
smooth and round bars of ore into one lump mass.
Society is but another term for conformity.
And it is this thing that call society that
is the most to blame.
fVHERE a time when society was held
in check by thinkers and great minds.
Spirits that saw into the depths OF things
were able to steer the thinking Of the masses
along lines of sanity and safety.
But the present is an era of countless writ
ers and numberless books.
Now everybody is educated thousands
are writing books where but one wrote before
and every whipper-snapper able to string
words together is out in the arena trying to tell
the people what to do and say and think!
Every fundamental upon which society rests
is attacked from angle another. Nothing
is any longer sacred.
No tie of friendship or family is longer rev.
erenced. Books magazines, in fact whole Ii
braries devoted to the tearing down of the
very citadels that have protected the Soul of the
race in bygone centuries.
7 DOSE thinking is the bane Of the times.
The average man is "torn between two
- opinions on almost every subject
The things that he once was taught were
wrong now have their advocates among the
high and mighty
1t is no longer thing improper to sever the
bonds that unite one to a spouse who stands in
the way of another union pleasing to the
lust of the flesh.
To have faith in God is thing scoffed at on
every street, corner.
He who would keep the Sabbath holy is a
crank, fool, or fogy.
The commandments of God, as delivered to
His servant, Moses, have been declared at vari-
ance with the constitution of man by the self
constituted supreme court of this newer public
opinion.
The Bible has been found to be back mum.
Der and has been criticized" out of existence
by critics SO "high" in the air that their heads
SWAN.