Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-17
OLD-TINE RELIGION
I. A GAMBLER

Seneca's instruction did not prevent Nero's
becoming a veritabe monster in the form of
a man.
Aaron Burr was the most cultured man of
his generation, but he set at naught every
principle of morality and trampled under
foot every impulse of patriotism. The chas-
tlty OF Womanhood was the prey of his con-
scienceless appetite and the welfare of his
country was as nothing to the inordinate am
bition of his supremely selfish soul.
Our schools and colleges should be cher
shed and supported; but they must give
more attention to the moral and spiritual life
of the children and youth committed to their
care
Not few institutions of learning have in
recent years become infected with a spirit of
characterization to authority which has been
nearly, or quite, lawless in it's inspiration and
results. The advancement of physical science
has displaced courses Of study having more
immediate and direct relation to morality
and religion. Philosophy has been dethron-
ed or denaturcd The data of ethics have
been found in the physical conditions of man
rather than in the nature and authority of
God, The voice of religion has been hushed
in the noisy uproar of scientific theories and
wealth producing inventions. Science has be-
come positively truculent in it's animus to-
wards all else including divine revelation:
and the rapid explosion of many of it's too
bastily-formed theories has not taught it to
be more modest or more reverent'
At the same time many of the institutions
in which this immodest and imperious sci
ence has been entrenched, have been richly
endowed, and thereby they have become in
dependent Of both church and state and in
different to the wholesome restraints of a
stabilizing public opinion Thereby, also,
they have become propagandists of economic
radicalism, social innovations, and religious
sceptlc1sm. Among instructors and students
is found in many of these super-scientific in
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| thority, both human and divine
Indeed, book has been published and
praised, entitled, 'The Revolt of Youth"
Inc frult OF such sowing can not fail to be
as perilous as the, seed it scatters is PERM
cious. 1t is ruinous and revolutionary
No worthy and enduring civilization ever
rose out OF 1rreVerence and 1nsu bordina alton.
Against whom are our youth being taught
by these innovations to revolt? Why against
their own forbears from whom they have in
herited all the best things by which their
lives are enriched
Can any such insolent instruction produce
good citizens? Revolt against parents breeds
rebellion against civil government and con-
tempt for divine law. Already our country
has far too much of these anarchistic things
The colleges and universities should arrest,
rather than foster these evil tendencies
Otherwise they will hurt and not help, civ
lllzat1on. They will pull down more than
stroy themselves
Learning can not look to anarchy for sup
port. When law is despsed and religion dis
credited, the main and best supports of edu-
cation will be subverted
Present-day education is developing power
more rapidly than it is creating moral con-
vlction and religious conscience; and I'M
scrupulous power rapidly runs to ruin.
Education, separated from religion, to say
nothing of education, antag onistic to religion
is distinctive force always and everywhere
it is found
The devil himself is "the most subtle
beast of the field,' and to work his ends he
can find nothing more effectual than dia-
bolic culture which sneers at all things sa-
cred and snarls at the laws of both God and
man.
Science is good, but morality is indispen-
sable Chemistry is good, but character Is
better. Life is more important than va
grant and defiant liberty of thought and IL
cense Of speech.