Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-26

! SsssSSssSS S this inspired dec
laration Of the
great Apostle to the Gentles.
| He declares that while human nature is
one and the same in all men and all nations,
! God has overruled the rise of nationalities
and determined national boundaries for the
fulfilment of the supreme purpose that man.
kind everywhere should seek and find their
heavenly Father
This teaching of St. Paul has been denied
in various forms of contradiction by men
who felt themselves wise enough to correct
the inspired utterance Of eternal truth but
some of their contradictory theories, which
they. affirmed confidently in the past
have been exploded and Others still held with
equal assurance are foredoomed to final re-
lection.
For example, when st. Paul said God had
made of one blood all nations of mem his
assertion was regarded preposterous nom
sense. Every nation then held itself aloof
from all other nations, and looked upon them
with a measure of contempt because of their
inferiOrity of nature and htstorys
The Greeks called all other peoples bar
barians, and the Jews characterized all the
outlying races of men as Gentle dogs while
the Romans with imperious pride denomi-
mated all but themselves as simply "the
Others"
The idea of universal religion for univer
sal human nature secuted with the most
derisive condemnation.
When st. Paul made defense of himself
before his Hebrew fathers and brethren at
jerusalem they heard him with the greatest
patience and attention until he told them God
had commanded him to leave Jerusalem, say
ing, Depart; for I will send thee far hence
to the Gentiles." Then says the historian of
the Acts, "They gave him audience unto this
word, and then lifted up their voices, and
said, Away with such a fellow from the,
earth; for it is not fit that he should live"
(Acts xxii:2122)
Thus they rejected with heated intolerance
the idea of a religion equally adapted and
equally necessary to both Jews and Gentiles.
In' like manner the Gentle opponents of
Christianity then and in later centuries, re-
pudiated with perfect contempt the concep
ton of common humanity with universal
religion SO spoke CELSIUS, Porphyry, and
others.
Indeed, until comparatively recent times,
the scientists have rejected PauIs idea that
God has made all nations of one blood. They
have taught not the unity of the human race,
but the varieties of racial stocks insisting
that the white, black, red and yellow races
could not have had by any possibility com.
mon origin and ancestry.
In more recent years they have gone to the
opposite extreme, and have affirmed that all
men have sprung from the anthropoid ape.
But Pauls teaching stands as mistaken
truth while scientific speculatons whirl all
about like weather-cOcks turned by change
full winds
Everywhere the doctrines Of the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of man are pro-
claimed now as established beyond all doubt
or question.
But these great and precious principles
are being applied by many in a most unscrip-
tural and unreasonable manner. Extreme
men would have all racial lines effaced and
all national boundaries wiped off the map Of
the earth, in order to make way for an i'm
possible and undesirable form of sentimental
nternationalism. This can not be-
God has made "all nations of one blood"
but it is equally true that he has deter
mined the times before appointed and the
bounds Of their habtatiOn, that they should
seek the Lord
Racial lines and national boundaries are
dlynely ordained for the achievement of re-
ligious ends. SO st. Paul taught at Athens,
and so all history teaches
Miscegenation between races of different
character works moral disorder and human
degradation. 1t rejects the ordinances of
God for the purity Of racial stocks. and sets
at naught the religious purpose designed to
be fulfilled through the varieties Of human
nature. Mongrelsm is monstrous type 1t
hlhders human progress and withstands the
pFoFldenual government of mankind
NOT less hurtful are indscrminate migra-'
tlons OF all sorts of peoples into one country.
lhey engender conflicts and infIame the most
dangerous antagonisms.
Ihe American people have ignored this
pam truth in the past, and they are now be-
ginning mot too soon) to see the error of
their way
Coyetous capital, seeking cheap labor. has
subsidized and stimulated an excessive and
dangerous species Of immigration This dan.
ger was brought alarmingy in view during
the World war. We found thousands among
US VINO were not of us or with us. We had
multiplied thousands Of foreign elements
VINO had not been assimilated Into our no.
Htlcal system had been taken far more for
elgn bodies than it could digest And the
peril OF such a condition has not vet Dassed
we nave been fond of talking about orr
country as "a melting pot in which iIlim-
ilaOIe numbers Of dissimiIar substances might
De poured and fused into a homogeneous
mass.
But the melting pot theory does not con-
FORM to the facts. The fusing process has
IaHed 10 operate as rapidly and effectuaIly
as the case demanded. great bulk of i'm
migrants have refused to melt ana 70 ba
FUSED in a new and nobler mass.
No t-minded-certainIy no Christian
man VIII took upon any degree OF allowance
upon any anti-foregner agitation. The in
element OF racial preiudces and national an
upathies can not be deprecated too earnestly
or denounced too strongly.
But 1t must be candidly confessed that for
ign immigration to the United States has
zen far too great and far too swift.
1t must be limited to the measure Of the
capacity OF the nation for safe assimilation
1t is not good for other nations. nor for orr
country that it be allowed to run longer in
.teh immense volumes
MiSH2ucns are most critical movements
ana they have not infreQuenty led to wars
md created age-lOng anita gonisms between
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