The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-14
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 There is but one God F is the eornerstys,,s of whatever ahidin& morality there N. evss: ms been, or win be m the world. 8 s
 Any permanent list of fs5rnrnandvna,ts VI \, sjs begin, as Noses list began, with a prob;b;. bii. tion of idolatry. ''a
 Modern civilization is as full of subtle idol. atries as eyer was Phillistria or Tyre.
 We have as many false gods as Rome had when all foreign deities were welcomed to her city. and Isis, Osiris, 9Asteroth. and Thor v,ed with Jupiter and Venus in her market place of souls.
 There are no infidels nor aRrostics. Ali who do not believe in God of fighteousness and love believe in some other god.
 For your god is simply that thing. force, or trolls you and events. z
 There are they that worship the god Ilt1ck At her shrine they consume their souls. Life to them is a kind of poker game. It ali de pends upon the fall of the cards.
 They win tell yotl that gambling on he rise or fall of wheaton stocks is life. <. Tint exquisite suspense when the tnrn of chance may plunge them into poverty or raise them to luxury crowds years into minute.
 -Four god is what can give you climax, ecstasy. es
 There are still among us devotees of Ve- nus, though they may not know her name. Their highest points of joy, which color and occupy all their reveries are crises of the flesh ag 9s sl
 There are. worshippers of Mars, who still believe that men really Hive" only in battle. and nations life is inswar or getting ready for war. eaa
 There are those whdse souls bow down to the Golden Calf. Their one intoxication is making money. Having accumulated all they need they do not stop and live, but % on making more, for to them money-making is Iife.s
 Other calf-worshippers are they, rich and poor, who conceive that money can make them happy and elevate their poor souls to power and mastery.
 Some there be who imagine the Almighty to be machine, an automatic engine, soul-,. less, dull, blind, cruel, precise. The stars are clockwork, and so are events. All hu- man hopes and fears, loves and enthusiasms. are expIainable in terms of salts, acids and compound forces.
 We have with us devil worshippers, whose fundamental conception of whatever force it is that rules all thingsis that it is sinister and mocking. You have met them.
 We have happiness worshippers, among whom 10 feel good is to De righteous, to deny tragedy is to cure it, and to ignore poverty and crime is to remedy them.
 What. then, is the true God; Taking the consensus of all times and clines, of their wisest and greatest souls, Buddha, Ccnfu- cius, Mohammed, Socrates and Cato, as well as of our own greatest Teacher. it can simply Dc said that whatever else God may be, He is two things:
 He is righteousness (truth) and love. Whc- ever believes in these two things as being at the heart of the Supreme Being cannot go far astray.
 And perhaps, after all, the ,chiId's creed iss $ the best. It is indicated in the common prayer, Our Father"
 It is stated well by Paul: "For there be lords many and gods many, but to us there is but one God, the Father,