Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-11
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP w. 4. GAMBLER

law is not justified In intllctlng punlShment.'
Certainly, if this fatalistic science is sound,
the law is not justified in inficting punish
ment. And if it were who is morally and
mentally competent to determine guilt and
fix penalties?
The experts testified that the disordered
glands of the young scapegraces on trial for
the brutal murder of a defenseless boy in
Chicago explained and extenuated their hor-
rible offense. But who has examined the
glands of the experts? 1t may be that tn cir
testimony is a glandular secretion for which
they are in no wise responsible. Perha ps
their science is glandular activity or inactvi-
ty. Possibly the judge whose decision their
testimony was designed to influence may be
in a state of glandular disorder. The at
torneys on both sides of the case also. may
be in like condition. Who knows?5 Can
any certainty of sanity and justice be as
sured amid possible conditions of such CLAN
dular confusion and illusion?
1t is time to have done with a dangerous
and delusiye materialism which effaces all
distinctions between right and wrong and
makes law a laughing stock.
system of science which reduces the
formula of civilization below zero can not be
true. 1t is obliged to be false
And it is as blghting as it is false Before
it every beautiful and good thing must in
evitably wither and die.
Already it has withered much that is high
and holy, and has engendered noxious
crowns IN tn6lr stead. LII mas taken the
vigor out of the virtue of multtudes of men
and women and produced in it's place a self
plying sentimentalty which enervates the
moral faculties until sinners lament their
weakness but never bemoan their wicked
ness: 1t excludes both strenuous goodness
and genuine repentance.
It is time to set aside the opponents of
this vicious philosophy and discredit their
expert testimony. They assume the airs OF
mmeasurable wisdom and talk with the
tongues of boundless folly.
The least dependable testimony offered in
the courts of the land is expert testimony.
1t is at best nothing better than delusive
theorzing incapable of being tested by com
mon sense In many cases it is purchased
at high price and made to accomplish bad
ends which could not be reached by plain
truth.
Much of the boosted stuff miscalled mod
ern scholarship is equally unreliable. 1t is
'ever learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth OI Timothy
HE'D
There is a superstition about 1t, the chief
article of which says, "All modern scholars
are now agreed, ETC." This the utterance OF
ignorance.
Modern scholars are agreed about very few
things, and, when by chance, they agree on
something for little while, they very soon
disagree. The same man disagrees with
himself often within brief periods, and some
times holds at once mutually destructive
theories. For example, some of the rankest
materialsts are spirtualists, and although
making for themselves preten tious claims OF
scholarship they do not possess enough logic
to perceive that they are retaining contra
dctory theories to their system as incom-
patible as acids and alkals. 1t is a wonder
that they do not explode. Frequently they do
1t is time for common sense to resume its
reign Reason should longer be subject
to pseudo-science which has gone to seed and
law should longer listen to experts who
draw their testimony from the eccentric the
cries of glandular materialsm.
Fatalsm is folly. Men are free, and what
ever may be the effects of heredity and en-
vironment the regenerative power of the
Holy Spirit more than offsets their influence.
In Christ life and liberty offered to the
feeblest children of men.
No soul is ever lost because he can not do
right but only because he will not be and do
what the Redeemer requires and enables him
to be and do
"And this is the condemnation, that light
is come into the world, and men loved dark
ness rather than light because their deeds
were evil" John HELD