The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-22


pressed in the. Forum are
solely those of the writers
, and not of The Citizen.)
! Secretary Perkins is quoted as
saying there are 100000 starv-
ing children in the United States.
The Bible is quoted as saying:
Behold, this was the iniquity of
thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of
bread, and abundance of idleness
was in her and in her daughters,
neither did she strengthen the hand
of the poor and needy"
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| Only JUSTICE can do that.
Doles and aims fall far short of it.
Law is eternal. The law of &C.
onomics is as impersonal and as
answering as is the law of CRAWL
tation which acts as impartially
with grain of sand as it does with
an avalanche. Alas, for The ma
ton over-run with preachers"
when it is left to one besmirch-
ed politician to proclaim that the
way of national salvation is to
be found in the statutes and pre-
cepts of the Bible.
Behold, l set before you this
day a. blessing and a curse. A
blessing if We obey the command
ments of the Lord your God, which
| command you this day; and a
curse if We will not obey the COM
mandments of the Lord your God"
Think not that this was some
thing especially for the Jews. The
word 'Jew" was not to be heard
of for hundreds of years after this
was spoken. This was for the Is
raelites, the "Saxons" Qsaacsons)
and to us Anglo-Saxons, is the
word applicable today. For we
are his chosen people, destined 10
forget our heritage and suffer, I'M
til We practice what we preach and
act upon firm belief that 81 will
praise Thee with uprightness of
heart, when | have learned Thy
righteous judgements. Teach me,
% Lord, the way of Thy statutes;
and / will keep it unto the end.
And / WILL WALK AT LIBER-
TY; for l seek Thy precepts."
"Woe unto them that are at ease
in Zion" You pay your preachers
wages; invite him to leave off
playing safe by dwelling upon the
comfortable and uncontrovertibIe
gospel of poSt-mortem salvation
and advise him to earn his keep
and risk his comfortable existence
by preaching the gospel of the
Kingdom, for a change. He knows
where to find his texts: here are
a few; some of them have been
robbed of their significance by a
careful ignoring of the context.
One of the most striking ex-
amples of this perversion of the
Scriptures is that beautiful COM
passionate passage: Though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as
wool" This is taken from sone
of the most forceful and inflann-
matory political reform speeches
ever delivered, and the "sinp was.
the shameful fact that the people
had allowed crooked judges to live
too long. Read the first chapter,
of Isaiah and form your own con-
illusions.
Another forgotten" text may
be found in the 18th Psalm.
Lord, who shall abide in Thy tab
ernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy
Holy hill? He that put
teth not out his money to usury
-" IF we had borne that
precept in mind, we would not be
out on a limb without money
enough in the country to pay the
interests on its debts.
Nor, for the matter of that
would there be a people bowed
down with debt: for "at the end
of every seven years thou shalt
make a release. And this is the
manner of the release every.
creditor that lendeth aught to his
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