The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-08-27
ADDRESS OF S. C. SINGLETON
AT FELLOW ship CLUB MEETING

to. matter. There are yet Laws
to be discovered.
fiFrom before the foundation
of the world, God WAS. And so
was Law. They are cosexistent.
We say that God is Love. We
can just as truly say that God is
Law.
''And here is the point / have
been striving to reach. The Law
of Economics is as solid and as
unshakeabls as is the Law of
Gravitation and can be ignored
with as little impunity; it applies
to the Nation and, in no less a
degree to the city of Key West;
it is formulated in the Bible, it
is your duty to know it-more
than that, knowing and enacting
it is your only chance to save
your city, your county, your stata
and your Nation from the fate of
Tyre and Sidon. For this Nation
ran perish as have the other Ma
tons which forgot God-and His
Laws
IF we knew that admitting that
the Law of the Lord is perfect
placed upon US the grim respon-
sibility of annulling the statutes
which conflict with it, I wonder
if we would make the admission
as cheerfully as We do?
81 am critical of the stress
laid upon the Gospel of Salvation
as compared to the Gospel of the
Law. 1t is safe to preach saliva
ton; but you can be hung for
preaching the Law in some places;
and / know of none where it can
be done comfortably.
"But, / am convinced that I'M
til the Gospel of the Law is made
known to all the people, that Ma
tional salvation is far from us;
that until we begin to build our
politics around the political econo-
my of the Bible that it is as inn
possible for us to serve God as it
was for the Israelites while they
were in bondage. Only free men
can do His work and only the
Truth can make men free.
IF indeed the Law of the Lord
is perfect, then it must be some
thing quite different from the
statutes enacted for us at Wash
ington and at Tallahassee. If it is
not foolish and futile, then it
cSuId cure the shameful mis-gov-
sernment apparent in Key West
today.
s'My stand may be stated thus /:
There is a definite Law of polit-
zeal economy elaborated in the
Bible in which the welfare of the
Nation is regarded as paramount
to any special privilege; that this
Law must be taken into considera-
ton in any really practical poll
tics; and that the Bible contains
the elements of the only sort of
craftsmanship that can endure.
'The common law of England
and of this country is based upon
thu law as laid down in the PEN
tateuch. But we are not well
governed because we have forsak-
en- the Law of Moses for the
statutes of 0mri; and until we re-
turn to the law of our fathers
land l say this advisedly), Nation
al salvation is far from us and we
live and develop in an environ
ment that forbids the attainment
of our full stature.
What ara we going to do
about it? Wen, individually, it
is up to each of Us to examine for
ourselves and decide whether or
not the Law of the Lord is per-
feet, whsther or not 1t has any
practical place in National and
local politics; or whether this
word perfect is just a bit of po.
lite oiah-blah.
Then, it is up to us to decide,
each man for himself, whether or
not he win timely and in silence
permit his heritage Of good gov
eminent to be filched from him.
or whether he viii join that
glorious company Of reckless souls
who have been used by God TO
bring as thus far from slavery and
barbarism. But first. you have
got to know, for yourselves wheth-
er these things be 50.
81 now hand this manuscript to
your program chairman for his
disposal as You may see fit. And
thank you for listening to my
message"