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Cross, the heavenly Intercessor, the abid* ing Presence, the descending Glory; to the bonfire with theologies and martyrolo- gies, bring on your psychologies, eugenics and Higher. Criticisms—only the latest edi tions accepted. Two Opinions About Pool Rooms— Superintendent Francis and Louis Bundy This from a Secular Paper: Superintendent Francis of the Los An geles public schools recently addressed the civic center gathering of the Avenue 62 School, and since then we have heard nu merous remarks about that address. Upon careful investigation, we find six witnesses who heard him use the following words: "Fathers should be good fellows with their boys. Go to the pool room with them once in awhile and have an evening of pool with them. I f they want to go fishing on Sunday instead of going to church, go' with them..’’ Louis Bundy, the brutal slayer of poor little Harold Ziesche, upon being convicted of murder in the first degree, said to news paper reporters: “I am in this condition because of pool rooms, cigarettes and idle ness. I advise all of my former associates to keep away from pool rooms.”—Highland Park Herald. Where shall a guilty sinner flee From God’s dread day o f wrath and flame? Oh, camp beneath the sacred Tree Where hung the Lord in death and shame. But in that day when lightnings fly Shall this one Tree alone remain? O yes! for where our Lord did die God’s storm can never burst again! Beneath its shade has camped the host O f God’s rede'emed from age to age. And never one of all been lost, However Hell might rise and rage! 0 landmark o f Earth’s passing years, The Cross where Jesus Wed, 1 see Thee through my falling tears And know Heaven’s straight ahead.
dares his conviction that Dr. Eliot, late president of Harvard, is right in reducing Christianity to pure naturalism; and offer ing a rationalistic creed for the “ supersti tion, prejudice and narrow sectarianism,” which Mr. Blight, if truly quoted, intimates has prevailed, and will), for a time, among , the ignorant multitudes. “ Religious doc trines must be interpreted in the light of scientific knowledge,” he says, “ our relig ious opinions must harmonize with truth as revealed by science.” /He does not tell us wherein scientific revelation discords with Inspired; nor what scientific knowledge shall be substituted tomorrow for the reve lation of today. We know of some scien tists," who stand like McKinley, St. Elias, or Everest, among the mountains, overtop ping their fellows, who claim that they have had to readjust their scientific, not their Scripture, Creeds. To Mr. Blight the Old Gospel is a stale loaf. He says that “the human heart hun gers and thirsts for the bread of life (scien tific bread—atoms, rocks,', gases, force, law) and cannot be satisfied with the husks of dry theology (Mr. Blight does not here refer to his own theology) or the cold pre cepts o f ethical philosophy” (but here he rules his own out of court, which is mani fest ethics pure and simple). “W e want,” he says, “a religion which satisfies the rea son (Bacon, Isaac, •Newton, Edwards, Hamilton, Butler, Porter, McCosh, etc., etc., those intellectual giants! what a pity they could not have sat under the pulpit of "The Los Angeles Fellowship ” ) and will stir the emotions (the Glorious company of the martyrs, hear! that Zavier, Elliot, Carey, Judson, with Bernard, Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody, might have been warmed up by the live wires-of, not a scientific the ology, they had that all right, but the theology of science!) broaden the vision (contracting it to earth, time, telescope, microscope, crucible, cephalometer, and sta tistics), quicken the moral life ( !)—that will do, “Ring out the old, ring in the new,” Ring out the Brother-God, the justifying
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