October 1927
T h e
K i n g ’ s
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This is dangerously near one out of three. This does not include the number of marriages that are unhappy, but have not required action from the courts. * * * Rolf Lium, 23 years of age, had to preach his first sermon to a congregation which included the President of the United States. He took the pastorate for the summer at the Mission Church at Hermosa where the president has been worshiping during his vacation in the Black Hills. It has taken courage for this "young man to stand before the President and his associates, and prob ably no one knows the amount of grace it has taken to bear the burden of cor respondence from religious fanatics. We have seen some of the literature ad dressed to the young man, copies having been sent to publishers, and we have been led to pray that the young preacher should not be caused to turn with disgust from Fundamentalism merely because some of its adherents are unwise. * * * •Harry Carr, news-writer, says of this new-fangled “companionate marriage” doctrine advocated by Judge Lindsey, H. G. Wells and several lightweight parsons —“Why not call a spade a spade? There is nothing new about it. Men without ethical standards have kept mistresses from the beginning of time. But why call upon the public to help them? Mor als and ethics put to one side, there are a lot of practical industrial and socio logical reasons why it would not be a good idea to heave the ancient institution of marriage overboard. It isn’t impor tant that people do what they want to do. Much more important that they be dis ciplined into doing what is. good for them to do. In marriage, as in other things, we need more of Vermont and less of imported European ideas.” * * * One thing is certain. There are evi dently a number of editors who think there is good reading in T h e K ing ’ s B usiness . For several weeks we have noted the fact that about a half-dozen of our exchanges are largely made up from material taken from our columns— headlines and all. It would be a help ■to us if they would give credit, for sev eral times we have clipped our own items to use again, giving credit to the paper from which they were clipped, only to discover at the last moment that we had
Having made his apology for offending the Jews, Henry Ford now goes to the opposite extreme with his paper and says: “I am going to stop absolutely every thing that could possibly cause complaint or hurt the feelings of anybody.” Those of us who have ever tried to run a paper with that idea are ready to testify that Mr. Ford is about to go out of the news paper business.
You may get through the world, but ’twill be very slow, If you listen to all that is said as! you go. You’ll be worried and fretted and kept in a stew, For meddlesome tongues must have something to do - And people will talk. * * * “A scientist,” says The Los Angeles Times, “is a man who can examine a bit of thigh bone and reconstruct the pre historic monster’s skull.” * * * “Perhaps you have noticed from the ads,” says The Pathfinder, “that the best way to picture the excellencies of any article for sale, from automobile to tooth paste, is to exhibit the likeness of a pretty and smiling girl.” * * * Melville E. Stone, the Chicago pub lisher, was quoted not long ago in The New York Times as saying that no mur der is so heinous as the killing of faith in the human soul. * * * This from The Oregon-Trail Church man : “It is a curious fact that the man who never goes to church and rarely gives toward its support wants the longest ser mon over him when he is dead.” * * * Here is something for some church officials to ponder, especially if they have been given to accusing the Jews of being money grabbers : The Associated Jewish Charities of Chicago recently refused a gift of $20,000, because the giver had made his fortune as a bootlegger. When the philanthro pist replied that he was no longer a boot legger, he was answered that since he had gained his money by illicit means, the gift was tainted and, therefore, could not be accepted. * * * In The Lutheran, we meet this chal lenging paragraph: “Why is it that men have so generally been led to resort to various semi-relig ious secret orders in order to realize what they felt was a reasonable possi bility in the field of brotherhood among men? Was it not that the word ‘brother’ had come to mean practically nothing when used to designate fellowship among churchmen?”
Would I be called a “Christian,” If ev’rybody knew My secret thoughts and feel ings, And ev’rything I do? Oh, could they see the likeness Of Christ in me, each day? Oh, could they hear Him speak ing, In ev’ry word I say ? Would I be called a “Christian,’ If any one could know That I am found in places, Where Jesus would not go? Oh, could they hear His echo In every song I sing? In eating, drinking, dressing, Could they see Christ my King? : Would I be called a “Christian,” If judged by what I read? By all my recreations, And ev’ry thought and deed ? Could I be counted Christ-like, As I now work and pray? Unselfish, kind, forgiving To others ev’ry day?
M rs . J. F. M oser
It is getting rather amusing to see how the modern fads are made to serve the purpose of the Modernists, A writer has contributed some articles in The Bap tist Times on Modern Psychology and the Old Testament, in which he tries to make out that the Book of Daniel, read in the psychological rather than histori cal spirit, becomes a parable rather than a record of actual facts. * * * Out of 16,230 marriages in Los Ange les, last year, 5085 went on the rocks— either through divorce or annulment.
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