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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S Good for the Scotchman. These are the kind of words we need in this soft, shilly-shallying age. From letters from the front, however, and from conversation with returned soldiers, “ Y” men and some preachers, we are prepared to say that the soldiers absolutely took no stock in the message that some of these men sought to give them, that death for their country would be rewarded by a place in Heaven. Any man who knows men, knows well enough that they would not believe any such rotten stuff. No man facing death but knows that he has an account to meet before a righteous God. Some of these preachers may be fools enough to be fooled, but they cannot camouflage men in the trenches, or men in the tent, or men at large. Such preachers lack two things: H i They lack a knowledge of the Word of God, and (2) they lack a knowledge of men, and they need to get away from their books and their study and get back to the Bible and a living touch with living men. The average man never has and never will attend the ministry of men that preach this kind of a message, and Paul says concerning the doctrine of salvation through the sacrificial atonement of Christ, (Gal. 1 :8, 9) “ But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” We commend these two verses to all of these so-called preachers of the Gospel, and we commend them to all of our readers.—T. C. H. T h e “Sacrament W ine” Bugaboo Cardinal Gibbons recently issued a statement “ only made public after careful thought,” condemning Prohibition as against personal liberty, causing loss of the Government revenues, and striking “ at the fundamentals of the Christian religion.” This last refers to the use of wine in the Mass! He added one new paragraph, quoted in these words by the Outlook: “ In the carrying out of the law I see also an invasion of the home which up to now all men have agreed is a sacred, holy place. These agents may enter our homes with the violence of burglars and the immunity of officers of the law.” W. H. Anderson, New York State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, made this reply: “The tru th is th a t th e prohibition am endm ent touches nothing except the beverage use of alcoholic liquor, and th ere has no t been anywhere any attem p t on th e p a rt of th e Anti-Saloon league to in terfere w ith th e securing of w ine for the sacram ental use. “This reiteration of u n tru th fu l statem en ts calculated to raise a sectarian issue seems to requ ire th a t we now say th a t the same dishonest and u n tru th fu l statem en ts were widely circulated in New York du ring the recent campaign as a so rt of religious smoke-screen behind which to mask a Catholic drive for th e elec tion of a Catholic Governor of New York State. “ If C ardinal Gibbons desires to oppose prohibition because many of the larg est and w ealthiest distillers of Maryland are members of and liberal con trib u to rs of his Church, and because most of the saloon-keepers who belong to any church are Catholics in good standing, or if he w ishes to oppose prohibition for any other reason, he has a perfect rig h t to do so as an American citizen. But he has no rig h t to do it in words w h'ch have no basis in fact, b u t which are
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