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COME OUT INTO THE OPEN Listen to the following from The Eastern Methodist: “The mind of man is so wonderful one can excuse for a moment the egotism that sets it up against all things even the Word of God. But the history of human thinking in its stupendous blunders and calamitous wanderings ought to sober away any egotism of the present. The mind of man is not a spontaneous fountain of all truth but it is a deep well into which the inner fresh streams from God will flow. And if man will pump and filter out impurities and test and taste wisely he will get the truth and the whole truth. A hypocrite was the one kind of a sinner that Christ could not stand- at all. The Pharisees were the world’s most con summate artists in hypocrisy. They trained in it, perfected themselves in all phases of it, and were brazen and oily and successful in it. But hear the thunders roll of Christ’s excoriation of them, the lightning’s flash of His sincere and holy wrath, and the blistering, burning, damning words exposing them such as man never before or since uttered. And now we have Higher Critics in the pulpit, in professor’s chairs, and as editors who preach old-fashioned spiritual Methodist sermons to the crowd! Who subtly conceal, as one leader illustrated to a crowd of laughing Methodist ministers, their real attitude and are praised by good Meth odists for preaching the.grand old Gospel! Where do such hypocrites belong but with the detestable bunch of oily Pharisees Christ visited with His curse? Shall we have in Methodism itself a shrewdly cultivated, keenly camouflaged and cunningly expressing lot of preachers who do not believe a jot or tittle of what they preach? Dr. Day in ‘Methodist Review’ declares there are many such and demands that they come out into the open as he says he had, a radical exposing the hypocrisy of his crowd!” Yes, smoke them out! Any man who has not the courage of his convictions should be carried out from the pulpit and put into a pew and compelled to hear a man’s message. One can feel sorry for an out-and-out infidel, and respect his honesty, but for a camouflaging counterfeit we have only contempt. ■ I’I I HOW TO BUILD A SUNDAY SCHOOL Dr. Henry E. Tralle, New York Sunday School specialist, is quoted in an exclusive dispatch from Kalamazoo, Michi gan, Aug. 10, as saying: “Sunday schools should teach the science of love-making, and furthermore there should be a secluded nook in every church house where young folks may court. One course in love-making is worth forty courses in Latin. Girls should have wholesome association with the opposite sex.” We are referring this to Rev. J. Frank Norris, of Ft. Worth, Texas, who has the world record for a successful Sunday School. The only difficulty would be to make nooks enough for the fellows’ hooks who are ready to bait them for the bashful girls. How glad we are that we have in these days experts who can tell us how to do everything!
A RIGHTEOUS REBUKE The “Better America Association” in their Weekly Letter recently published the following deserved rebuke to an or ganization which is seeking recruits: The American Civil Liberties Union has sought to inject itself into the favor of this State by assuming a leadership for so-called freedom of speech, and a defense of those who have been apprehended for violation of the Criminal Syndi calism Law. In addition to various efforts to establish or ganization, solicitations for membership have been made. There has come into our possession copy of a response made by a patriotic citizen to one of these invitations. It is reproduced below: “Sirs: Your communication mailed to my address has just been received. I have read and re-read it with great care. I have conned its list of sponsors prominent among whom I find: “ (1) ROGER N. BALDWIN, Director, a man who serv ed, deservedly, a prison sentence during the World War, for pacifism and for inciting others to pursue a like das tardly and disloyal course; “ (2) NORMAN HAPGOOD, once noted and respected journalist but now fallen from grace and at present func tioning as a satellite of Wm. Randolph Hearst, America’s Pro-German newspaper publisher; “ (3) JEANETTE RANKIN, our ex-sob-sister congress- woman, a female politician whose congressional career Is an equivocal page written in the history of ‘Woman in the Halls of Congress.’ “And you have the audacity presumably to include me— long an educator, a reader, a thinker, an ardent supporter of constituted authority and law, with this motley collection of cillifiers of the government, of this our beloved govern ment of the United States of America. “The disgrace of such association would rankle to my dying day did it not arouse within my soul the determina tion to use talents which are mine of pen and platform to stir an unthinking and supine public to a knowledge of the menace to them and their public institutions, their welfare and even their lives, of such an organization as yours, whose tenets, carried to their logical end, mean the entire over throw of all constituted government. “Especially shall I warn my fellow educators, who, as a class, follow high and unselfish ideals, to the danger your organization is, not only to their teachings, but in the end to themselves and to the texture of our whole educational system. "If I needed any incentive to lay my talents wholeheart edly on the altar of my country’s need, you have supplied it.” That is the kind of reply that should be given to an or ganization which seeks members from evangelical churches, but whose object is to defame the Word of God.
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