T h e K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
October 1932
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which “ is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” President Hoover is not alone in his despair. God Himself has more than once despaired of men ! He des paired of men in the days of Noah when “ it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Gen. 6 :6 ). Just beyond the despair of God ever lies the day of judgment ! A s a Great Humorist Sees It After all, the profoundest political wisdom to which utterance has been given since the two great political par ties of our country went “wet” came from thé pen of America’s great cowboy humorist, Will Rogers. At the close of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, he Wrote : Now somebody is going to get fooled on this thing . . . I wish the Convention, when they saw that they had the beer, would have listened to sonie other speaker that might have had a plank to present to show ’em where to get some bread with the beer. Some o f those not too far away days we are going to realize that our troubles are so much deeper than beer that we will wish we had listened to something else, after we had the beer. But we got one advantage anyhow, we can drown our troubles legally. But wait'a minute! Just how much fun is it going to be to drink now when we ain’t breaking any law ? They have , taken all the fun out o f drinking! What’s some other amendments we can break in its place? Yes, it took this cowboy humorist to tell the whole story in fewest words. “ How much fun is it going to be to drink now when we ain’t breaking any law? . . . What’s some other amendments we can break?” There is the world’s greatest problem. And there is the condemnation of this age. There is the reason for coming judgment. In nate lawlessness ! “ The carnal mind is enmity with God”— and utterly refuses to be subject to the law of God. It glories only in its disobedience ! The Despair of the Historian On the twentieth of last June, Dr. James T. Shotwell, professor of history at Columbia University, and trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, stood before 1,136 members of the graduating class at the forty- first annual commencement of the great Stanford Univer sity, and said : Unless we learn tbe lesson taught us by antiquity—that we must substitute reason for force and justice for ex ploitation—our scientific age will prove just another in terlude like the golden age o f Greece and Rome, and the emergence from the ice age will be postponed another thousand years. Then he let loose his cry of despair : I have no final advice to give you, young men and women! It's too late for that now! He only emphasized the wailing despair of a brother historian, H. G. Wells: Destruction is not threatening civilization, it is hap pening to civilization before our very eyes. The ship o f civilization is not going to sink in five years, nor in fifty years. IT IS SINK ING NOW . The Despair of the Statesman Only three days before Dr. Shotwell, the historian, stood before the students of Stanford University, wailing forth his despair of man’s civilization, a correspondent of The Daily Express (London) had an interview with Pre mier Mussolini, of Italy. The correspondent referred to the United States as “ one of the life belts to which idealists are clinging for salvation in the world crisis.” The great Pre mier smiled derisively, we are told, and replied :
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