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only discovery they made was that they were naked. One of the chief lines of attack being made by our modern instructors in atheism, is to recite cases of catas trophes, accidents and various afflictions as proof that there cannot be a God. Tracts setting forth the depressing details of horrible things that have happened, are being sent, in many cases to those who are known to be sick and afflicted, especially those known to be Christians. These leaflets usually end with the words: ' “These are heartlessly cruel and, terrible permittances of this much-vaunted deity. IVhat sort of people believe there is a God?” We are told, for instance, of a mother who placed her baby in a crib in the yard. She goes into the house to attend to her bread. When she comes back the baby is. gone. An eagle had swooped down and carried off, her baby. It is argued that such things woul,d not be .per mitted by a. just God. Either God could not or would not prevent it. If He could, not, He is not all-powerful. If He would not, He is not good. I mportant P oints O verlooked The atheist overlooks several very important points in this "argument. He assumes that all suffering is an arbi trary punishment inflicted by Godj whereas the Scriptures assert that in,-view of man’s deliberately turning his back upon God, he must reap the natural fruit of his doings.
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The Devil’s Angels T HE name of the Los Angeles chapter of the A.A.A.A. is christened “The Devil’s Angels.” At Rochester, N. Y., the branch is called “Damned Souls.” The Los Angeles Times editorially says: “Both names seem to be descriptive, as well as picturesque.” Continuing, in the same article, the editor says: “To dispose of the religious instincts ..of .a people is a bigger job than these iconoclasts imagine. It may be.well to remember the prophecy of a noted French Deist something over a century ago.’ He gave the Bible a hundred, years to be forgotten. It is still the best seller. These attempts to wreck faith will prove a boomerang. While Ingersoll was made an, agnostic by the narrow conception of Deity held by his preacher-father,, he wrought'great good in driving devout people to greater tolerance. Hate has been found to be the greatest ■ heresy!” One Homer Bartchy, a 16-year-old high-school atheist of Los'Angeles, got-his chance to complain, through a let-
newspaper, that Los An- ter to a geles schools were not giving a square deal to thèir atheistic stu dents. 'He says that he has been practically forced to stop his atheistic activities'among the stu dents in order to rèmain in school. He is almost bitter in his declaration that atheism .has as much right in our high schools as Christianity. But is Christianity in our schools.? ' 1 Some day Homer will be old enough to see the weak spot in his contention. He is complain ing because he is not allowed to organize an atheistic society in the schools. ' Neither can ‘the Methodists, ' or Baptists or any church organize in the schools or lise a school for propaganda pur poses. He seems to want priv ileges that are not accorded to any Christian group. As one editor says: “Any way, it’s a smart boy who has discovered at sixteen that there is no God.!’ Believe Ye In God? T HE American Association f o r the Advancement of Atheism has engaged to open the eyes of the public to the proposi tion that there is no God. Some how we are reminded of the au thors of the first philosophy which discounted Go/d. They like wise engaged to open the eyes of the public. They did so. The
“God is not mocked; for what soever a man soweth that ■shall he also-reap.” As all nature adheres to the law laid down in Genesis, and- each species brings forth, - i “after- his -* kind” so like begets like in the- moral realm, God has warned, sinners that it shall be so. Sin sets in motion a train of causes which lead to increas ingly disastrous effects. Did not this law operate,- and were the human race permitted to sow to the flesh and the devil with no check whatever, the race would quickly become extinct. It is the law of God, and it operates for the perpetuity of the race, re gardless of the difficulties the finite mind may have in explain ing individual cases. By far the greater part of pain and misery is brought about by the direct wickedness and folly of men. It is man’s own doing, not God’s, and what sense is there in the atheist trying to lay it upon the Christian’s God ? The Chris tian himself, if he is enlightened at all, does not attribute many of . his afflictions to God. If a man chooses to sit on the safety valve of an engine, whose fault is it if he gets burned? And even though such a result was not fore seen by the man, and he should be killed, it is an open question whether it is worse for him to die suddenly in this manner than to die, as most people do, slowly after a long illness. If he is a
His life and^rucifixlon that Jesu8 lived- f0r I assassination BM jHM fij w | know of the j .knowledge of the far, Dt McKinIe^ Their 1 , Is writing to encorné f. assumed, and he that He would ret^n 1“-thelr ! «fens to other 1 — M M them he [Wise suffered tfrom ih * S0CIeties who like-’I Imrd Jesus”—spoken I t ^ ‘'kiIled B them. The assnmnn0i aS a fact known to i In the Epistle, as ^nowledge j writings, is evidence «urn i f eA Testament tion of the approximafeif 1 *’ for ass«mP- and death of Jesus as thpcontemP°rary life church contrary to f B B H f f l ot * I have been sheer folly ™^wn. fact would j Aside from the gospel concordance and aside from recent confirmative archeological discoveries the first letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians is in itself sufficient evi dence to one not agnostically-minded. St, Paul fs not writing to confirm the Christian j H acking at the foundation So-called Godless youth can’t, be blamed, when,a minister will declare from his pulpit, as occurred in Los Angeles re cently, that “we have not sufficient evidence to prove that. Jesus Christ ever lived.” Un less Jesus Christ was, the whole fabric of Christianity is humbug. “The 'composite ideal which people have built up during the last 1900 years, and called the Christ” is not sufficient, as the minister asserts it to be, for no ideal founded upon falsehood can suffice. It is not sufficient because it is less than the whole, there being ample evi dence that Jesus lived.
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