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An SHALL WE USE THE SOFT PEDAL? Editorial by Rev. “Bob” Shuler, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Los Angeles, California, in his magazine which he calls “Bob Shuler’s Magazine.” F YOU had four boys and two little girls, born in this wonderful America, for whom on bended knees you prayed, that the God of their father might give to their feet those paths of idealism and Christian standards that were yours in your childhood; and beheld all about you a mighty gathering of forces that threatened to uproot and annihilate the priceless teachings and glorious inheritances that you covet for your children, say friend, would you get up and “shuck your coat” and double up your fist and fight? Would you or would you not! If you had been taught to love the constitution of your nation, to respect her laws and regard those authorities set for their enforcement as too noble for purchase and too courageous for intimidation; and you should look about you and find a storm cloud of anarchy to right and left, men by the thousands who despised the constitution of your nation and hated her laws; men who dared boast of hav ing purchased the very officers set for the safety of your community, say friend, what would you do? Would you rise up and whet your sword and swear by all the boldness God had ever given your heart that such forces must be driven back? Would you or would you not! If you from childhood had been taught the glorious truths of Protestant Christianity and knew how courag eously those Protestant martyrs had gone to flaming stakes and bloody blocks and swinging ropes of hemp that they might give to America and other nations of the world the right to worship God according to the dictates of the con science of the worshipper; and you should look and lo, there comes a marching army, bloody with the blood of martyred thousands, threatening to lay the heavy hand of religious tyranny upon your nation’s throat, dominate her courts, control her public press, throttle her schools and prohibit the reading of the word of God within them, say friend, would you sit calmly by or would you leap and meet this foe as those who gave you life have met this self same enemy of freedom on the battle field? Would you or would you not! If many years ago you knelt in child-like, simple faith and accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour and through the years had fought untiringly to do His will and serve His cause, believing in His deity, in his Virgin birth and that heaven-wrought conception that was His within a Virgin’s womb, looking to Calvary and holding stubbornly that His shed blood upon that cruel tree paid the price you could not pay and ransomed you from sin, turning with eyes full of grateful tears from Calvary to behold the empty tomb from which your Saviour came, having con quered death and given to your heart hope of life forever more; and you should hear the muttering of the coming storm of infidelity, posing as the very friend of Christ, while it denies all that is vital in His claim, say, friend, what would your attitude be? Would you march like a crusader in support of that cross and battle like a man and a disciple for that Christ? Would you or would you not! Then turn your eyes, my friend, and note the coming of the foe. This is no day for sleeping. This is no hour for whimpering babes, full grown in stature. This is no time for those who claim they are Americans and Protestants and Christians to preach the soothing gospel of pacifying apology. This is the noon of that great dawning day when men who are the sons of real Americans and also the sons of God shall march as true men march—to battle!
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