King's Business - 1919-10

892 T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S Yon could go out and secure some subscriptions and have an oppor­ tunity to do some personal work and stir some people to a new realization of the seriousness of living in these days. Now we have placed the matter before you the best we know how, and we leave it with you and the Lord. We will be glad to have any suggestions from you or any help you are led to give us. God bless you and make you all that He would have you to he in these last days.—T. C. H. IS the Human Race Going on the Rocks ? The above is the title of a remarkable editorial from a daily paper— one of the largest in the United States, the Los Angeles Times; and we are giving the major part of it because it portrays in such pungent terms the story of unregenerate human nature and the fearful conditions confronting the Church of God. One would search in vain in any of our denominational papers for such an arraignment of humanity. In those papers, for the most part, we hear the soft notes of the flute and the soothing message of “ all is well.” We hear the talk of the birth pangs of a new era and the high-sounding, pomp­ ous proposal of a new program for the saving of the world. We would suggest that after reading this note of warning from the secular press, you get your optimistic friends to read it and thus help them to have an open vision to things as they really are: One-half of the world Is ablaze, th e o ther h alf smoldering. The half capable of saving th e property already on fire is ju st now over-occupied checking th e spread of th e conflagration to its own home buildings. A “ suave qui p eu t” sp irit is a t p resen t the dom inant incentive to most hum an action. F o r hum anity is only ju st emerging, somewhat fearfully, somewhat reck­ lessly, from th e shadow of a g rea t crime. The dawn of peace is obscured in the cloud rack th a t follows th e w ake of th e w ar tempest. F o r th e tim e being th e tendency of social forces is tow ard discord and dis­ in teg ration . A lmost every newspaper dispatch, foreign and domestic, affords evidence of th is dangerous trend. England, F rance, Germany Redivivus, the th ree balance wheels, are runn ing ou t of true. Our people a t home are fre ttin g und er new laws and new obligations; re st­ less and irritated , they are tu rn ing away from th e wisdom of th e ages. These psychological causes are m anifest in violent disturbances. The whole world is mutinous. * * * * * Chicago is counting its dead and in ju red and figuring th e damage bill afte r a week of rio t th a t apparen tly sta rted from nothing and ended in nothing. Yet it had a lesson for school children— and statesmen. It dem onstrated plainly the demoralizing example of th e rage for sensation among th e “higher-ups” on those who are igno ran t and prone to lawlessness. The selfish individual drives his high-power motor a t breakneck speed along the public highway. The radical labor-unionist calls a strik e to bring him self into spectacular prominence. * * * The an arch ist lies low in his cellar and would un seat the m ighty w ith a bomb. The same perilous sp irit in a varying degree anim ates all these defiers of society. Nothing is more destructive to th e S tate th a n th e “ public-be-damned” spirit. All those who delight in shocking th e ir neighbors, who glory in th e ir improprieties, play into th e hands of th e lawless. The wild g irl who immodestly exposes w hat she considers h er n a tu ra l charm s on a public w ater front, th e wild man who secretly cherishes a h atred for his supposed wrongs again st all happy

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