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Show j MATERIAL EVILS OF SOCIETY Unitarian Heresy on Political Philosophy Mission of Church, Not of State, to Sanctify Its Citizens Morality Insep- arable From Belief in the Divinity of Christ Divorce Evils Results of Refor- I mation Truth Spoken in Jest Verified i Modern Evils Effect of Rejecting Fu- ! ture Punishment. ? I - 1 remains for our citizenship to say whether t ' ibis nation shall accept its divine task of hallowing l the lives of all who dwell beneath its flap: by incar- ' nating in all its aims and policies the sacred hopes and faiths of men, or whether it shall follow iis ici' 'liied predecessors to the limbo of unrcgretted ; ,,li!ivion." Rev. William T. Brown, j There is not in human existence a scintilla of historical evidence, traditional or otherwise, that ' (Jod ever gave to any nation except Israel a divine I task. The state is what the individuals are that I compose it. The state derives it collective morality I from its citizens, not the citizens from the state. 3!r. Brown does not seem able to grasp this truth J cf political philosophy. Xo state or nation can hallow the lives of its citizens. A religious institution divinely formed and empowered is the only means of making lofty i the morals of a people. The commercial and ma- torialistic tendency of American society is due solely to their non-Catholicism. To have a moral man and woman, the child must be instructed in J tlit 1en commandments and told emphatically the I eternal truth, that a violation persisted in despite the voice of conscience will merit everlasting per- I dition. A firm belief in the divinity of Christ is die only dogma that can or will save the world. lKMroy that truth universally and pagan savageism i inaugurated. The miseries we observe in the so- I in system, divorce, free love, worldly enjoyment ! iind st'iisual indulgence, are due not to the Roman Catholic church but to the rejection by millions of neople of the doctrine that she is the church of HoJ authoritatively empowered to teach God's j manifested will to men. Prior to the ''Reformation''' the Christian portion of the world witnessed no J Mich multitude of complete domestic' separations as it has since that event. In fact simultaneously with Martin Luther's revolt human-passions burst I into a troinondous conflagration throughout Eu- n-pe and its Humes have not yet been extinguished. j 1 lie dociriues that life is an eternal sleep and that men should eat, drink and be merry because they I would quickly enter the grave and never rise again imto life everlasting or unto hideous shame to see I it always received great impetus and ncourage- j merit in the sixteenth century rebellion against vpiritual authority. ! Men began to put away their wives, the mothers I of their children, for younger women, but there is j no evidence to disprove God's promise "to such, that ihey are now in a dreadful hell with parched I t. 'tidies Mistered from dreadful thirst wherein they I ruve like famished lions and blaspheme unceasingly i 'lie Cod that died on Calvary for them. We are also told by Hebrew monks and prophets "Miod that many in hell shall cry out to Him, "Iho way of life was evil spoken of." Yes, ? the way of life was always opposed to the wisdom I of i, w,;rld. Christ left the invisible substance of iU nivme nature that partakers of the sacred sac- i rainem 0f t1(J Holy Eucharist should be powerfully j roi-gthf.jK.r to battle with the world the flesh and I devil. Rut human wisdom laughs sarcastically a! sii.-h ;1 doetrii jnd it remains on the broad way t" deMruetiou. Christ remains on His altars j 'hrougliout the whole world rejected and despised, j x-opt by approximately 300,000.000 Catholic pe:- 1'1-. many of whom after participating in the sac- i ranient ,,f penance and solemnly promising Christ j hi the (viufcs-ional that they will amend their lives live godly, go on in sin. And these wicked j ( aiholie, Judas Iscariots are the very individuals 'S which non-Catholics judge the purity and power -"r !"?!:'. dji- . -ss of the church of Rome. But woe j sn,'h !opravid Catholics, they will according to !mM s I'voinise, which no one has yet disproved, j Ciaw ih. Ir aching; hearts out in hell, in the com- 1 'u,s'''!'.v i' -oeiatibn of those who hate them. The ; i' ,plrs iv!;,,iilPf.s Gr Cnose who, born in the truth and I .-i beoounng raging waves of the sea, stars, of 'r-vte-.s to whom the storm of eternal night is re- j 'fil ir,.V(.r js (,,1C c 1C jnost lerrible sights in ll-it' r's kingdom of nameless terrors. 1 wicked Protestant, whatever the name Pro- implies in our times, will be damned as will " evil. lustful, hypocritical, blasphemous Catholic 'll0- sit. -r Ik inc born in the truth lives like a hu- I nisn fi.-nd. .-au.ip terrible scandal. !' f i V' T. Brown is keenly alive to the . '! our present commercialism, but he seem-j)v seem-j)v r'iin""' observe causes. America is a Pro- . t 'J2111 l!H,ior'- educates millions of boys and I til'" i;n nfidr lie system. Consequently when 'y i-e;i,., raatliri1v tj1(,y iinij no niore of God and !fn fouimandments than they do of Julius rrasai a!"l bis historical commentaries. They I ejlr m"rp rfverence for the Deity than they I Jv fr'r human ruler. Whatever of goodness and ij'p'n,pal morality is in the w;orld is. due to the Ro- 1 :ii 'bolic church. Whatever evils and material- 1 ln'M't.v Pxist. in the universe live in spite of i a,lv JPMa!itism inauguraled quickly the idea that I lp, f'n"rch and religion were good enough so Jmt8 1,'ra1(',fI bis fellow man right. It was I a far cry from that to the human dogma that I the world could get along 'without any church or even without a God for that matter. After these developments came the jesting commandment, "Do your fellow man or he will do you." What was said in jest ha,s become a real worldly rule, thereby proving prov-ing the old proverb, "That many a true word is said in jest." Yet it is not a true word, but a lie passing as the truth. Consequently we have thousands of men and women being cheated in commercial life who would use no man dishonorably. We have others oth-ers cheating one another unceasingly. The rejection of Christ's Godliness and His promise to damn all those who disobey Him, and lhat they shall abide forever with the Master they serve while in the flesh, either Himself or Satan, and the consequent growth in atheism are the causes of the evils in society. The evils Ihemselves arc, of course, logical results. RICARDO. |