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Show RELIGIOUS INCONSISTENCY. A real, new life-like Unitarian minister has come to town, and to say that he resembles his departed de-parted predecessors is putting it mildly. He has the same nice English, the same inconsistencies of doctrine, the simon pure pride of intellect of all his fellows which compels him to elevate himself far, very far, mentally and pedagogically, above Christ and Paul, above the gigantic intellects of every age, combined. In one paragraph he essays to tell the Christian church what it must do and in the next he asserts the Christian religion is founded found-ed on falsehood, and that the religious ideas of Jesus were repudiated and discarded when Christianity Chris-tianity was made the state religion - by Constan-tine. Constan-tine. All this vaporing is enough to summon from their lonely, tombs Boniface, the apostle of Germany, Ger-many, 500 years after Constantine's death; St. Patrick Pat-rick of Ireland, Augustine of England and all tho great Roman Catholic evangelists too numerous to mention, who went into forbidding and alien lands at the tremendous sacrifice of all that makes life dear and transformed their savage peoples into civilized civ-ilized Christian manhood and womanhood. When these friends and servants of Jesus Christ, the son of God, after whom we date our years, entered these wild and sterile wastes of European climes they saw no evidences of justice, equality, fraternity, frater-nity, love, forgiveness and charity. They found the heart of man absolutely barren and as wild as the desert plain, its soil not even prepared for the Christian seed. And after a few brief years spent in these unhealthy and unholy climes and amid strange, ignorant human beings, behold the desert blossomed like the virgin summer rose. Universities, Universi-ties, edifices of learning, dotted the land. Hospitals, Hospi-tals, temples of mercy, were born in a night. No more need unfortunate men be cast into lonely places to die unattended and accursed. The Father Fath-er Damiens, the Brother Duttons and the innocent inno-cent but lion-hearted sisters of charity were on the firing line to yield their lives if necessary as did their eariler brothers and sisters of the son of David, Da-vid, whose flesh was torn and bones crunched by the purposely starved wild beasts of the amphitheatre amphithe-atre at Rome. And these Unitarian ministers and all their ilk who prate and f rattle in human words and human wisdom to destroy that which was built on the blood of God and his martyrs, and who in their miserable pride elevate their intellects above Christ and Paul, and who maintain that God left mankind and the world in doubt, speculation and spiritual darkness, denying that a personal Almighty Al-mighty God created man, thereby giving to an unchecked, un-checked, undefined blind force the credit they refuse re-fuse to God, resemble the tigerish, famished wild beasts of the Roman arena. But let them take heed ere it is too late, for as surely as the sun must rise and set before a flower can grow they will one day stand as naked as when they came into the world before Christ and the twelve apostles for eternal beatitude or reprobation, and if it should be the latter they will, like devils blaspheme1 the mothers that gave them birth. They shame heaven with their inconsistencies, for while they prate against materialism they foster it. They are so stupidly and stubbornly blind that they cannot see that if man is a product of blind forces with no accountability account-ability before him beyond the grave he has a perfect per-fect right to seek inordinate wealth; to keep it to himself, to be indifferent to tho sufferings of those around him, especially of his enemies; to gratify all his lustful pleasures, no matter how unnatural. In fact, .under a material conception of man's origin or-igin he is entitled to all the unholy fruits of materialism. ma-terialism. Before the destroying march of Unitarian Unitar-ian ministers and all that multitude that deny the God that bought them, trampling on the blood of their Creator ,as demons trample on a damned soul, we would be compelled to banish the word unlawful from our minds, our books and our laws. We would be forced merely to do the impossible, to safeguard safe-guard society this side of the tomb and society cannot be safeguarded from its own distorted ideas. Human society has an ineradicable trait to be easily swayep!. Today it will cry Hosannah to the Son of David, and tomorrow it will scream in diabolical rage, crucify him, crucify him, we have no king, but Caesar. Under materialism, Unitarian or any other brand there need be no obedience of the child to the parents, no faithfulness of the employe in any position of trust, no fidelity in the husband's friend and the husband's wife, in fact it i3 the doctrine doc-trine of earthly anarchy in the home and in the state. No wonder Christ cursed the fig tree when he found it barren of fruitful deeds, for nothing is said that shall not be made known, and seed sown by the reformers has produced many barren fig trees that bear no fruit, but stand in the ripened orchard of God an eye sore to men' until the harvest time. |