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Show THE FAILURE OF THE CHURCH. The church has had a supreme opportunity to incorporate Christ's spirit and work in the civilization civili-zation that beari.IIis name. Tt has had a supreme opportunity to make men moral, in the sense of fitting fit-ting them to live as individuals and as members of society. But, in the light of its high aim and vast opportunity, it has not done so. Actuated by the spirit of its Founder, and dedicated to do His work, it certainly has been. Yet it has failed; and the evidence of its failure exists in the fact that today the greatest moral forces of civilization are outside o fthe Church, and, in a large measure, working independently in-dependently of it. Professor George K. DaAVSon, Ph. D.. in the Homiletic Review. If the Church did not make men nioral who did? During the time when Pagan Rome was disappearing, disappear-ing, until Martin Luther started a festering sore which has given mankind every species of crazy religions imaginable and infidels in number as the sands of the sea, mankind was gradually wrested from ignorance, paganism and all manner of ungodly un-godly immorality by the leaven of the Roman Catholic Cath-olic church. The '"reformers" found all Europe practically civilized and Christianized, but what would they have been able to do with the wild tribes of the fifth century, and before that time which the Catholic Church rescued from the mighty sea of dense illiteracy and religious darkness? Men like Professor Dawson and those great forces of morality and civilization which he boasts are outside the church (there are still greater forces within the Church of Rome) are basely robbing Christ and His Catholic bride of their labor, for those men and Svomeu who carry on philanthropic works outside the church inherited the fruits of the tree of love and charity, which the Savior planted from their ancestors that lived in obedience to the Catholic Church, founded by the Redeemer. To think of the base ingratitude of Vse people who-toil who-toil for the uplift of humanity outside the church is enough to make angels weep. Had it not been for their mothers and fathers for generations back being be-ing taught the Christian principles of love, charity and good works, by the Catholic Church which received re-ceived them from the magnificent Son of God, they would today be uttering wild war crys, brandishing weapons of carnage and slaying one another without with-out a knowledge of learning or of God! What blasphemous and ignorant thoughts the proud and thoughtless entertain! They hurl their javelins at the mighty pyramids of the Catholic Church, not leaving for their memory the mark of a single dent upon them, and are gone the way of all dust, unwept, un-wept, unhonored and unsung. |