OCR Text |
Show THE 110 NEEDS " m w in. Pastor Says that Evolution and not Revolution is Needed to Correct Wrong. ! The Desorot News quotes the Rev. R. P Nichols of Salt Lake City as stating in his sermon last Sunday that what the nation needs is evolution and not revolution, revo-lution, and that to bring about the needed changes, good men are necessary: 'The Rev. R. P. Nichols of the IlifF Methodist church declared in Sunday's sermon that what tho country needs is a national evolution. Ho said in part: "Changes in the order of society and of tho individual may be secured se-cured oithor by revolution or evolution. ev-olution. Destruction and construction con-struction seem as opposito words ail can bo found. Yet sometimes the best destructive work is brought about by constructive. Tho way to destroy evil often may bo to build up good. Reforms Re-forms are frequently best assured, as-sured, not by suppression of evil, but by some substitution of'good. "Destruction and construction go hand in hand; destruction preceding the work of construction. construc-tion. It is impossible to build up tho kingdom of God unless there bo some effective destroying destroy-ing of evil. But .norals like na-turo na-turo abhor a vacuum. When evil has been routed something must be introduced into tho vacant lifo. "Our fathers made this mis-tako, mis-tako, not indeed in freeing them-boIvcs, them-boIvcs, but in the leaver which they introduced into tho young republic. Thoy understood revolution, rev-olution, .not evolution. Thoy do-sired do-sired tho individual to bo free to push his own way. It has so worked that now the government govern-ment is weakor than tho corporations. corpor-ations. If wo aro to mako America Amer-ica freo, wo must work according accord-ing to tho law of leaven. Evolution Evolu-tion is higher and mightier than revolution. Cooperation, not competition, that is the spirit of Christ. To teach lovo and service, ser-vice, which is the thing society needs today. Tho supremo way to overthrow tho kingdom of Mammon is to bring in tho kingdom king-dom of heaven. "But tho reign of liberty and equality cannot come to tho United States until it is tho possession pos-session of tho individual citizen. God deals with tho individual. That is Christianity's power. God is building empires by building build-ing individual citizens. Tho greatest gift tho world can have today is a righteous, full grown man. |