Show has has the church failed the question we lie have been considering in these articles for the gadt fist few weeks neck as its applying to our local conditions have been d dm lq in a it national and even international sense recently by the ablest minds in till this and oilier countries it is ii apparent to all thinking people that an art appalling pond exists an orgy fe of sills sin debauchery and lawlessness the church is 4 lt becoming billit deeply con 01 k tile question oll so often asked lias ila 4 the church failed fillici america and the world in ill this great moral crisis of 41 A high ligh rank both Cli christian ristian and are lifting voice und arid pen pert to prolific tho people to a sease of the tile dangers ahead history tells 11 us tint OVA after w acry cry groat there follows a period of lit unrest irest instability and crime after war pm cholody it is iq sometimes ailed called and when tile of the tho nations its that have been d in the life and death struggle have become set settled aled and and und strong enough to control tile lawless element and to protect life lift and apropo property arty tile the tile turbulence has as and pau and order lus has a a prevailed such a condition might inight bo be looked for in the tile war torn countries of europe where the tile ati authority thorit of government has been ser seriously bously shaken and where time will be required for the Mabil stabilizing izing of governments ern ments and peoples but what W aou 11 our own cotin country tryl t are any of im ready to concede that OUR floy govi rement ila lus failed has been u ho horn thorn of it its amer that it cannot maintain the tile peace and dignity of the landl I 1 think not then what is vi arong for we ue arii are compelled to admit that crime runs rampant in lit our land in lit 1 there were more murders committed in the cit of chicago than in all the umed kingdom in III a very becent of the tile question 11 estion has lla the church fail failed edt t rabbi wise of tho free synagogue of new york pos poli sibly americas foremost jew jews aspi essed hi ins hii i lears lean that tho the clitia church ea I 1 had failed and tuat the nation had become a moral bani bankrupt crupt bishop Alc Douell of the methodist f church hurch of if washington a great preacher and lebcher teb cher elter admits that tile country is 14 in lit a moral lump slump and that the crime wave and jazz ago age are tire he ile sa sas 8 there is a fundament ol disregard trel of 0 law lav and the setting of individual wish against the social good bile will have to be corr ro eted or it nu work works as it in is working irreparable injury to the tire republic if it goes its whole length it will ruin the republic lc Pe public cannot go wrong with gefen reference nce to law and coad out rig right ht with reference to civilization now exactly in lit harmony with was expressed in lit the first articles of this series as applied to our own community the bishop however looks hopefully to tile as the only institution that is in any large way trying to set forth jorth ideals and teachings of je jesus jus christ aud to got his spirit to prevail in the world in rn an eloquent address in chii city a week ago apostle ballard reviewed the situation in all its serious seriousness nev and in his opinion th the remedy lies in the operation cooperation of the church an tin athe home space will not permit a further contemplation of the matter at this time but next week I 1 should like to cite special instances of how the dragon of lawless lawlessness nevi flaunts ite its defiance in the very teeth of the authority of the government itself GEORGE christensen |