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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE j M This is not a bad slogan for the set la.'s: Back to tho Bible and the! dust it ii t ion ' The Bible must romo first. It is older than the Constitution It has seen more service. It has been tested, out in fiercer trials. It speaks with an authority nothing else possesses The men who would send the lJible to the slug dump are not likely to lead us to any thing better Men who cannot trust God are not safe leaders' for their fellowmen to trust. The race has not worked out a bet-! tei system of mo'iils than ihe Ten Commandments and the Sermon on ihe Mount Anv soej,t order thai despises de-spises these sublime moralities gives no promise of a better day America needs to get back to thel Bible That j., where wc started. The men who founded this nation were not i atheists. They had been trained in a sehool of life where the Bible was thc text book It was men thus trained who gave' us the Constitution. It Is a document of freedom built upon rights revealed In thesnered scriptures. The franors of the. Constitution diel not find the divine right of kings in the Bible. Tney did riot therefore write so arro- bbbbbbKj the Constitution Bl Thev did fln.l the divine rights of HOW! the' common man In the Bible ;,nd BsbbkL these are the nghts guaranteed In the HBtfi Constitution. This is the difference sbR ".we,... the worn-out governhv nl Of tho old world and the republic t the pi -sam rosc to a level with Mjnfl the peer, and common life was dow- L iT? red with an the privileges and per- ' quisftes of freedom. v aBl& It Is a freedom with restraints: the issBB freedom to do right, to think without sHUtf "V" "' wlthoui conscription; to Bffif worship without persecution bu . Hi safe. Anybody who. would be bcUef than the Bible has a goodness? that Wt must be suspected. 1 fUsBtli It Is easy to make promises. Anv EBR beggar can do that. But here are tw ' ' |