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Show BLAMES CHURCH FOR CONFLICT Evanston Divine Asserts Present Day Religious Institution Weak (Special Dispatch.) EVANSTON, Wyo. Feb. 27.- The Christian church was. of all Institutions, Institu-tions, most responsible for the Kreat world war, according to the Rev Or Georgf? Chambers Richmond, who de-llvered de-llvered a sermon on "The Collapse of Civilisation' in the Methodist church Sunday niphl He said: The crcai wai was a war of human necessity. The time had come for the liberation ol human nature I'nder the inspiration of Christianity men in all quarters of thp earth had made such j rapid moral and spiritual expansion thai nnlv in a great war could Ihev give evidence of prowth and progress Here we behold th failure and col lapse of BO-called Christian civillza i tion ll was not Christian and it was ! not civilization. It whs baptized pac I an ism and sacrajmentalfled religion llnth togeiher they made up such a ma.ss of materialised Inst itut ionalism thai wat was Ihe only result of neres-1 neres-1 slty. LACK MORAL UNITY "The Christian church was of all in stitutions the most to blame for the last war, through continual dissensions, dissen-sions, its lack of moral unity, to say nothing of its external separations, land Us bondage lo cheap propaganda Through all this the church Is in a Mull- of moral collapse and spiritual I fright. The clergy all over our land I should demand a greater degree of I moral freedom and Intellectual liberty than at present Is seen in their ranks. (The world demands a new Interprets Uon of Christianity. New voices must be heard in our pulpits. Men do not want new doctrines, new treaties or I dogma, or new creeds They demand that we ministers come down off our high horses of denominational exc'.u Islveism and Join hands with science and modern knowledge In order to erect on earth a beginning of God's 1 kingdom for men. TOO MUCH OF FUTURE "The church has thought loo much of a future life, a heavenly existence and future reunion of loved ones. This is not of Christianity's inmost teach Ings or subllmest emphasis It is ma terlallsm baptized in religious fervor Since rnnim- 'u Wyoming I have been ashamed over and over again at the moral fear and spiritual cowardice ol our clergy. Even a bishop who ought lo have courage and apostolic zeal had the caution to beseech me to 'soft pedal my preaching' against sin and sinful conditions for fear of financial losses resulting to his missionary enterprises en-terprises We want to see Christianity Chris-tianity exemplified in our dally busi aess and in our national institutions The early bishops and priests who came to Wyoming years ago hob nobbed nob-bed with saloon keepers, liquor men and enunhlers and were so easv v.ith them that they made but little moral impression on them and did almost nothing to erect here a great spirit ual and independent religious church v. huh should revolutionize our western west-ern societv CHURCH, WEAK AS RULE "The church in many of our Wyoming Wyom-ing towns Is a weak and very poor moral leader. As a rule one or two families of the old order of morals control it, or some immoral or political or cheap financial boss seeks to dominate domi-nate Its affairs Bishop Thomas of Laramie tried to shut off my preach ing and I have preached twice as much as a result . "Give us deeds, perform a few modern mod-ern miracles, stop talking about what Jesus did and try to do yourself what Jesus said His church could do, greater great-er things than He did Get together Stop whining about the laying on of hands. Grasp ihe meaning of modern knowledge, pure hands and hearts and set out marching to the rnusiic of hu inanity." oo |