Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1924, Page 8

pol PAGE EIGHT St. Mark's Episcopal - ‘The Church and Her Creed ) REV. PHILIP K. EDWARL § There has been much discus htely concerning that article of t reed which declares that Chr lyas miraculously born of a virg fo I want to 9 you about the Place of th ife and the article that t creed. A hur shilosoph mite orga sospel to pr vatural that the 1s of it's howld be y express Pyoessage should press: 4 in a creed c aration of th: which it ts commissioned to preach Oind teach. It is also necessary that ch have a creed because in ries men have arisen in con “uston, sor ying that the church Mould teach one thing, 6 an mt reh order to I 4 straight and to the world has a creed the essen ‘The greed is to the Declaration to the country. fr you will read the creed you will ree that It's essence ts a declaration Ge peliet in the fatherhood of God. 4 of man, and that t there is the power ation of all men, ¢ the essence of the alth. Some of it’s lan fguage y he old fashioned, there y be some question about inter- 4pretation of this language but in Zits essentials it is n correct defini- ftion of the church’s faith. t Some people seem to think that Rhe church should be ashamed that These dis noncerning the ‘creed have 2 It is nothing to fhe ashamed of, it shows that the thurch is allve and thinking. A ichurch in which no question ever rises is a church that is dead. Nel- ther need the church be ashamed ‘that new ideas can gain acceptance in the church only after facing great opposition, it shows that the church has strength of mind and a sense of responsibility. A church that accepted new ideas without question would be lke those weak minded persons whom we all know who always belleve what they have been told by the last person who has talked with them. ‘When a church advertises itself to be without a creed it is giving it- pelf away. It is like the Platte river, half a mile wide and half an inch deep and exceedingly muddy. In other words, !t is so broad that fr is shellow and {it so muddled tn its idena of what its task is, that it has no definite message except the idiosyncrasies of the man who hap- pens to be the preacher; and in such a church he generally, instead of secking to bring his people more and more under the: influence ‘ot Jesus Christ, utters nothing but puertie, half-baked opinions on ec- onomics and politics and great mouthings of tommy-rot about everything under the sun except the gospel of Jesus Christ. In regard to the particular of the creed which is under 80) much dis- cussion just now, the one which de- clares that Christ was born miracu- lously of a virgin, there has been much sald, but. the chief argument against {t seems to be that it {s con- trary to modern science. Before you yield to the authority of modern science I want you to think of two things, First, modern science does not pretend to be able to explain all the secr: of even the material world, and when it comes to under. standing how the spiritual realities impinge upon the material modern iscter.ce it is utterly at a loss. When ever we deal with the things of God we are bound to come face to face with mystery and facts that }we cannot account for by material means. The great argument for the virgin birth is this, Jesus Christ himself was a moral miracle. The amazing. overpowering thing about him is that he was absolutely sinless, with no sense of sin within himself at all, That is the point at which his humanity differs from ow All of us inherit a taint of sin. When we are tempted, it is not only t the evil suggestion from without assails us but that there {s also the evil within which reaches out in answer to the evil without us. We are all of us conscious of that and the m saintly a man {s the mo izes that fact. a new creation, a new second Adam, In him fc time human nature {sm In such a nature God r self to the world. ‘This requires then a with the past of the h that Christs human na a real an nature break with the past in o that something new from above, a new step in creation, might be put into human nature. It 1s for this reason that the story of the virgin birth of Jesus has always appealed to the church and that she still holds to tt in the face of modern ways of think ing, | furthermore, {f Christ was born ‘ae other men are then he was simp. ly mw creature, instead of being the inearnation of Ged in human nature pne of the many prophets of religion. instead of the world's redeemer, and the ehurch instead of having a di vine message of salvation, is simply a human society preaching human guesses about God and man’s des: tiny While ft {a true that continuity dor men may time be Christian men and doubt of the v in birth, wnen it comes to changing that article of the ereed, It cannot be done without flestroying the whole idea of Christ- janity and msking Josus simply one of the prophets of the world. In the long run, where-ever men have denied the virgin birth they have lost the idea of Jesus Christ as their there for n the church's aviour and grown to think of him $ a wise man who lved centuries “go and who occupies about the “ame position, in their lives as Shakespeare or Karl Marx or Ra- indranath @agore or Mohammed wr any one of a thousand others to whose words they have taken a First Presbyterian REY. CHAS. A. WILSON the leaders took in Israe that the people | it willingly—bles | Lord These words from a song of vic tor: in J es, fifth chapter, se j ond verse are said to be “a gem n from the revised - ver 8 It tells the story of Is rael's victory over Jabin, king of the Cannanites, who had harrassed the chosen people, exacted tribute from them, and made them to feel heavy burdens of a cruel and ss oppressor. Debarah, the prophetess, from her place. of judgment in Mt. Epraim between Ramah and Bethel, called the peo- ple back to faith in God, aroused their fighting spirit, and under the leadersh'p of Barak a great victory over Jabin's vast army with 900 chariots was won at the river Kis- hon. It is an interesting story with lessons of hope and encourage- ment to all who contend against the aggregated forces of evil in our own day. A capable leadership, a willing and responsive people, as- sured of God, need not fear the outcome of moral conflict. Some- body must lead the way, and make the effort, arouse the people from ease and languor to face duty, and share the privilege and joy of as- sured victory. The root of moral evil is irreligion. The place to be- gin to correct the evil is with the conscience. The passing of laws may help to restrain evil,doers, but righteousness {s best established by EAST CASPER METHODIST REV. WILLIS H. GERMANY Society is today engaged in a fear- ful struggle to maintain its virtue. The Tribune of Sunday, January 27, carried an editorial worthy of deep- est consideration by all interested in high standards of society. Our editor has preached a more powerful sermon than the clergy could de- liver. As soclety we are beset by the law-breaking liquor element, the gamblers, and the thousand and one sinners against society, battering against the bulwarks of civilization, while the moral and respectable have stood abashed, thinking them- selves helpless. Says our editor, “The tendency and trend of the times is to moral degeneracy,” and he sounds the warning, lest this paroxysm of crime and sin, so gen- eral and overwhelming, stultify us into an insensibility of the solemn and tragic situation. W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal re- serve board of Boston, cries out his indictment. This whirlpool of iniquity has swirled against the pre- cincts of his own domestic life, and sucked down into its vortex the beautiful and winsome Miss Marga- ret. “Too much dancing and ciga- rette smoking.” Ye gods! the em- bodiment of the highest and holiest virtues, liberated from the thraldom of erstwhile bondage, today in her new liberty—playing the fool! 0, wonian, we grant you the equal right with man for all the breaches of morality, the deflections from the exalted standards .of womanhood created by our mothers, you have the right, with man, to indulge your selfish propensities, but at what a cost! in the face of this attack on the underpinnings of society, what shall we do? There's but one thing to do. Call back to memory the slogans of ‘17 and ‘18. Change “Whip the Kaiser” to “Whip the devil, “Do your bit,” “The Argonne,” “Smash the Hindenburg Line.” Get off the bleachers, get into the fight. Roll up your sleeve and make him swal- low his words who dare charge “Prohibition is a failure," “More crime today," etc. Read the editorial again, and heed the warning: “Unless the moral element throughout the coun- try arouses itself'and takes up the battle for common decency, the country may as well be turned over to the devil and be done with it.” AFRICAN METHODIST ’. J. BURWELL ol, 3:11, “God hath made iful in his time.” “The Secret of ‘Beauty.” mong the essential virtues yan character is that of And it may be said to have threefold manner of expression; ssession, recognition and apprecia- tion, One may have all of them; ut not one is complete without at t one of them. No one can be beautiful and fail to appreciate eauty, for that which {s within wit- ses the truth as presented with- out. ‘The source of beauty is in Gra for “he hath made everything beau- tiful in his time. What time fs here referred to? The time of creation, when God was making things, he made everything beautiful. The author was no doubt familiar with the opening chapters of Genesis, in which is: given the picture of dark- ness, confusion, disorder, and use- lessness. His spirit moved about, not being content with its environment, therefore an effort was made to change the same, God commanded that light should be, and so it was. And though not a word fs said about beauty 1 there is the suggestion, for when usefulness replaced use- lessness, and order replaced disor- der, it must have been beautiful. And man, following after the suggestion, coming from God, has tried to em- ulate the b- -‘tul. The first ad- miration perhaps -f beauty as a moral quality, was in the concep- tion of courage. At first the strong ETE EE ot calla NB Aik ALBIS CERT A IT iol SS A RNa So Ea Ts conscience, and a safe and intelli- gent conscience is the outgrowth of minds enlightened in Christian principles, and established in Chris- tian convictions. man was the hero. ee —_Le OO SO + EXCERPTS FROMSERMONSIN ||BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG V@GASPER CHURCHES PREACHED SUNDAY BY LOCAL PASTORS Wepe TeemEs —I™ 6tad LAST NIGHT « WELL. For SAM FRANCISCO POYTPONED “TO NEXT WEEK OFFICIAL ( JUST Saw BLOSSOM OUT HORSEBACK RIDING WITH ONE “THING Senne PLUS rc Sr Newr “YOU'RE KIDDING YOURSELF, WALT. LISTEN— HERE'S ame GIVE HER SOME COMPETITION. TAXE SOME OTHER GIRL OUT FOR A GOOD TIME AND PHYLLUS WILL WAKE UP AND THINK IT over! BOC MAY BE ALL. RIGHT IN THEORY BUT NOBODY ELSE: WOULD LOOK AT ME. AND \F 1 DID PHYLLIS WOULD FORGET ALL ABOUT ME, IT'S NO Saul and Jona- than were heroes because they were able single handed to attack and de- feat large numbers of the enemy. Bur the standard of beauty chang ed with succeeding generations, as evidenced by the song of the women whom he met on his return from battle which was as follows: “Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands.” David slew the giant more by use of craft and skill than by physical foree. And he was called beautiful because of his vic- tory. There is such a thing as moral beauty in the realm of service and devotion. I saw it last week in the devotion of a daughter to her mother who lay sick, utterly help- less. The twenty-first chapter of Revelation described for us the city of God, one mighty jewel. It is already the dwelling place of God the author of the beautiful. And when at last we are purged of our sins we shall behold God the beauti- ful, the inspiration of all that is beautiful, and will spend eternity understanding the beauty of whom who {8 spoken of in the text. LOOKED 10 POST By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) WASHINTON, Feb. 4.—The hour of surrender—a word which in his days of power he never recognized— came Sunday to Woodrod Wilson. And with it there wells up simul- taneously in the hearts of the people everywhere a sadness borne of ad- miration for the stoicism of a states- man who fought till the last for the ideal in which he believed. “I would rather fail” he used to in a cause that I know some will triumph than to win in a cause that I know some day will fail.” It was his philosophy of battle. To posterity he loked always for Vindi- cation. He never understod the word “compromise.” Even in his break down after the famous western trip, when it seemed as if the Versailles covenant of the league of nations was beaten in the senate, he scorn- ed defeat. Senator Hitchcock, Democratic chairman of the senate foreign rela- tions committee, who is in charge of the fight for the league of na- tions treaty, asked for an engage- ment. “I suppose he {fs coming to talk compromise,” commented Mr. Wil- son as he granted the engagement but he listened without surrender. All the world may say Woodrow ‘Wilson should have compromised and that today he would have had America a-member of the league with reservations. But to Woodrow Wilson it was an enduring principle —he could not barter what he thought was fundamental to the peace of the world. And he looked on ever since, waiting patiently for the turn in the tide—a turn that years of agitation may or may not bring but at the hour of his passing from the stage of life America re- mains outside the league he worked so ardently to establish. Trugic may be the ‘atmosphere, sor-ow felt by his friends and foes alike that he did not retain the ph sical vigor to continue his fight, praise for his courage—all this may be the comment of the outside world put not a word of pity or pathos did the Wilsonian temperament want, His was the spirit of a crus- ader. His was the tenacity of a soldier in a hand-to-hand fight. He never gave an inch. For years he was ready for death, He went forth on his western trip against the ad- vice of his physicians but with a smile of disregard for life itself. He used to say he would gladly give his CHARLES CHAPLIN’S “A WOMAN OF PARIS” STARTS TOMORROW AMERICA ERITY FOR Als VINDICATION IN PEACE FIGHT life for the cause of the league of nations. The remaining years of his life were meant to him only for the accomplishment of the greatest ideal of all—a world organization for peace. Scarred by the war, racked fn nerves, never forgetting the awful- ness of the combat in which he felt always a personal responsibility, he never could drive out of his mind the thoughts of the hundred thous- and American boys who died, as he thought, for an ideal and of the hun dreds of thousands who came home wounded and maimed in the service of the flag. “To make the world. safe for Democracy" was Mr. Wilson's war slogan. To his critics it became an empty phrase, But the idea of a war to end war never left Woodrow Wilson. Long after the American people began to turn their minds to domes- tic concerns and the material side of reconstruction, the broodings of Mr. Wilson over the breakdown of moral force continued. _He was arbi- trary in his views about a formula for world peace because he was in no mood for detail or distrust of other peoples or governments. All had worked together in the common partnership of war All had put thelr] armies and navies under. one com- mand and had given of their food and money and resources without stint for an ideal. The decision of 1917 meant to Woodrow Wilson a readiness on the part of America to assume obligations in the affairs of the world and to fulfill them.. The recession from this viewpoint he could never understand. In his last speech to the American people over the radio on armistice day Novem. ber 1923, Mr. Wilson was bitter in his denunciation of that policy. He called it “cowardly” and ignoble. And his words were resented by many. To the sick man in seculsion in the national capital it was out the last feeble attempt to bestir the people to a realization of the change that had come over them since they pled#d themselves in 1917 so wil- lingly to cooperation with the rest of the world without reservation. Seven years ago to a day almost— Saturday February 3, 1917—came the fateful turn in the career of Woodrow Wilson It was on that day that the United States severed diplomatic relations with Germany and ordered Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to go’ home. War followed two months later—a war that Woodrow Wilson never wanted to enter tho he felt for a Jong time prior to 1917 that Amert- can participation would sooner or later become imperative. He hoped against hope for an allied victory without the ald of the United States. As he steered the ship of state in what he believed was a course of benevolent neutrality, he prayed that the allf€® would end the war triumphantly and enable th- United States to play a role of peacemaker and healer of the wounds of war, But when war came he threw him- self into the fray with an abanddn that wiped the mistaken phrase “Too proud to fight” out of the vocabulary of his crities for once and all. The selective service act— compulsory military service—some- thing which under the dread term of “conscription” had shaken the other democracies of the world to their foundations was recommerded by him with a suddenness tha* made everybody gasp. But it enabled American to put two milion men into Europe ara turn the tide of battle toward the ultimatic virtory. It was Woctrow Wilson who from the first fought for unity of command on land and sea and the brushing aside of technical soy- ereignty in the interest of self pres- ervation of the allied peoples. His infitlence In the scales made Foch’ the generalissimo and enabled the fleets of the allies to be combined for effective operation under the Brtiish high command. The hectic days of the war with their worries and burdens that his friends thought would break him down were weathered triumphantly but he set sail for,the peace confer- ence with a heart saddened by the loss of both houses of congress after his ill-fated appeal of 1918 for ‘a Democratic congress. He had been thinking of the partisan attack be- hind his back in the war days. He Was a partisan too. His appeal for a Democratic congress was based on the belief that he would be able the better to make peace. Hs oppon- ents construed his statement as a reflection on their patriotism. His advisers and friends begged him to deny it and‘set the country straight. He never issued a word of defense, he never changed a syllable of the sentence. He never made a public comment on the verdict. He felt that if the Republican congress would sive him the proper co-operation in ‘making peace, the result would speak for itself—it would prove that he was wrong. If the Repub- lican congress blocked his peace ef- forts, as he predicted, the country would know why he appealed for a Democratic congress. GARNER OPENS FIGHT ON TAX (Continued from Page One) ‘will be drafted this week and pres- ented formally to the house on next Monday, the day on which the Re- publican conference directed it be reported. Republicans of the committee who have been working by themselves on the incomerate sections will wind up details of these schedules today or tomorrow after which Chairman Green Will call in the whole com- mittee to formally ratify the entire bill, which is expected to be done on a party vote so far as the income rates are concerned, the Republt- cans having selected the rates pro- posed by Secretary Mellon. Mr. Green also plans to take up on the floor, if time cxffords, the constitutional amendment reportea by the committee to permit the gov- securities as well 4s all state and city governments to tax federal ernment to tax state and municial securities. It is aimed to open about $11,000,000 of present exempt securi- ties to taxation. CHARLES CHAPLIN’S “A WOMAN OF PARIS” STARTS TOMORROW AMERICA The events that followed convino ed Mr. Wilson that the Republicans would make a partisan issue of the league of nations and that the peace treaty and he was still so conti dent of the opinion of the American people that he wanted a referendum | in the election of 1920 to decide the ssue. But Mr. Wilson's precepts of government, his theories of parlia- mentary government and the prac- tical side of American politics es- pecially in a presidential year were at variance. Thirty one prominent Republicans, including Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes and Herbert Hoover interpeted the Republican national platform of 1920 and the views of Warren Harding the Re- publican presidential candidate as meaning that ‘a vote for Harding” was a vote “for the league with res- ervations” And even on top of that Woodrow Wilson hoped for vindi- cation in 1924. He watcher the man- eyvers of the candidztes. None but James M Cox has been mentioning the league of nations but the re- moval of Woodrow Wilson from the politica! stage will not mean that his party will forget. William Gibbs McAdoo, son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson has publicly declared for the Bok peace plan which provides for entry of the United States into the league of nations wtih suitable res- ervations and proper safeguar(s on American sovereignty and independ- ence Mr. McAdoo may or may not be heir to the Wilson strength in the United States but he has al- ready indicated his willingness to take up the battle for the league. telegraph collect. Two cents per word or ten cents per line. NO AD LESS THAN 30 CENTS. Five average words used as @ basis of estimating a line. BLACKFACE eine le py ria Se will be charged the space of All charged sdvertising will be booked “set lines” irrespective of the number of CORRECTION OF CDASSIFIED AD ERRORS. 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