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THE THINGS THAT COUNT
]hj Frederick Palmer
“Not so very Christ masy, not so very Christian,”
said a cynic to me m France on Christinas Day,
1^17—“not with !h.j Christians of the world engag
ed in slaughtering one another by millions
“Think how much worse it might have been if
we had not Christianity!” I replied. “There would
not have been millions to slaughter in this grand
war spree. Most of them would have been killed
off piecemeal, without benefit of clergy, before the
war began.”
“Think how much worse it might have been ex
cept for Jesus Christ!” is always sufficient answer
for the very smart man who points out, in terms
of ridicule, the inconsistency ot our personal con
duct and our conduct as nations with Christian
principles.
When Christ was born on that first Christmas
Day. 1924 years ago, Roman power and civilization
were reaching their height. Roman armies gave
quarter only to bring fresh captives home to the Ro
man slave market. Human being were set to
slaughter each other and to be torn to pieces by wild
beasts to make sport for the bleachers and grand
stands of the Coliseum.
Romans were as accustomed to the agonizing
groans of crucified thieves and offenders along the
Appian way as we are to the traffic officer s whistle.
Baseball and football in our coliseums today, and
union labor in place of slave labor, might be tame
to a Roman but they are Christian, and Rome was
pagan.
Man’s narrowness has tried to confine in little
tunnels the mighty current that flowed from Galilee.
He has made controversies over texts; he has set up
rules in the name of Christ which may not have
been His rules. Each sect was striving for Christian
perfection. That was the thought behind the Con
necticut blue law which would not have a man kiss
his wife on the Sabbath Day. It was behind the re
mark of the English clergyman who said to me that
America could not be a t hristian nation.
“Have you met many Mohammedans, sun-wor
shippers or devil-worshippers in our country? I
asked him. “Have you noticed large crowds pros
trating themselves before idols? Have laige dele
gations of atheists met you at the railroad stations?
“But you have no state church,” he said. That
was final to him.
Possibly Christ "will be just as grateful toi a
soul saved in a nation that has no state church as m
a nation that has one. An American may worship
in any faith he chooses or in not faith; he may be
lieve in hell or personal paradise as in the disposi
tion of a single creed or in neither hell nor para
dise. His faith is the citadel of his soul within him
self. That we must respect.
“Isn’t it better that he lie where he fell for Ins
country?’’ said a General soon alter the aimistice
to a father who had come to France to bring home
the body of his son. “Ilis name may be on the
family stone in the cemetery and in bronze in the
City Hall—”
“What you don't understand,” said the father,
“ is that I believe in personal resurrection and that
when the trumpet blows 1 don't want my family
scattered.”
The only thing for the government to do in res
pect for that father’s faith, was to bring that son’s
body home. Any political or social bias against
any man’s belief, the use of any form of force for
religious ends, is not in Christ’s manner. He came
to earth to convince our hearts, minds and souls and
save us through faith. Otherwise he would have
organized an army to spread his faith. The reli
gion of the sword is Mohammedanism.
Some high reasoners hold that Christ himself
was under an illusion. lie was not divine, but only
brought us a great teaching. Some men do not go
to church. Some men scoff at all religion. They
stand for the Age of Reason. France tried that for
a while in her Revolution but went back to Chris
tianity. Russia has been trying it.
True Christianity has not been the cause of
wars. Human nature makes wars. Christ’s spirit
has put a check upon war. When wars came it
brought succor to the wounded and solace to the dy
ing. Amidst the wreckage of the field after bat
tle the voice of Christian tenderness has spoken
among the groans of the wounded.
Always there is in all of us that spirit of Christ,
'those who scoff and disbelieve can not escape it.
They have the Christ inheritance from their moth
er?: of countless generations, the inheritance bred
into them through these 1924 years which have made
Christian civilization. They can no more destroy
its effects than any can change their bodies. The
good in them sprang from Christ. It is ther\ spy
ing the murderer’s hand, or the blow of a parent
who would strike his child. It counters t.i.: savag
ery in it gives us our moral code and all our finer
attr nules. Call it. conscience if you will, but the
nobler the conscience the more it comes from Christ
and faith through Him. And the strength of Christ
in us is tested by 'lit strain it will bear.
I have seen t* at test applied in sieges and bat-,
tics where the profession of Christian qua..tier must
be prouni in deeds. It was then that [ learned
that some men ]. reftss Christianity as they take out
insurance, paying the conventional premium They
seek on'side snpj < 11 in want of inner su1 pen
THE COURT CONSIDERS THE
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The development of the last twelve months in
the Sunday School world of the most far-reaching
significance has been the impassioned plea which has
come from scores of judges in different states for a
more vigorous activity in religious education.
There is, of course, nothing absolutely new in
this, but the number and intensity of these pleas in
dicate a new valuation of the Sunday school. To
these judges the Sunday school is not a pleasant and
harmless diversion for those who like that sort of
thing. It is a major institution of American life of
primary importance in national welfare.
The latest plea for the Sunday school conies
from Supreme Court Justice Lewis L. Fawcett, of
Brooklyn, who has had eighteen years’ experience in
the County and Supreme courts. For the past seven
years he has been trying cases in the Supreme court,
New York state.
“In the eighteen years of my experience on the
bench,” Judge Fawcett says, “more than 4,000 boys
less than twenty-one years old have been arraigned
before he charged with various degrees of crime. Of
this 4,000, only three were members of a Sunday
school at the time of the commission of their crimes.
“Even these three exceptional cases were tech
nical in character and devoid of heinousness, so that
they are scarcely worth mentioning.
“In 1092 suspended criminal sentences, only
sixty-two of the young men were brought back for
violation of the conditions of their paroles. In each
suspended sentence case I insisted upon the return
of the youth, if he was a Protestant, to a Sunday
school; if a Roman Catholic, to attendance at mass,
and if a Jew, to attendance at a synagogue of a tem
ple. In each instance I had the earnest coopera
tion of the minister, th# priest of the rabbi, and in
each case I saw to it that the young man had a job
to go to as soon as he Vas freed on parole. In vir
tually all of the suspended sentence cases the re
form was quick and, I believe, permanent.
“If we could keep the youth of America in Sun
day school during the period of character formation,
or at regular attendance upon religious worship, we
could close the criminal courts and the jails. There
would be no ‘raw material’ to work on. And what
is good for the youth would be equally salutary with
adults. The sustained, wholesome, moral atmosphere
imparted through habitual attendance upon Sunday
school and church will expel criminal impulses.
“Any man not contributing to the support of
some church or organized religious work is living on
charity—riding on some other man’s transportation.
If he really desires abatement of crime he should
ally himself with those agencies which prevent or
abate crime.”
The plea of Judge Fawcett s, coming as it does
out of the daily experience of eighteen years, well
emphasizes one of the major tasks of the Church and
a major task of our civilization as weft.
A sectional party in this reunited country seems
to be one that carries the South and a national par
ty one that carries the North.
A good many office-seekeds probably envy that
Connecticut Lieutenant-Governor who was elected
Governor and Senator in the same year.—Empire.
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ALSO A PATHE NEWS
German Scientists Decribe
Poison Gas as Vital Weapon
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 26.—The war of the
future will be chiefly a gas war, in
the opinion ot Dr. R. Hanslian and
F. Bergendorff, who have just pub
lished a scientific treatise on “The
Chemical War.”
Military strategists must, in the
opinion of these two chemists, reckon
with gas as “a vital weapon put into
the hands of the nation most highly
developed in science and technology.
Consequently it will confer wrorld im
portance, or even world power, only
on the nation which shows supreme
capacity in this field.”
According to these authors, the war
of the future will be a combination
of air and gas fighting supported by
gas-carrying tank squadrons which
will range over wide areas. The
civil population will suffer quite as
much as will military forces.
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