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torial opinions. I do not tonight intend to take extended issue with them on that front.
The text which I would urge on all newspaper men at all times is — "Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" The most serious criticism which I would urge against publishers is that they become so much concerned with short-time, local problems and superficial prejudices that they fail to realize the deep underlying forces which are remorselessly pushing the world ahead.
They do not realize that the American revolution, Judo-Christianity and modern science have combined to let the genie of world revolution out of the bottle. The old-fashioned reactionaries think they can lure the genie back into the bottle again and put in the cork of normalcy. The liberal Democrats know that this cannot be done and therefore they strain themselves to the utmost in order that the worldwide revolutionary forces may prove to be beneficent in terms of a well-fed, well-housed, highly productive humanity. Liberal Democrats know that these forces are worldwide and that after this war they will have as much influence in Africa, China, Latin America and the Near East as they have in the United States and Europe.
Few people realize what social dynamite there is in the Bible. Most churchgoers are conservative but now and then there comes a person who is able to translate the social message of Jesus and the prophets into modern English. Now and then a missionary or a minister becomes imbued with a
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holy determination to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth as a manifestation of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Jesus said, "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God;" "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth." "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."" "Woe unto you that are rich!" "For a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth." "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." "Sell all that thou hast, and come follow me."
The disciple James goes even further than Jesus, saying, "Go too now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you."
Small wonder that one earnest Christian fortyfive years ago, pondering statements of this sort, said, "If we would follow Jesus in the social redemption it will be by storming the citadel of monopoly." But the most explosive doctrine of all in the Bible is that all men are brothers because God is their Father. This is the religious sanction behind ethnic or genetic democracy. The American sanction for ethnic or genetic democracy is the statement in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. In the eyes of Divine Providence I cannot help feeling that the purpose of the American revolution was to bring here on earth as nearly as might be a manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Declaration of Independence and the Bible speak the same language.
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