As They Treat
No Uther
By Clyde Rosser
yh tg HEN the claims of the fourth
0 WA commandment are presented,
2 Ak % there are many who admit that
eB the Decalogue is still in force, but
say that if any day of the week is kept, ‘that
will fully meet the requirements of the
fourth commandment. Although that pre-
cept says specifically, “The seventh day is
the Sabbath,” yet many will say, ‘Oh, that
means simply one day in seven.” Being
assured that the words ‘“the seventh day”
mean ‘any day,” we are told that we may
do anything we please on the day that God
has blessed and sanctified, so long as we
keep another day in its stead.
But why should such an interpretation
be given to the fourth commandment any
more than to one of the others? The
third commandment mentions a certain
name that we are to reverence. No one
would be called a keeper of the third com-
mandment if he habitually used profane
language but highly revered some other
name,—the name of his country or its
ruler, for example,—instead of the name of
Deity.
The fifth commandment also is very
specific, naming certain persons whom we
are to honor. One who bestows upon some
college classmate, business associate, or
other friend the honor, love, and affection
due his parents, and treats the latter with
utter neglect, could not be counted as true
and loyal to the principles of the fifth com-
mandment.
But if other parts of the Decalogue can-
not bear so loose an interpretation, what
ground is there for saying that the fourth
commandment does not mean exactly what
1t says? The words, “For in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sab-
bath day, and hallowed it,” tell of definite,
specific days. To illustrate the point: the
Declaration of Independence was adopted
on July 4, 1776. If that is true, it could not
be equally true that it was adopted June
22, July 1, or July 27, of the same year.
So with the day that God has blessed and
sanctified. It is “the seventh day,” and
not just any day of the seven, and no one
has any right to say that God did not mean
what He said.
America, Freedom's Bulwark Threatened
in blood purges. We in America believe
that prison or the electric chair 1s the place
for such menaces to civilization. If we
would protect America, we must determine
that no gang of espionage agents, no group
of saboteurs, and no coalition of paid anti-
American propagandists shall sway us from
our settled decisions.
Every American has a distinct duty in
the erection of a national wall which will
encircle Americanism. This wall of pa-
triotism must be so sturdy that no foreign
ism can penetrate it and weaken Ameri-
canism, which guarantees to all, life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
The honest workingman and the honest
employer, the true American, whether he
be of American birth or a citizen by nat-
uralization, owes it to his nation, to his
family, and to his God to stand by the land
which protects him. Now is the time to tell
anybody and everybody who assails the
principles upon which our country was
founded that if they do not hike what
America stands for they should go to the
lands which foster the foreign isms they
preach. This country has no room for the
subverter or for the dictator-lover, no mat-
ter under what innocent-appearing guise he
may masquerade his activities.
Freedom of the press, freedom of speech,
freedom of activities, and freedom of
thought, all of which were conceived by the
founders of this nation as vital parts of the
country’s heritage, were conceived for
honest persons seeking a land of liberty, and
not for crooks, dictators, spies, or traitors.
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To these malefactors the Constitution is
merely a scrap of paper, not a symbol of
liberty and freedom. We must not be be-
guiled by their smoke screens or their per-
versions. They use the Constitution as an
armor plate, just as John Dillinger used a
steel vest,—to protect themselves while
seeking to kill, plunder, and destroy
American democracy.
Any person in America who advocates
the worship of dictatorial forms of govern-
ment, who casts scurrilous reflection upon
our democratic ways of living and of
government, and who seeks to engulf the
thoughts of America with the schemes of
totalitarian blood-lust, is a traitor to this
country, no matter under what statutes or
constitutionalities he may seek to hide.
And for saying this, mark you, the hyphen-
ated press will “smear” me as one who ad-
vocates the violation of civil liberties. Tam
defending true Americans! Every real
American knows it! I do seek to deprive
these counterfeiters, crooks, and traitors, of
liberty to scuttle and ruin America. We
can preserve civil liberty for Americans
only by preserving America.
In this hour when America is building its
defense against mighty alien forces plans
are afoot to sabotage and impede our task.
But this is not surprising. The hyphenates
openly advoeated lack of preparation, and
in one of their manuals of destruction
boasted of how they will slow down work
in our ammunition plants for the making
of the implements of self-defense in order
that their revolution can thus be served.
The call of Americanism demands that
once and for all these interlopers on our
shores, these panderers and seducers of
democracy, be recognized for what they
are,—the vanguards of the “fifth column”
of destruction.
The Jolly Twelve
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3. Became a joiner; succeeded to his
father’s business, which he still controls.
4. Became a slater, and subsequently a
partner in the business, which he still
controls.
5. Became engineer and works manager;
retired well off.
6. Started as butcher's message boy, and
now owns the business.
7. Apprenticed to a builder; now fore-
man in one of the largest firms.
8. For forty years has held a high posi-
tion In a leather factory.
9. Apprentice wright [carpenter];
master builder in Glasgow.
10. Clerk; now manager of large business
in Glasgow.
11. Myself; member of the British Parlia-
ment.
Of the eleven of “The Jolly Twelve,”
none lived beyond thirty-six, and eight
killed themselves. I know of none that left
legitimate children, but one committed sui-
cide a week before his son was born. Of the
eleven of the other group all are living
except one, who died at sixty-three. Every
one prospered, and their families prosper
also.
now
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hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported
the words of the people unto Jehovah.”
Exodus 19: 3-8, A. R. V.
Paul declares that this old covenant was
faulty, and that the fault was with the
people. “But now hath He obtained a
ministry the more excellent, by so much as
He 1s also the mediator of a better cove-
nant, which hath been enacted upon better
promises. I‘or if that first covenant had
been faultless, then would no place have
been sought for a second. For finding fault
with them, He saith, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel and
with the house of Judah.” Hebrews SK:
6-8, A. R. V.
(fod’s part of this covenant was good and
perfectly reliable. He said, “If ve do, ye
shall live.” “If ve will obey . . . ye shall
be a kingdom of priests and an holy na-
tion.” And the people said, “All that
Jehovah hath spoken we will do.” Herein
lies the secret of the weakness of the
agreement.
Three days later Jehovah spoke His law
in the hearing of the people. Again they
repeated their promise, and the covenant
was ratified by being sprinkled with the
blood of an ox. ““ And Moses came and told
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