of today, embodying as it does a conflict
between Americanism and alien ways of
thinking and living, which threaten our
peace, and security, and everything basi-
cally American.
Let us resolve, here and now, to enlist
our time, our energy, our spirit, and our
prayers in the preservation of our Ameri-
can heritage. Let America defend itself
first from within! No American could have
a greater ambition than the consummation
of this worthy task. It would spell doom
to the spies and termites within our midst.
As Philippine Independence
Approaches
(Continued from page 5)
gentlemen, we must tell the truth; and it 1s
necessary to disclose the fact before 1t
would be too late—there now exist the
purpose and the premeditated intention
to place the civil affairs of the Philippines
under the control of the ecclesiastical au-
thorities. We now have on the table a
thrilling case, and again the very hands
which have meddled with all the other
transcendental questions of the Archipelago
once more try to have a part in them.”
President Quezon carefully reviewed the
annals of ancient and modern empires. In
his meticulous survey he had discovered
with no small astonishment that estab-
lished or state religion had brought happi-
ness to no people and stability to no state.
He had examined every instance ol sacer-
dotal domination and had found it 1n-
variably an example of frightful malignity.
He had studied every record of ecelesias-
tical thralldom in all its horrors and its
hideousness, and in every case had found
it a paralyzing, petrifying perversity.
Indeed, the most awful abomination,
the most deadly disaster, the most satanic
sacrilege that could ever befall a nation of
human beings, was, is, and will be, always
and forever, hitherto and now and hence-
forth, the abysmal debasement of the peo-
ple by sacerdotal governance.
In all times and in every clime when
political power was wielded by the church,
the condition of the people declined, de-
generation and decay ensued, culture be-
came corrupt, the lamp of learning dark-
ened and dimmed, all human values were
extinguished; ignorance, poverty, supers
stition, intolerance, misery, and degenera-
tion prevailed, and humanity itself was
palsied, paralyzed, and prostrated.
Where religious establishment was com-
plete. wreck and ruin were absolute. The
nations in which religious interference in
politics was most general, were the back-
ward nations, and those nations least
subjected to such authority were the pro-
gressive nations. It is a uniform and 1n-
variable rule that the coefficient of human
progress is freedom from established re-
ligion. The inevitable products of religious
domination are stagnation and foulness.
In this very enlightened age and m a
land where all are united in the most
strenuous efforts to be free, we hope and
expect that our representatives in Congress
will cheerfully concur in keeping the church
and the state forever separate, refusing to
permit ecclesiastical control of legislative
affaire. Religious establishments by the
state are highly injurious to the temporal
interests of any community. The gospel
does not need any special dispensation
from the civil government.
It is evident that when our blessed Sav-
our declared that His kingdom was not of
this world He renounced all dependence
upon state power; and as His weapons
were only spiritual and were especially de-
signed to have influence on the judgment
and heart of man, we are persuaded that
if mankind were left in the quiet possession
of their unalienable rights and privileges,
Christianity, as in the days of the apostles,
would continue to prevail and flourish in
the greatest purity by its own native ex-
cellence and under the all-disposing provi-
dences of God.
Beer Then and Now
(Continued from page 15)
effects of alcohol is to give the drinker a
certain sense of warmth and well-being.
He feels ‘pretty good,” and at peace with
the world. In this state he will, over-
estimating his ability, take chances which
may end in a fatal accident.”
Athletes are not advised by their train-
ers to drink beer in order to excel In
athletics. The beer drinker is not in de-
mand as a bookkeeper, a clerk, a chauffeur,
a railroad engineer, or in business of any
kind. Let him apply for any position and
say, “I need my daily supply of beer in
order to keep fit,” and even a brewer
would not employ him to drive his auto-
mobile, to keep his books, or to look after
important business matters.
Dr. Charles Mayo, in an address to boys
oiven at Rochester, Minnesota, said: “If
there is any man that has ever accom-
plished anything great through the use of
alcohol, T would like to have that fact
pointed out. Through alcohol stimulation
4 man loses his co-ordination. That is
why liquor is not an advantage to the
brain.
“A man who hag to drag around a habit
that is a danger and a menace to the
society in which he lives ought to go off in
the woods and live alone. We don’t toler-
ate the obvious use of cocaine or morphine
or opium, and we should not tolerate n-
toxicating liquors, because, I tell you,
these are the things that break down the
command of the individual over lis own
life and hig own destinies.”
Is Man Imperishahle?
(Continued from page 13)
in the Bible, signifies a definite, distinct
individual. It is used thus in speaking of
the angels (Hebrews 1:14), and 1t 1s some-
times used to signify human personalities,
as in Numbers 16:22; 27:16. But it 1s
also used in a more generic, or abstract.
sense, in which case it is sometimes used
interchangeably with “breath.” “All the
while my breath is in me, and the spirit of
God is in my nostrils.” Job 27:3. “As the
body without the spirit margin, breath] 1s
dead, so faith without works 1s dead also.”
James 2:26. In this sense the animals, as
well as man, have it. “All in whose nos-
trils was the breath of life margin, the
breath of the spirit of life], of all that was
in the dry land, died.” Genesis 7:22. It
is in this sense that the word is used in
Leclesiastes 12:7, where we read, “Then
«hall the dust return to the earth as it was:
and the spirit shall return unto God who
eave it.” The spirit, in this text, 1s not a
living, conscious being that can live apart
from the body; it is simply the “breath of
life” that was given to man at the begin-
ning: and when the breath leaves the body,
life ceases.
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