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THE JUSTICE f0F GOD » Divine justice is that attribute, or char acter, of Go& which is manifested in. the willing of righteous laws and the execu tion of those laws with absolute impartial ity. Those laws are summed up in two in junctions; Jove to God and to our-neighbor. On these -two commandments hang all the law and the p raphe tsv it -is transgression of these laws that has brought- the race to where it is morally today. The fairness of divine law cannot be reasonably questioned. As their Creator, God has a right to require His creatures to honor^everence* and obey Him. He maae man lnjiis own image, m tjsat -Me gave him th^fpower to know God and to love and-tfbey Him. All .mankind, having sprung'from one .pair, are brothers, with equal rights and common feelings end ‘in terests, and {here is nothing unjust :in the commandment of God that these things be recognised among men. In the application of these laws, 'God :is no respecter of persons, -and the distinc tions that prevail among men by reason of wealth, intellect, superior position, etc., have no place in-the eyes of the Almighty. Rewards for obedience and punishment for disobedience will be -meted out with absolute justice. The justice of Ged receives testimony from various sources. Conscience, God’s deputy-in the human soul* cites all men before it, and pronounces them innocent or guilty. The law of God is written in the hearts of heathen and Christian alike, and conscience declares that law to be holy and just, and demands obedience to it. -It accompanies sinners everywhere, and of ten eondems them of falsehood when they are trying to justify themselves for their misdeeds. Wrong as heathen are in attri buting to beings that are the products of their immagination! the calamities over taking them for their sins,, they are right in interpreting them as proof that there is a moral government that does not allow crimes to go unpunished. Their sacrifices evince the convictions that the Gods are incensed at sin and must be .propitiated. Their Elysium for the good and Tartarus for the wicked, declare that justice rules lere and hereafter. The scheme of redemption also bears ;estimony to the justice of Ged in lan guage that cannot be misunderstood, bucn s the unalterable determination of God to >unish sin, which is the transgression of lis law, that when his own Son would m erfere in behalf of sinners, He must pay he penalty pn the cross for their sins. The vages of sin is death, and before men :ould be saved, an [atonement for sin must >e found, and the Cross was the solution if the problem. Truth, justice, and mercy ill must meet the Cross. • ,. The general judgment -is also a tpsti nony to the justice of God. Men claim that Cod does not deal justly with men here, md that the righteous suffer more fhan ;he wicked in Numerous instances. Threes rue, but the scales Will stand even at ast. In the last verses of the -2&th chaptei Matthew Christ describes ‘■the Jung da^wh«„.he‘‘Shan renderdo every man according to his _nf „eat must all stah^before the 3n4gment^eat if Christ;” that each one may receive-th things done in the body, according to wha le hath done, whether it be-go© _ o • ‘For God shall bring every dne mtoyuag nent, with every secret thing, whetWit le good or Whether nt be evil. Before [he assembled human race, 'God will vin dicate His Justice. ■ ' ■ For a man to hope to escape the cons - luences of his sins other than through Cross, is for him to hope that God is just, and therefore unrighteous, and that Ke is notwhatJfie saysfle is: A ast God and a Savior.” A. it. M. Just suppose that Christians *houW-put the time and energy ‘in '<fe ?*™^**^ of the Gospel politicians do m their cam paigns! MINISTER WOULD SEE ROOTS of <evils cur So much in harmony with the purpose and spirit of the Site's Voice was a ser*< mon'recently preached by Rector Theo dore Partrick in the Church of the Goodi Shepherd, Raleigh, that the report of' the - sermon by the .MewsandOhserveris given place upon this page. The editor-of the Voice has' followed Mr. Partrick’s career with interest since he succeeded me ww minister as editor of the Sampson Demo crat and is much gratified <to see him dig ging at the roots of the evils hgamst itrhkfh the writer -has so-long waged* a ceaseless hght. Here follows the >report of the ser mon: Greed, dishonesty, lust and intemperance are the causes that lie at the root of present day evil con ditions, said Rev. Theodore Patrick^ IT., recti*, in. his r ermon .yesterday morning -at Hue ' Churchf6£ th« Goo l Sheperd. = • ' v The aim of Christian service, ■ he said, Isdo bring about a social order based1 on justice-and-goodwill and this can. be done only by applying;#he «x to the root of^ thg trouble. , "The Church is not a self improvement society, content to gain a little here and a little there, bin ' its purpose is to go. to-the-roots of-our social orihjr. And this, he said, “brings on the age-ohl wn trover sy: shall-the Church align itself -with, any "specific agency or form of government?-In the present in stance, capitalism. This on* thing we must remem ber whether we live u nder capitalism, soda ’ism ci any other form, we have the same men to deal with.’ As he saw it the Church was not concerned as tc any special system, as a system, but in the acts of 'the system. To him It was the duty of llie Church tc condemn evil in any form and to commer.i that which is good. ’ ' “We need something more to Wire Surface _ condi tions, Which stand oOt in unemployment and poverty • The wof-ld is suffering from'a very bad heads the We have unemployment which is creating hunger and crushing out the spirits of men. We ttaVe a p’an ic caused by innumerable fears We are burden'd by debt which is a prior claim on all We have. Our social agencies are in danger of being abandoned ar irt« sential.V Conditions, the rector declared, have reached such i stage* that the stomach has first cab and Hie ma terial is being maintained at the expense of the spiritual. But, after all, he said, the conditions which 36nfront us are but symptoms, and the Church, is concerned with the disease that has Caused Christianity, he declared, has been a way of Ugh [or men who have worked with their hands «ui with machines. In all ages this has been so because Christianity has hitched its wagon to a star instsao of machines. Mr. Patrick urged that >the church give its sup port to efforts looking to the elimination of war and for the uplift Of -W Disarmament, he said, is only proximate: there W !be 'elimination of envy a*.d jealousies Which are at the root of war. One of the most dangerous dements of toviync aaw. was in the condition Where so few min’ of vttalth and power hold the destinies, comforts and happi ness of the people m their hands. An inequality wa.ci should be corrected. Another needed thing,-as lie viewed it, was the regulation of machines, makinfi them the servants of men-and not their masters,. ' INTERRACIAL relations ' Sunday, Feb. 12, being Lincolns birth day 'the North Carolina CoTMKHSaion on Interracial Co-operation very fittingly re quested North Carolina ministers bo preach Upon ^Interracial .Relations. As (Rector Barber, of Christ Church, Raleigh, stated, interracial relations m North Car olina, in which there are so .few fe reign-, ers, must have direct reference to the re flations between the white and black .peo ple of the state. Not so many years ago, it would have been dangerous; for any white minister to speak as plainly as did some of bhe North Carolina ministers Sunday. 'Hie very exis tence of the1 Commission on Interracial Co operation, composed of leading citizens of both races, speaks Of a better day. Amalgamation Not Wanted Dr. Barber correctly Stated that the Ne groes do not desire amalgamation, bat the' amicable adjustment of friendly relations between the races. The term "social equal vtaking on a new definition in. the ; GQuht£y, e^peciaIty’ia thelSkmiSh. Iforwmiy, :to suggest social ea^itty WM ‘he to :fku&t -a ted flag. Today* %i^]>opale equality** is .used ip connection with 'the rac* question* the .meaning is more that of ,oivie equality. 3n Ihct,nmty people "have .ndt tearated the reiil maahing of ‘IjoCHEfr - as sb often. liseiS in scientific oitcles. *Wf ^nnot-gtetaway Trom ‘the stghificance ic^:; 'the Iterm iih the oKJ "“socials* where the ’hays and .girls di "the community met to lhave ihek frarics. rtS0Ciar.atitl signifies 'to moat Southern .people fheddeaot-intimacy. lJttt <it is not intimate .relations tfiHt ’thh Hegroes lesird ltoll 3pf Justice deman&s CSvie ®tp*etfrty ''-'t- ' T ^kat 'demanded, and ;rsg*t£fe%, -,«te •civic -equality* or social equality in adult sense. ;lt is, we-believe, tes'lltfle desire®^ the Slacks f hdt ^fcsir *a<fidl identity behwt >ltt A mixturewitlMthe ‘Whiter itdrreiwig narit %) the ‘Whiles. The race&musfc rejawba Histftiet r*m& ‘thdtmeft^the separation of •the ‘races hn^sich^oi^ OhttJ^heeSj ^ 4n>9© eiail gatherings. -But that.does ?not 'imply nor any chic ‘inequality. Br. '-Bar 'her meHtioned ^n&severeiymmem, racial 4»ji^tiee’eJf?ifcfc kind ’committed in 'mike ‘county. "'ffte demand for economy 'deter mined ‘tire cottrity! boar# tif health to mut down the wiMber ‘county %ey 4^ ffoor While ^taEses^ifcal nett a 4in gte colored ntttso. 3Jbss -iftfustice was pro -tedted by Br. Barber and others, bat with out ’effect, -though 4t was pointed oat that ithe ]&^roe&-n»ed’the help df sMraese mere fthaa #© ithe Whiles* aa4 that «the very#ro •teetioo of the ’Whiles depends -upon that •Of the Negroes* . , : ~ That a change of sentiment 4s fast being ■offieeted^ven in “thevery county in Which fttes * petered race was thus fliscrimrinated . -against, is apparent. >it was only a few weeks -ago that the writer first saw a 'school bus loaded with colored boys and ‘girts, and it 'Was m -Wake. -High school ‘Students1 Of the Cary-seCtion are hokig-con veyed to the colored -high school of Ra ‘leighdn a bus. Su-ch a sight oven fifteen years ago would have made the average white -man's blood boil. YOt reason seems ito prevail. -If education is the most oxcei teiit- and necessary thing it has • been deem ed ito be -for the whites, it is just as good for^the colored. Yet that logic has not geo erdlly prevailed. ft is striking to see the contrast in the character of the school ‘buildings for whites and blacks in most Of the counties. -All -the- -educailondi hor ^rah land spending Of public money for -education has been, in many sections, re 'gardless of the fortunes or opportunities Of the colored hoys -and girls. "Nearly evei^y- white child may -attend school in a modem school “building, some of them al 'tegether too costly, while the* majority of -Nbgr© children are stHl'forced *o gather in buildings that are discreditable to pres ■eptaiay eivilhsdtmn. Also, provision has been -made for very few eighteenths terms of school for the blacks. fhe'Mtter f&iloremay fbe re&lly'ahfess fing; yet ithe»discrimination exists, and ex ists because of the action of those authori ties Whodeem length <ef -term, high sal aries Of ^teachers, -and the high quality of-the school building and equipments es sential to the future welfare of “the • dren and of the state. -Holetihglhe * Option that the writer does, that half-time work and half time-school attendance is better for even the white children, *he cannot grieve that the Negroes are thus discrim inated against. Yet the discrimination'ex ists. - -^.V-i.lv V ■ . Personal Ducnminations JToo, the tittle is ttdt altogether past when White men Will treat the colored man more unfairly m wa goa :and Other business relations than he will the white man. Some'yet deem it necessary in > dem onstrating their own superiority oyer fthe 'ftggro to treat the. letter harShty. One has it. And the ^eyerest ^Af fiatsho^ -fet; ‘ ■i-v ■. ■• ' . ; V 4.' •V i. 7 w r ' ’ :* '' C; - ’
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