hood, his individual liberty and personal responsibility, equally degrades humanity and dishonors God. It is hostile to the constitution of man embedded in his nature when created, and necessarily degrades and enslaves him. When a man yields his individual liberty to King or Priest he is abdicating his manhood, fitting himself for destruction, and incurring the condemnation and curse of the Almighty.

Faith works by love and the faith that does not work by love is not Christian Faith. The works following Christian Faith are "love, joy, peace, long suffering, temperance, patience and gentleness, etc.' Hate, torture, murder are Satanic. Christ never gave any sword to Peter; and the only one we know Peter had he was commanded not to use. The professions or presumptions of a Divine foundation that must maintain or propagate itself by exile, imprisonment, torture and death, is of the devil and not of God. The man or organization or class of men that teach that they can release others' responsibilities and assume them have a like evil origin.

CHAPTER VII

MODERN IDOLATRY

W E are living in the midst of a blatant and aggressive idolatry today; we wink at it for the sake of gain or power; we enrich it. We Protestants pour our wealth into it. We have made the Roman Church the wealthiest organization on earth, as we believe. "The Queen of Heaven" is worshiped today in our midst as she was in the days of Jeremiah. And the Judgments of God pronounced against ancient Israel for idolatry will cleave to us; and the curse of the Almighty visit us, for our idolatry. The priest takes the cake and pronounces over it, "Hoc est corpus meum" and tells his people it is no longer a cake but the actual body and blood of our Lord and they all worship the pancake god. They are the only pagans, Ancient or Modern, who create their god and then eat him.

As a very prominent Romanist writer phrases it: "The priest in a sense creates his Creator and it takes as much power to do this as to remove a mountain". This blasphemous fiction against reason, against philosophy, against the evidence of our senses, is accepted by a people forbidden to think and threatened with mortal sin, and the terrors of eternal condemnation if they dare the priestly fiat; so it is adored and then devoured.

In the Acts of the Apostles 1:3 it is said: "to whom He showed Himself alive, after his passion by

many infallible proofs being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God". These infallible proofs are of course the evidence of the senses. By the same infallible proofs the wafer is still a wafer and nothing more. Now the logical result of this teaching in time will be to adore the priest who has power to create his Creator. And by millions of people he is held in abject fear and veneration very nearly approaching the adoration paid the Almighty.

How any intelligent people can accept such arrogance, such absurdities, such blasphemies, is too much of a mystery for the Protestant intellect to understand. "The Lord thy God is a jealous God; and His glory He will not give to another, neither His praise to graven images". So the Bible tells us God is jealous of His supremacy. His indignation will reach those who would rob Him of it. We as a nation are now too great and powerful and rich to fear external aggression. But our greatness, our power, and wealth may be quickly shattered by internal division and violence. Let us wash our hands of idolatry if we would escape the righteous judgments of a jealous God!

CHAPTER VIII

THE RIGHT TO DEMAND FINAL AND ETERNAL

JUDGMENT

RIGHT and Wrong are distinctions, Eternal, Immutable, Inherent, in the nature of things. Man was created with the faculty of recognizing these distinctions. Notwithstanding the blunting of this faculty by ignorance and vice it is still recognized in its simplest form or element as universal. This underlying principle is there though sometimes sadly warped; ignorant and superstitious. The consciousness of the difference between Right and Wrong and the responsibility to practice the one and avoid the other is a fundamental and inalienable element or faculty of humanity. Thus he was created! The "I ought" and "I ought not" is not something acquired, is not an accomplishment of civilized life. It is one of the fundamental characteristics of humanity, written into his constitution, imbedded in his nature, in his creation. After Adam had transgressed in the garden he hid himself from the Divine presence, which previously he had welcomed with joy and gratitude. He played the coward and the sneak. As Shakespeare tells us: "Conscience makes cowards of us all".

As to the foundations and distinctions of Right and Wrong allow some explanations and illustration. There are some careless thinkers and superficial observers who have different theories on this

subject. Some think God's command is the authority for Right or Wrong-Not so; but He commands it because it is eternally and inherently Right or Wrong. He says "thou shalt not steal" because stealing is sin, is wrong, in the eternal nature of things which He has created. Suppose God never uttered the command, still it would be wrong, nevertheless. God says "thou shalt not kill" or in the present understanding "thou shalt do no murder". Suppose he had never said so, this would not alter the fact of its criminalty. Suppose again, if it may be lawful, that Jesus should have taught that it is no sin or a light one, whose remission is easily purchased, then our Lord would have destroyed the race in thus condoning sin. With all due respect for the Almighty if He had done so, intelligent, moral, humanity would curse Him to His face and refuse adoration. Sinful humanity, knowing the power and degradation of sin could create a superior and better god. But thank God He has not done so but instead refers back the act to the desire or intention to commit it. "He that hateth his brother is a Murderer." "He that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.' "Let your yea be yea and your nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil". Simple, Absolute Truth; and "All liars shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone forever".

Under the spirit and law of the New Testament, lying, stealing, adultery, idolatry and murder, are sins which the blood of the Atonement shed on Cal