Our Debt to Rome, Greece, and Judea 205
man who is grateful to his God is a hypocrite or a fanatic.
They find it inconceivable how any one can have faith and
jokingly tease him about his getting religion, with a sly
reference to the gymnastic feats of the colored sister when
she is “under the spell”. Little do they know that the very
greatest men of all times were most emphatically men of
faith. Neither do those who scoff at religion realize what
their secularist theories lead to, but I will tell you. They
lead to anarchy. Trusts and strikes and unjust tariffs and
assassins’ daggers are all the offspring of secularism; the
doctrine of irresponsibility, of not being answerable to a
higher being for our actions is the curse of the age. The
secularists would reject the Bible. They claim it is no
longer to be taken seriously. Stop a moment. Consider
whom they have to reject alongside of the Bible : Herbart
and Bunyan and Milton, Haydn and Handel and Mendels-
sohn, and Spohr, Michelangelo and Rubens, and scores
more of intellectual giants whose aspiration was found in
the Book of Books. We cannot blink our eyes to the fact
that all around there exists an intense secularism, a scoffing
at piety and an indifference to morality. We can indeed
partly account for this in the fact that for centuries the
great motive powers of the universe, steam and electricity,
lay dormant. Then suddenly came human brains and har-
nessed these powers for the benefit of humanity. That God
exists in the machinery wheels, that it is the divine intellect
which has made these invaluable gifts to the world, is never
for a moment dreamt of by the thoughtless crowds. They
only see the apparently limitless powers of the human mind
and so come to denying the existence of a superior being. “I
cannot believe that an all-wise and all-merciful God would
allow the good to suffer and the wicked to enjoy”, says the
secularist. In reply Hebraism sends forth her message of
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