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IS THE WORLD BETTER
OR WORSE?
Dr. A. J. Moncrief, for a number
of years pastor of the First Baptist
church of Barnesville, but now pas
tor of the First Baptist church of
Decatur, Ga., preached the Conven
tion sermon before the Baptist Con
vention of Florida some time ago,
and so impressed were the people
who heard the sermon that its publi
cation was requested.
It will be no surprise to the peo
ple here to know that it was regarded
as a great message. The News-Ga
zette wishes it had room for the ser
mon in its entirety but not being
able to print it in full we do want
to publish a few extracts so that our
readers may get something of the
conclusions which Dr. Moncrief had
reached. His text was, “Say not
thou, what is the cause that the
former days were better than these?
for thou dost not enquire wisely
concerning this.” Ec. 7:10.
Dr. Moncrief takes the position
that the world is better today than
it ever has been and we quote the
following paragraphs from his won
derful sermon:
The former times were not better
than these. Aside from the economic
burdens imposed by the devastations
of war, and the problems of adjust
ment incident to the demoralization
of war. the world is no worse than
in “former days,” and life, with all
the ebb and flow of today, has no
less of hope and promise.
Two things may be said about the
familiar lament that “The former
days were better than these;” First,
it is false in its conception, being
born of the spirit of pessimism. It
“has not inquired wisely concern
ing - this.” Age tends, toward pessi
mism, the sophistication and expe
dience of mature and advanced life
incline to the censorious and cynical.
This, coupled with the fact that time
obliterates life’s wastes and failures
and preserves only the successes and
pleasures, accounts for the age-old
cry for “the good old days.” Israel
out of Egypt soon forgot the bonds
and oppressions, the task-masters and
tale of bricks, and remembered only
the flesh pots.
Conditions and social orders
change, and sometimes over-night,
but human nature reveals the same
v/eaknesses in every age, and its as
cent to higher levels is by slow stages
and patient and arduous endeavor of
both God and man. Sin is the same
in every age, and its manifestations
are the same evils with little varia
tion, as a few references to the past
may show. Let me read an excerpt
from a pastoral letter issued by the
General Assembly of the Presby
terian church to its churches: “We
perceive with pain and fearful ap
prehension a general dereliction of
religious principles and practices
among our citizens; a visible and pre
vailing impiety; contempt for law,
and for the institutions of religion;
profanity, pride, luxury, injustice,
intemperance, lewdness, debauchery
and loose indulgence abound.”
That sounds like the familiar la
| mentations of today—like it might
have been issued by last Assembly.
Not so. It is a relic of the “good
old days,” having been issued by the
Assembly of 1798. It was addressed
to those forefathers of ours whose
piety is held up to us as proof of a
halcyon past.
Here is another still more inter
esting: “The times are decadent.
There is lawlessness everywhere.
Children no longer obey their pa
rents. Everybody would write a
book. It is manifest that the end
of the age Is at hand.” The author
of that is unknown, out I dare say
I might ascribe it to almost any
preacher in this house and he would
be slow to disown it. Yet it, too,
belongs to the past—to the days that
were old when our Presbyterian
fathers were writing the letter al
ready quoted. It is said to be an in
scription from a tablet from the ruins
of ancient Assyria —old in the days
of Abraham.
The other thing that may be said
about this lament is that it is false
in its essence, being contrary to the
facts. I dare go on to say that the
past was not only no better but was
in fact worse than the present. The
world with all of its unrest is a bet
ter world than that of yesterday.
Life with all of its sordid excres
censes is facing forward and moving
upward. Material conditions of liv
ing are better; the social order is
higher, and religious ideals and at
tainments are higher.
We shall spend little time on the
first of these statements as it is not
debatable. None will deny that the
world has marvelously progressed
along scientific and mechanical lines,
vastly improving living conditions,
and adding to the comfort, conven
ience and enjoyment of life.
Electricity was discovered a little
more than a hundred years ago, and
today a thousand electrical devices
lessen the labors and contribute to
the entertainment and advancement
of man. Someone has well said that
civilization is concerned with the
quantity of life and religion with the
quality. Advancing civilization has
added tremendously to the quantity
of our living. We are in almost im
mediate communication with the
whole world, and every continent and
race contributes to the sum of life.
Two incidents will illustrate the dif
ference in living today and one gen
eration ago.
On Armistice Day an invalid man,
no longer aide to stand upon his feet
and contend for his splendid ideals,
broken in body and feeble of voice,
uttered the great principles for which
he had sacrificed his strength and un
counted thousands scattered over a
vast continent heard the living voice.
In the snow-crowned hills of Maine;
in the hurrying cities of the far
west; throughout the vineclad valleys
of the South, multitudes, by means
of the most weird and wonderful of
all discoveries and inventions of
science, “listened in” and felt the
thrill of mind and heart in living
contact.
On the second of August last the '
president died. Before his body was
encoffined the news of his death had
reached the ends of the earth. Six
days later the obsequies were held
in the capital, three thousand miles
from the scene of his death. Pres
ent at the obsequies were delegates
bearing the condolences of all na
tions, and many had traversed lands
and seas in the interim. The news
papers told us how one from far off
Nicaragua came by fast steamer to 1
New Orleans, reaching there on
Tuesday evening. The funeral was
set for eleven o’clock Wednesday.
Could he reach Washington in time?
Not by any means of travel known
to our fathers. A commercial air
plane brought him to Pensacola, here
he was transferred to a fast navy
plane and traveled to the capital in
a little more time than it would have
taken George Washington to go from
Mount Vernon there.
Religious conditions today show a
vast improvement over yesterday.
Not a few of you will challenge this,
and the statement is made in the face
of a general decrying of the religious
interests and and institutions of the
times. Every magazine and news
paper of every kind feels free to
take its fling at the church. News
paper reporters and magazine writers
boldly assume the role of prophets
and tell us of the dire disasters
ahead of the church. Efficiency ex
perts frankly charge that the
church’s methods are antiquated and
her doctrines medieval. Self-styled
scientists and scholars declare that
the inspiration of the Scriptures, or
the Scriptures themselves, no longer
interest modern students. Doctrinal
controversies and the prevalence of
heresies are cited as evidence of
widespread unbelief. Not a few
preachers themselves join the chorus
that bewail the drift away from the
church, away from the Sabbath,
away from the Bible, and away from
family worship.
What are the indications that these
things are true? Are such alarms,
such fears, such charges, such repre
sentations true to the facts? Let us
see.
In numbers the church —using the
term in a general ser.ce—has grown
more in the last ten years than it did
during the first ten centuries of the
Christian era. In wealth and cul
ture the progress has been even more
remarkable. We may take our own
land for example. In 1800 the pop
ulation of America w'as 5,308,48.1,
and there was one church member
for every 14.5 people. In 1900, a
hundred years later, the population
had grown to 75,994,575, but the
proportion of church members had
increased to 1 to every 4.5 people.
In 1920, just twenty years later, the
population was 105,710,620, while
the proportion of church members
was 1 to 2.3 people.
I am profoundly convinced that
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the church needs nothing today so
much as she needs a message of hope
and cheer. A bad situation is never
improved by wailing; it may be by
raising hopes, enkindling enthusiasm,
imparting inspiration. And one does
not have to draw on the imagination
for such a message today. There
was never a time when one could put
more encouraging facts and figures
into his message. To be sure the
times have their perils and problems
—we are not in the millenium by any
means. But there are no perils our
religion cannot meet and no problems
for which it is not a solvent. We
have not yet apprehended, but for
getting the past we should face the
task and the future. Difficulties dis
appear before faith and courage,
We have had quite enough of la
mentations. God’s messengers today
should sound a higher note. Who
savs the former times were better
than these has not inquired wisely
concerning this. America has a
mighty responsibility to the world,
and the church is her hope of meet
ing it. President Harding in his last
appeals to his countrymen put re
ligion before them as the supreme
need and sole hope for progress and
prosperity. David Lloyd George
freely declares that Christ is the one
hope of civilization, and if the church
fails all will be lost. Our day of
opportunity has come. The hour of
our destiny has struck. The doors
of the world are open to us and we
have a saving ministry to all men.
Those counselors who bid America
turn her back upon other nations
save where she may profit herself,
and withhold her intelligence, her
strength, her wealth from the prob
lems, the weakness and the want of
the world are not safe counselors.
“There is that scattereth yet in
creaseth; there is that withholdeth
but tendeth to poverty.” Our surest
way to decadence is to turn from the
present, world-wide task to a self
centered life from fear that we may
become involved in the perils and
pains of other peoples. Where Christ
points the way we need not fear to
go, and the knowledge of Him is the
world’s supreme need. His last com
mand was “Go ye into all the world;
disciple all nations.”
Along the coast at points where
dangerous shoals lie are life-saving
stations kept by the government. To
one of these came a call of distress
through darkness and storm. The
crew was ordered to the life boats.
They looked on the wild sea, roaring
its defiance in their ears and hurling
its mad waves at their,feet. “No
boat can live in that sea,” they said
to the captain. “If we should suc
ceed in passing those breakers we
would never come back.” He looked
at the faces of his men, at the wild
sea with its threat of death, at the
ship sinking to its grave with its
cargo of life, and calmly the cap
tain said: “Launch the boats; our
duty is to go, we don’t have to come
back.”
So “He that would save his life
shall lose it; he that would lose his
life for my sake and the gospel the
same shall save it.”
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