PAGE SIX THE UN ION PRESS-COUKIKK. Thursday, June 8, 1939. at HAVE A REALLY ACCURATE, SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION MADE . . . . . PUT YOUR CAR THROUGH OUR iNDOOR PROVING GROUND Guessing is bad businesss We save you money and save our time b testing your car on our "Indoor Proving Grong '—the remarkable Bendix-Feragen Chassis Dyna- mometer. You can SEE exactly what work is needed—and after we've done the work, you can SEE for sure that it's well done. Here! s one shop where there's no driving you car through crowded traffic to Su S at carburetor adjustment, ignition system efficiency, valve timing and seating, combustion, back pressure, power, pick- up, fuel consumption, compression, cool- ing efficiency and chassis noises. We check all this, and more, with speed and eg s part of ourservice. And we our work on the same machine— the Bendix-Feragen Chassis Dynamometer. Drive i in and see this remarkable equipment we've installed to serve you better. BUY A DYMMOMETER TESTED USED CAR A VERY FINE SELECTION OF LATE MODEL CARS AT VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICES WESTRICK MOTOR (CO. PHONE 2101 CARROLLTOWN, PA. C{3NeIb & FERAGEN IRAN EN IST VT 1: INSPECTION ELL: CORRECTION EQUIPMENT BUY BENDIX PRODUCTS PATTON METHODIST God; a revelation of the mind of God EPISCOPAL CHURCH to man; a progressive unfoldment of the mystic, truths of being That it is James A. Turner, pastor. Church school at 9 a. m. Preaching at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Epworth Le- ague, 6:30 p. m. Mid-week Bible Class on Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. How much do you read the Bible? Do you know it was a “best seller” be- fore we used the term? That millions of copies are sold each year? Do you know that it is the most graphic and ! unintelligent for anyone to remain ig- dramatic book on earth, more absorb- | ingly interesting than a modern mys- tery novel? That it has been translat- norant of it? The Bible, which has been the lead- ing “best seller” in the United States for generations, is still also the best seller in Germany in spite of the com- petition of Hitler's Mein Kampf, which is practically compulsory reading. Ac- cording to the Prussian Bible Society the Bible has outsold Mien Kampf by | about 200,000 copies yearly in the six years since the Nazis assumed power. Evidently the Bible is worth study- | THE SOWER A Weekly Department of Religious and Secular Thought Contributed by REV. JAMES A. TURNER, Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa. | | | | | THE INDIVIDUAL WILL AND THE COLLECTIVE WILL. 1 Obviously, if religion is to influence ife, it cannot be embodied in per- I: sonal attitudes alone. The principles and spirits of it must be embodied 1n i the social order, for whatever is in the social order, converts, in large meas- ure, those under that order. If religion turns over the social, the | economic, and the political to other ways of life, and hopes to influence the individual through personal con- tacts, it will be fighting a losing bat- tle. The situation 1s loaded against its success. True, it will influence individ- uals here and there, and we must be grateful for that influence, but it makes religion the occasional and the marginal instead of the central form- ative fact in life. Shall we rescyge individual slaves and leave untouched the slave traffic? Shall we pick up individual drunkards and leave untouched the liquor traf- fic? Shall we gather up the wounded in war and attend to them and leave the war system operative? Shall we pick up the derelicts of a ruthlessly competitive order and give them doles and handouts, or shall we put justice and the love of God into the order so that this shall be unnecessary ? Obviously, we must do both, for evil can be in the individual will and it can be in the collective will. There is such a thing as an evil soul and there is such a thing an an evil system. If we do not undertake to cure evil in the social order, then religion becomes an ambulance corps in human lie picking up the wounded instead of a banner leading the army. In the film, ANTHONY ADVERSE, religion is seen tending to sick slaves and rescuing the aged and the infirm from cruelty, but doing nothing to stop the slave traffic itself. It was only softening the system; it was not chang ing it. When we make the Kingdom of God into a merely personal thing, we turn into a personal insurance policy what God intended to be a charter of social and personal redemption. If the objection is raised that if you get sufficient individuals converted, you will thereby of necessity change the social order, our reply is that this does not necessarily follow. For the social order is not made up of individ- uals now living—it is made up of in- herited attitudes ,insfitutions, customs, laws, and these exist, in large meas- ure, independently of the individual wills now living. Change those indivi- dual wills and you do not of necessity change the social order, unless you organize those changed individual wills into social action on a large scale, fron- tal attack upon those corporate evils. In the city of Wellington in South Africa, in front of the church where Andrew Murray gave forty years of beautiful ministry, there is a statue of him seated in an armchair with an op- en Bible in front of him, his saintly face looking toward the cross roads. The colored people reverence him very greatly, and on their way to the li- qgour shops they will not pass by this statue lest Andrew Murray see them, but go round by some side lane. The moral influence of Murray was, and is, very, very great. But it is a losing bat- tle he is fighting against drink. For ing. Come to the Mid-week Bible class | by statute it had been made legal to and see for yourself—that it is one of ed into practically all languages and the most interesting, stimulating, in- dialects? That it is a continuous story spiring, uplifting and entertaining of the relation of the human race to books in the world. 2000RAGGANNNCANNNNNNNBONNO DOOOC OOOO o 2 A NEW Banking SERVICE! Bank Money Orders OF FUNDS. A MODERN NEW SERVICE FOR THE TRANSFER RATES SERVICE IS QUICK. | Less Inconvenience and Red Tape in Handling. | ¢ Ideal Method for Handling Your Payments If You | ¥ Don’t Carry A Checking Account, | COME IN — WE’LL GLADLY EXPLAIN THE LOW RATES AND SERVICE. DOOOVOVVVVOVNVOVVOVVVVVOOOOC | ARE LOW. pay off these colored laborers in li- quor as a part of their wages. The moral suasion of Murray was great and very beautiful but utterly inade- quate against an evil that had become embodied in the social order. Change the individual wills of both the laborers and the employers and it will not be enough unless you organ- ine those individual wills into col- lective action to extirpate that social evil, rooted in aconomic greed. Most of the empolying farmers are deeply religious men, but oblivious of this social evil, for religion in South Africa has been and is interpreted in very personal terms. You could change every single per- son in the world today by an individ- ual conversion, and unless you put the content of social change into that individual conversion your social order will remain exactly what it is. As Dr. Halford E. Luccock says: “By sinking individual wells in your back yard you don’t thereby have a city wa- ter system.” I repeat—if the Kingdom fo God is totalarian, then it must take in the whole of life, and life includes both the social and the personal.—Dr. E. Stanley Jones. 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