INCREASING LAWLESSNESS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 81, 2 May 1949, Page 4

INCREASING LAWLESSNESS

Sir, —The fundamental cause of the increased lawlessness lying behind the need for additional police protection and tightened firearm control is disclosed by an overseas journal.

This writer shows the one great lesson of nature is law: universal, impartial, undeviating, inexorable. From the tiniest speck of life to the vast heavenly bodies, everything is governed by law. As an obedient servant nature serves man in every possible capacity, but only as long as man observes its laws. Transgression is fatal. These so-called laws of nature are really laws of God, and with His physical and spiritual laws are under His own direction. All are equally inviolable. In speaking of the moral lav/ of God (the Ten Commandments) Christ said: “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one title of the law to fail.” (Luke 16:17). This tremendous assertion cannot be misunderstood: the law of God stands though the heavens fall; it is easier to abolish every law which holds nature together, than to make the least change in the law of God. The church. has been the state’s chief support in restraining lawlessness, but now there is a strange change of front. Most Christian creeds stress the moral nature and enduring obligations of the law of God, but now in many pulpits the Very law of God and those who still love and revere it are denounced and ridiculed.

Can such lawlessness be taught from the pulpits and the reaping not be increasing lawlessness? Thus this writer clearly demonstrates that responsibility does rest upon those who deride the law of God. Yours etc., ROMANS 3:31.