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honor; some mess of pottage attrac- lively disguised, for which we sell our birthright. Do not be blind to this truth; that if you have no higher nio- live than your own. personal interest, 1t means that your soul is for sale if the
 price be made sufficiently high. You may disguise this fact from yourselves, but you will not disguise it from oth-
 CTS. The world is full of men and wo- men who, having thus given themselves over to the operation Of seHishness, are anxious to believe that there is no mo- tive higher than that by which they themselves are bound; that honor is a
 dream, religion sham, Christianity a set of empty forms; that If you can get at the real heart of man or woman there is nothing at the bottom except elf-interest-usually concealed and sometimes refined, but in one form or another the controlling motive.
 It is for you tp prove the falsity of this view--to show in your own lives that the honor of a gentleman is not for sale the faith of Christian some 1 thing more than an empty form of | speech; that lyou care for your parents and your friends and your country, not because you expect to get something out of them in the way of reward, but because you are ready to gice to them whatever they need at your hands. If lyou can accept this for yourselves and believe it of others, and say so plainly, | you will do good to your country and your fellow men beyond all power to calculate. You will enroll yourselves l in that great church which includes all
 men of honor, whatever their creed, who have refused once and forever to ,be the slaves either of passion or of l self interest.
 l Do not be disturbed if your scientific l investigation has rendered it impossible
 for you to subscribe to some of the old lcreeds. Jesus of Nazareth himself re-
 jected many of the formulas which the 1 churches of his day deemed essential to salvation. We may distrust many tra~ l ditional articles of faith as unprovabIe, we may if necessary reject some of them as survivals of ancient prejudice, | and yet take our stand with Edmund
 Burke when he makes his bold avowal We are unwilling to cast away the coat Of ancient prejudice and trust our-
 selves to the naked reason, because we
 suspect that in each man the stock of
 reason is small, and prefer to avail
 ourselves of the bank and capital of
 ages" Even if we can go no farther than this, we have creed enough to jus tify ourselves for not selling our souls. But I believe that most of us can go a step farther, and can accept enough of the principles of Christianity to take our place in the effective Christian work of the future. Christianity, as taught by it's founder, did not deny the 1 important place of human instincts and l passions, nor did it seek to prohibit the exercise of human reason. It sought
 only to turn these impulses and pas sions to the help of others, and to
 have this reason exercised for unsel- | fishness. The one belief which it in- clucated yas the belief in the nesrness of Gods power to human affairs. The one ideal on which it insisted was the | ideal of devoted self-sacrifice where the call of duty con1icted with the dic- tates of apparent advantage. Whoever l so loves his neighbor that he would save him unnecessary pain even at his own cost. and so love his duty that he will not barter his conscience for any external advantages to himself, is not
 far from the kingdom of God-nay, he