The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-16
MAYOR WH|TLOCK
URGES G0[DENRU[E
Application OF Principle Will Get
Most Out of Life, He Tells
Church Club.

With a layman In the pulpit and
clergymen occupying the 'pews, TO
borrow one OF Bishop Williams apt
illusions, the usual order was revers-
Cd In the Y. M. Z. A. auditorium,
Thursday evening. when 75 mempers
VI the church club OF the diocese OF
Michigan (EpiscopaD. gathered fol the
clubs monthly dinner. The man In
the pulpit was. Mayor Grand Whit
lock. OF Toledo. Among the chLich.
men I'm his audience were Bishop VIII
Jams. the Rev. John McCarrou, the
Rev. w. Warne Wilson and others
prominent in the religious life OF De
!lroit. THE Golden Rule" was the
Subject of the sermon-it was moth
Ing less-and rarely. II ever. has the
ancient precept received a more FORCE
full exposition.
Mayor Whitlock's address was, in
the main. an appeal for broader ap-
plication OF the Golden Rule In every
day life. with particular reference To
society's attitude toward criminals
ills talk led up TO lively discussion
participated in by members OF The cub
generally.
The Golden Rule" said the mayor,
lis deduction from a law as old as
the world itself, the law OF moral ac-
ton and reaction, and IL is state
mcnt OF the way In which we can get
the get out of that law instead of the
worst OF II. II was stated by Con
fucius 500 years before Christ; II was
reiterated by Buddha in other terms,
hut II remained for Jesus to state II in
Its most beautiful form. and thus 1t
has GENE down To us through the ages.
sam Jones. OF Toledo. tried the
rule in lis machine shop and found
that IL worked When he was elected
mayor he carried 1t into the oflco
with him. Then another Sam Jonos
came along-Sam Jones, the eyanse-
list. now in heaven. Evangelist Jones
used TO say that the Golden Rule was
all right up To a certain point, but ar
ter that man felt like taking shot
Sun or a club. But whether we be-
iieve IL or not, men are coming to live
according To the Golden Rule every
minute OF their lives. II was meant
to be applied under all circumstances
and in all phases of life. and we get
the best out of life only insofar as
we apply II TO our acts.
Life Is sometimes spoken OF as be-
Ing divided into compartments. There
is one compartment called the relig.
.jous life. usually a very small one;
another called the social life; another
is the businesse life. fourth the po-
lltical life and so on. You often
heard IL said of man that he is
pure in hs private life and corrupt in
his public life, but that simply cannot
be. Might as well say that an egg is
good at one end and bad at the other
2 But some OF us have a rather mar
row conception of our religious duties.
We wear long coat and gray gloves
ON Sunday Then we 20 to church
carrying a Bible, from which purple
ribbons with crosses attached dangle
In profusion. That's religious life.
And on Monday morning We lay 1t all
aside and leave II out OF our lives for
Xix days The trouble Is we are liv-
ing by precept rather than by ideals.
!. Zones used to tell me that he found
ehe rule wouldn't work very well some
times, but he didn't blame the rule. He
simply didn't know how 10 work 1t,
that's all. | know that he carried IL
into his private life and 1t brought him
lnto a wonderful and beautiful relation
with all kinds of people, relation
which caused him to cease making dis
tinctions in men. Since then l, too.
have found 1t is difficult to speak or
this class and that class. They are
all Just folks to me. that's all. Some
of us are little better than others,
perhaps. but there's no reason why We
should get stuck up about It,"
Mayor Whitlock commended the
work of the juvenile courts in various
cities, declaring that they were work
ing on the right idea.
I'VE must learn to do away with
the law Of hate and learn to apply
the law of love-" he said. Il suppose