The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-07-13
The Universal
Greed
By DR.. Frank Crane

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all good men belong, composed of
those of all faiths who honestly live
up TO the best they know, whether
Christian or Pagan, Jew or Gentle,
Catholic or Protestant, there is a GER
tain fundamental creed This. the
greatest common divisor of all creeds,
may be thus stated
1. The good man sees, acknowl-
edges, and believes in. first of all, the
difference between right and wrong.
When the word ought disappears from
ones vocabulary he may be sure of
moral decay. The one man abomina-
Bile to any decent society is the man
who thinks nothing matters. We can
! tolerate one even, who doubts there is
a God; but if one believes there is no
line between right and wrong, then,
as Or. Johnson said, let us count our
spoons when he leaves"
,. The good man believes that hap
piness will come to him, permanently,
and rs law, only as he practices do
ing right. JOY, peace. and bliss are
! not to be cozened nor juggled from
God or nature, but are the sure por-
ton of them that persistently do what
they think right Doing right, of
| course, does not always bring money
| or fame or other external desired
things, but it brings peace and poise
to the soul, as surely as three times
five makes fifteen. There are no more
| exception to this rule than to a law of
| physics or of geometry. The cosmic
! accuracy runs in spiritual as we'll as
in material things
3. The good mans duty lin which he
| find hapDiness) is first of all to de-
velop his personality. God made him
| for purpose his joy will consist in
finding and fulfilling that purpose. He
is not to be some one else, not to
copy; but, using all masters, to be-
| come more and more himself
4. 1t is his duty to be strong. He
can be Of use to others only as he has
force in himself He therefore shuns
all things that tend to weaken his arm,
his brain, or his heart
>. His duty is to be clean. This
item of the creed is oldest and new.
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part of every early religion, the COM
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cCTding TO the foregoing points in the
creed, he is to develop self and be
clean, brave, and strong, yet he is to
ind Eis motive for all this and the
end Ior which he does all this, outside
and not INSIDE OF himself
1t Is at this point that he rises, like
an aeroplane leaving the runway on
the ground and soaring aloft; here the
man leaves the company and simili'
tude OF all other creatures. In his
power to be actuated by unselfish mo-
uves he becomes as god compared
to the beasts
He lives for his wife, his children,
his friends, his country, his race; so,
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