The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-29
SQUARE DEAL RELIGION IS KIND
REAL, LIVE MEN ARE DEMANDING

with another man. the two slew a
goat between them. Men cannot live
Isolated says Carlyle, we are hound
together for mutual good or else for
mutual misery. as living nerves in
the same body. No highest man can
disunite himself from the lowest.'
Every man knows by instinct that
God and heavens great deep are
Him to whose heart his fellow ma
is night
This demand Of men for broth.
erhood is a demand thai men be Civ.
en- their true dignity in any religious
system. 1t won't admit that men are
~hopelessly corrupt. because 1t knows
q friend who Is faithful. Bobbis
hurns tells us of a gentleman that
derived his patent of nobility direct
from Almighty Cod and 1t Is Just
ms representation Of the greatness
OF men even in slavery to bad habits
that made even the most orthodox
Scotchman forget the theology that
sang, What worthless worms are we.
and sing "a mans a man for a. that
Men will not believe that men are
wholly opposite to all good and Who'll
~ inclined toward evil. They may
be persuaded to think thus of them
selves but not of the other fellow
who brings flowers when they are
sick and sits up far in the night
swearing that he feels as fresh as a
daisy in the morning.
Church Forgets.
If we wish to get the men into
our churches We must offer them the
best of what they get in their lodges
and then add the sweet Christ Gle.
ment. which is often not found in the
lodge. God divided man into men,
said Senaca' the pagan. that they
might help each other With such
sentences as those in mind. LEST.
range said, Seneca was a pagan
christian, n is very good reading
for christian pagans.' The church
has at times forgotten that christian
ity stands for brotherhood. and when
1t has men have stayed out Of Il
Lively Religion Wanted.
The men Of today demand a re-
iigion which leads q man to do things
for his fellow man. They also de-
mand a religion who is unalterably
opposed to the organized forces or
evil. Men of today want a. religion
with the militant ring. / was preach
ing last summer in a large eastern
church and spoke on The Church at
War With the World After the SER
mon. a leading physician who vas
closely associated with DR.. Wiley in
his tight for pure food. came up and
said, That is what We Want-sermonsl
with the militant spirit in them.'
1T is for the church to call men
to arms to fight for legislation against
child labor, for pure food laws. for
more equal distribution of the world'sl
goods. for q safety in travelling by
land and sea, for protection against
contagion: for better government in
our cities. for the enforcement of
laws against the liquor traffic. for
the freedom of the white slave. for
the rights of childhood and woman.
hood. for laws which will enable the
people to rule instead Of the political
boss and for a thousand other things
that would maxi this world a better
place in which to live. We are not
altogether here to tolerate says Car
lyle. We are here to resist. to con-
troll and vanquish withal. We do not
tolerate falsehoods. ~thieveries. in
iquities. when they fasten on us: we
say to them. thou art false, thou art
not t%olerable. We are here to extin-
guish f~alschoods. and put an end to
them in some wise way. l will not
quarrel SO much with the way; the
doing of the thing is our great con-
corn. In the old (iermanic and Scan
chief virtue: cowardice was his un.|
pardonable sin. The sure way to VAL
halla. the Scandinavian paradise. was
to fight the good fight and to die in
battle. Men demand the spirit of the
Scandinavian religion today. but not
its letter. The fight which he de-
mands should be carried on is The
fight against organized evil and in
dividual s~elfshness."