The mirror., 1915-10-14
Practical Demonstration.


directed their lives in strict accord
ance with the standards of the par
ticular creed to which they have
subscribed. They have more or
less flagrantly .deviated from the
precepts of their chosen faith, and
are, by the world at large, referred
to as hypocrits.
The Christian system of religion
is founded upon a triune godhead:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These
taken Individually or collectively,
represent Omnipotence Gall power). i.
Why then. do the adherents of the
Christian faith-some of them at
any rate-deflect from the high
standard of morality taught and ex-
emplifed by the founder of their
faith? Is it because Omnipotence
has become less potent? No. for col
lateral evidence demonstrates the
contrary. Is it because mankind
is less willing to respond to the
divine affiatus? We reply in the af-
firmative.
The fact that man has in any de-
gree failed to measure up to the
standard of excellence expected of
an adherent of the Christian faith
is no more chargeable to the Divine
Godhead than is the inertia of a
trolley car. with a disengaged troll
ley, chargeable to lack of power at
the power-house. The voltage pro-
duction may be never so great, but
it the car is not connected. by troll
ley or otherwise, with the conduct
or carrying the electric current from
the power-house 1.-THE car-will
be but an inert and practically USE
less unit of the street car system.
Likewise, if the individual because
of disobedience of the divine law.
sewers his connection with the di-
vine power-house (Omnipotence)
and is no longer responsive to the
divine affiatus, he then becomes
spiritually inert; but his inertia is
not chargeable to the Christian sys-
tenn of religion, neither can we con-
sistently hold the Godhead respon-
sible.
There are those who for the So
cial or business prestige gained
thereby will don a cloak of religion
aud assume an air of sanctimony,
that they may be held above sus-
picion Of fraudulent intent while in
reality their principles are the anti
thesis of the doctrines of Christiani-
ty. These are indeed hypocrits, and
as such deserve all the opprobrium
and contumely that is or ever has
been heaped upon them. But we
do not condemn all religion because
Of such as these; for to do so would
be narrow minded in the extreme.
Another class of individuals have
lived lives consistent with the re-
ligion which they profess, but in a
moment of real or imaginary stress
they have trusted altogether in
themselves rather than in a superior
and supreme power, and naturally
have failed to withstand whatsoever
evil influence was brot to bear upon
them. In such instances, as in those
hereinbefore enumerated, we should
not hold the Christian system of re-
ligion responsible, but rather it is
the individual and the individual
only who is at fault,
All this does but emphasize the
demand of the world at large that
each and every man shew forth in
and by his daily life, actions consis-
tent with the tenets or polity of
whatsoever body of people he has
aligned himself with.
In the political sense we demand
that the man who holds allegiance
to party when there Is a possibil-
ity of him securing office thru that
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