The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-11
SAYS U. S. LEAST GREEDY
Lays Tt To Lack of Cares
Little for Religion That Does Not
Touch Every Deed - Breakfast
Is Test of Christian Sincerity.

fThe religion of but few men will
stand the test of their own breakfast
tables was one Of the epigrammatic
truths which Fredric G. Morehouse, edi-
tor Of The Churchman and president of
the City club with its 1900 members
in Milwaukee, told the audienc of over
$50 that gathered for st. Andrew IS mis-
sion housewarming Tuesday night. lie
pleaded for religion that will touch
every thought and act Of everyday
life.
"Yod can It be a really good church
member unless you are a good citizen
and good citizenship can It be attained
to without Christian ideals,'' he told
his hearers He said right voting on an
amendment, for instance, is largely a
matter Of Christian ideal He showed
that the finest amendment to state
constitution that ever was prepared, if
submitted to a state whose citizenship
is not made up of individuals with high
ideals, without doubt will lose out.
He lays the tremendous problem of
capital and labor and bad housing, poor
ly paid workers, mothers struggling in
basement lodgings to bring their chill
dren up to decent manhood and woman
hood and the thousands Of other per-
plexities that engross the minds of the
thinkers of today, directly to the
churchmen of generations gone before,
who didn It apply their religion to life.
fThe Guardianship of the nine
teenth century was a small thing he
said. cit meant usually merely attend
ance at church, payment of dues, and
the performance of those virtues calcu-
lated to save the soul Of the individual
When we think of those men, pledg-
ed to follow Christ Jesus as their leader,
ignoring conditions about them, we are
struck by the paucity of their religion.
Out of their lacks have grown our prob
lens. If they had been fighting effic-
iently under the leadership of the Lord
these problems would have been settled
then.
''Take the war in Europe What is
wrong? 1t is the Christian nations of
Europe who are waging that war. 1t is
the men who call themselves Christians
who are filed with hatred and infiamed
with cruelty against one another. Yet
they claim they are Christians serving
the God Of all nations.
"'What is the matter with religion
Whether you look here in America or in
Europe you see that Christianity after
the nineteenth centuries of practice has
not solved problems in accordance with
the tenets it teaches.
The matter is with the individuals of
the Christian communions An East
Indian convert says that the Christian
nations are the ones that are not prac-
ticing Christianity.
"Now it's for you and me to face
this issue seriously. So far, the religion
of our forefathers and our own has
been purely a personal thing. We
thought we could lock it up in our
hearts, save our own souls and keep it
for Sunday use. We felt we did not
need it in our every day dealings with
men and women.
" In the same fashion the people in
Europe are good people who say their
prayers and admit the supremacy of
Jesus Christ in their lives.
What has failed in Europe today
is not the Christian religion. It is the
lack of its practice. 1t is diplomacy,
the relationship between two nations.
"There is not nation today in
Europe that has record for diplom-
acy conducted along the principles of
religious action. Every nation has
been filled with greed and been regard
less of the rights of others. Their deal
ings have been fraught with miserable
intrigues, abuses of power and instanc-
es of might displacing right"
Mr.. Morehouse said the United
States is the only one that can claim
that its diplomacy has been on a Chris
tian basis in the slightest degree and
he insinuates that this is probably the
result of lack of temptation, and cites
instances of rottenness in the city,
state and federal governments of our
nation which would indicate that we
are by no means too Christian to stoop
to unfair means.
Diplomacy he charges, is no
better than it was 1000 years ago. The
governments are just as selfish and un-
just in dealing with weaker nations as
when Caesar marched conqueror at
the head of Roman legions
| Mr.. Morehouse says the idea that re-
ligion and government are separate is
wrong. just so Christian as are the in
dividuals VINO make up the state, just
so Christian will the government be.
He says every man who attends
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