The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-10-15
WHAT RELIGION Is TO THE NOM.
iNEES

People of all denominations will be
interested to know just how the early
religious training, which both expert
enced, has influenced the characters
and careers of the two leading Presi-
dental candidates, and whether 1t has
colored their political views. All the
world knows that Governor Cox was
brought UP in the church of the United
Brethren, and that Senator Harding
was reared a Methodist and later be-
came Baptist. But we have learned
from their porch and platform speech
es what religion actually means to
them, says an exchange.
Recently, however, both men spared
time from numerous political engage
ments to be interviewed by the Rev.
Henry S. Huntington for The Christian
Work (UndenominationaD. From his
talk with Governor Cox the ministerial
interview came away with the i'm
preston that the Democratic candi-
date has "a real and personal side to
his religion Of Senator Harding the
clergyman says, "In his personal re-
lations in business one gathers that he
has himself been most kindly man."
Both of the candidates agreed that
| the Golden Rule should be applied to
industry. On the question of material
aid for Armenia, in which the inter
viewer confessed deep interest, the
candidates spoke, of course, from OPP
posite platforms. Governor Cox as
serts that under the League of Ma
tons such outrages as have occurred
in that unhappy country would not
continue; but his Republican opponent
declares that England and France
should shoulder the burden, and that
if we undertook the sponsorship 1--WE
might become involved all over the
wofld.''
Speaking of the material influence
which guides him, Governor Cox said:
"In the first place, religion is a tie
with my mother. In the second place,
it keeps working arrangement be-
tween me and my conscience. In my
conduct my conscience is vigilant all
the time.
st was raised if an, atmosphere of
religion. The United Brethren expect
the children to be converted. | united
with the church at the age of fourteen
and was baptised the next Sunday in
the creek on the farm where we lived.
To become a Christian was an ances-
trail practice That was the home at
mosphere.
Religion in the abstract brings
about the best appreciation of right
and wrong. My judgment is that in
the affairs of the world today, if we'll
get close to our religion, no matter
what our religion is, well be very
much better able as individuals to
make contribution to the world. We
haven't had a political campaign in
hundred years where the right has
spoken more eloquently than it speaks
now for the movement to make world
peace"
And here, because or her ancient
wrongs and present despair, Governor
Cox declared:
"The heart of America has bled for
Armenia for years, and it still does,
and for any one to say that the murder
of Armenians and the outrage of their
women do not arouse our sympathy
and our indignation as we'll is simply
to assert that we have lost our hui
man emotions. The ruling impulse in
America is to put an end to that sort
Of thing wherever it is in the world
One of the reasons | am for League
is that l believe that under it such
outrages as have happened in Armenia
or anywhere else would not continue
As to the Eighteenth Amendment,
the Democratic nominee stated ''it is
the law or the land, and as the law or
he land it must be enforced. That's
all there is to say" For counsel and
direction the Governor told his inter
viewer that he turned to the Bible
from time to time, for, apart from its
religious value" he considers it 1.-The
greatest literary production in the
world" and to have ''more of the phil
osophy of lie in it than any other
book"
Senator Harding thinks that Eve
ought to have a cronsecration tomor-
atty in this nation" that I'VE need
hardening of our moral sense" His
early training was in the Methodist
church. Later his mother became
Seventh-Day Adventist, and in mature