The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-04
The Inside Of the Cup
' A great serial
OF ROMANCE, MYSTERY, ADVENTURE
By Winston Churchill
By Winston Churchill

) essary price for freedom. We had
wandered far from the Father. we
had been reduced TO the very husks
OF indiyidualism-beco as swine.
We beheld around us today sell
hshness, ruthless competition, as
great contrasts between misery and
luxury, as in the days OF the Roman
empire But should we, for that
reason, return to the leading strings
OF authority? Could we II we
would?
A little thought ought to con-
vince us that the liberation or
the individual could not be re-
voked, that IL had forever de-
stroyed the power OF authority Ito
carry conviction. To go back to
the Middle Ages would be to de-
teriorate and degenerate. No, we
must go on.
Luther's movement, In religion.
had been the logical forerunner
of democracy, of universal suf-
frage In government; the death
knell of that misinterpretation OF
Christianity as the bulwark OF
monarchy and hierarchy had been
sounded when he said. "Ich kann
nicht anders"
The new republic founded on
the Western continent had an
nounced to the world the initia-
ton of the transfer of authority
to the individual soul. God. the
counterpart of the king, the ruler
in A high heaven Of a flat ter
restrial expanse outside of the
world, was now become the spirit
of a million spheres, the indwell-
ing spirit in man.
Democracy and the religion of
Jesus Christ both consisted. in
trusting the man-yes. and the
woman-whom God trusts. Chris
tianity was individualism carried
beyond philosophy into religion.
and the Christian, the ideal citi-
zen of the democracy, was free.
since he served, not because he
had to. but because he desired to
of his own will, which, paradox
ically, is Gods will.
God was in politics to the con-
fusion of politicians. And in some
greater and higher sense than we
had yet perceived, the saying vox
populi voX del 1as eternally true.
He entered into the hearts of peo-
pie and moved them, and SO the
world progressed.
1t was the function of the
church to make Christians, until
when the Kingdom of God
should come-the blending should
be complete. Then church and
state would be identical. since all
the members of the one would be
the citizens of the other.
81 will arise and go to my father"
Rebirth. A sense of responsibility,
of conservation. So we had come
painfully through our materia istic
individualism, through our selfish
Professionalism, tSa glimpse of the
true Protestantism-Dem
Our spiritual vision was growing
clearer. We were beginning to
perceive that charity did not con-
sist in dispensing largesse after
making a fortune at the expense Of
ones fellow-men: that there was
something still wrong in a govern
ment that permits it.
1t was gradually becoming plain
to us, after 1000 years. that human
bodies and souls rotting in tene-
ments were more valuable than all
the forests on all the hills; that
government, Christian government.
had something to do with these.
We should embody, in govern
ment, those sublime words Of the
Master, Suffer little children to
come unto Me-" And the govern
ment of the future would care for
the little children. We were be-
ginning to do it. Here, as else
where, Christianity and reason went
hand in hand. for the child became
the man who either preyed on hui
manity and filled the prisons and
robbed his fellows or else grew
into useful. healthy citizen.
To he Continued Tomorrow.