Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-15
In the Religious World

room to spare in any head where this
4 lconception abides. Some persons
think that they have a sort of "di-
vine right to headship. Preeminence
is theirs, they believe, by the wisdom
Of the Omniscient They openly
avow. or secretly believe. that God
means them to be privileged and pow
erful: and that they have no obliga-
| ton to the great body of their fell
lows.
women who are inflaming the sore
places in society apd roughening the
points of human contact They sim
Div are unaware of the divine law
| that all of us arc meant to be work
ers together. one with another; and
that the only dishonor attaches not to
Mac. or position, but to failure to be
| Il worker
Tpc Mistakes Of "Nnin street,
Anybody can be success in dream
| world. To shut ones self up within
ones self, having little or no real CON
| tact with other persons, is the easy
| way of living an ideal life-in our i'm
| aginations. There are countless per
| sons. who believe Themselves superior
souls, who thus evade the actual tests
| of life. Most suicides and other fail
! ures are Of this morbid. self-centered
, introspective group; who have been
| accustomed TO cali their isolation by
| all other naures than its real one, which
is cowardice.
| Let us not dodge the clear truth here.
God has put us all in world of men
and women He has decreed that u
| Is not good for one to be alone. Life
! has been so. organized by Him that Wa
are dependent upon human relation
ships He has made us. in the Bihlc
| phrase Members one of another To
carry out tho fundamental program o.
God for the race we simply must learn
| to work together.
Moreover. fellowship with folks IA
one of tho rewards of existence. 1t
| is a happiness as well as duty to
work with other men and women; and
to learn how to be good fellow-lab-
orer in tho great service of mankind
Half baked young persons usually
! think themselves of a different stun
from others: and quite better than
the common run OF men and women
| These notions are merely growing
| palms. usually cured by time; althn
! the malady persists thruout life with
| some untortunates. \ recent popular
novel. Main Street an unpleasart
book. tries to make heroine out of
one of these peculiar and superior
young women. altho to the end she cuts
a sorry figure There is more OF Green
| wich village than OF the average small
| town in tho portrayal OF A life that
is singularly unreal without any noble
! characters or qualities. one rather
pities an author who has no concep-
tion Of the beautiful traits OF neigh
borliness and friendliuess and auiet
service and heroism and codlir-ss
| which characterize the majority OF tn
people Of every normal communlt;-
The world ia being made over. not b.
hysterical and pharislical heroine.
| so absorbed in a "carosr" Of uplift that
they have not strength OF character
to be ordinary good nclghbors: but
by that countless company OF men and
women who have adjusted themselves
TO the inevitable task of working VITA
other people in chccrfulness. helpful
ness and good will.
Everybody. Mn>,evrieee
To work well with others require
two convictions; first. 4 conviction -
ones own personality and duty. and.
second. an equal conviction of tho per
sonaiity and rights OF our fellow work
crs.
| Tho person who IL hts own best rclf
is likeliest to have respect for the in
| dividuaity of every other person witt
whom his ifc is linked. Nobody car
| work well who II not conscious OF his
own dignity and worth and usefulncSs.
| Worms Of tho dust were never meant
TO ho the sssocistes OF God-endowtd
men and women. Neither can ono b..
"a true workfellow who dospiscs his a.
Eociatos, or denies them their inner
ont rights as children OF a common
/ Father.
The slave and tho tyran; arc both
economic failures.
| Nobody ever doss a completed work
Each person but contributes his par
TO a whole in which his fellow worker
| often those who have Gono before.
and equipped him-arc iaborerE wits
| him At tho loom OF life each OF u
| but velves a section OF n pattern. tn
| threads and the machinery and tns
| skill having com. from other worker,
| and tho whole pattern having come
| from God. our care II should he to-
| mako sure that We do not mar tn.
design and nullify the work OF thos.
associates.
\ privilege and Il pride II shcuid hr
TO know ourselves workers together
with God and with our fellow labor
crs. having a share in tho common
task of hfc. That is the real social
ism Of cooperation and of fellowship.
the Bible program for the normal hu-
man being.