The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09


then going to the devil. Just as
though religion consisted in doing
lot of special things just occasionally.
| AS | have said SO many times be-
fore, religion doesn't consist in do
ing a lot of special things, but re-
ligion does consist in doing everything
in a special way as God commands
You to do it, whether it is making
the bread or sweeping your house Or
whatever it may be.
/ Religion is not simply a matter
of place or time, religion is not mat
ter of circumstances, a matter of OBJ
servances, therefore, any idea of re-
lieion which, literally or fieurativeIy,
causes a man or woman to run away
from the world to please God is a
false idea and craWled out of the pit
of hell. It never came from heaven.
Second: Running away from the
world, in order to be good, makes re-
! ligion selfish. | see, by that act, he
says. Il am not interested in you -
not at all" By that act he says, RE
ligion is only for a private affair and
for home consumption, external use
only-that is ALL"
get SO disguised with the way a
lot of people live and call it religion,
that l can hardly hold myself. What
little they do in the universe to show
they live for God! If you never did
any more to show your love for God
than some people know of. you'd
better get busy
Religion Must
Be Consistent.
| am Roman Catholic on the di-
vorce question. If you treated your
, husband that way he wouldn't live
with you for fifteen minutes. We
+ produce here in America, by that
idea, a religious type of men and
) women who are religious in the best
: sense of the word in their private life,
, but who in their commercial and in.
: dustrial and social relations, don't
! seem to think they need anything
) about religion at all
The idea of religion has produced
men whose private lives are good, but
whose public lives are rotten. | mean
! this; Here's a man. He will be true
! and virtuous, true to his wife and
yet he will be miserable, damnable
, CRATER in politics. His private life
is all right, his public life is rotten
{ Here's what l mean again: He will
, be true to his wife, virtuous, manly
yet he will float some get-rich-quick
! scheme and sell some fake mining
: stock and steal money from people
r and he is just dirty, filthy thief. His
, private life is all right, but his public
life is rotten. That's what l am talk
!. ing about.
e While he would not shoot a mar
: with pistol, yet he will buy vote ir
d some board meeting here, set in mo
ton influences which ultimately viii
y take life in some institution tha
l. he owns, because he refuses to safe
II guard those who are working for him
e So we can get a new idea of re
n ligion this afternoon. / think, got ny
e idea of it anyway. And while hi
{ would not give you a dose of poison
n he will manufacture adulterated good:
S that will kill somebody five hundred
L miles from his old joint that makes
the stuff. See? While he wouldn'
a pick your pockets, my friend, witt
It the fingers of one hand. he would no
u hesitate, perhaps, to pick the peck
g cts of millions with the fingers o
i monopoly.
u Religion Must
d Be Positive.
/ While the virtue of your wife ant
Il of your daughter would be as SAT
S in his hands as your own, yet he viii
o help every year to push hundreds o
It cases of virtue over the line into vic
It or bordering on vice, because of tn
e pressure of starvation wages that h
s may pay those working girls. Sc
l. what it means to be religious, pos
II tive and negative?
Now, while he will gladly draw hi
check for ten thousand dollars, 70
some child's hospital, he sees nothin
D. ridiculous and asinne in the fac. cha
n his ten thousand came out of tw
E. hundred thousand, made from a sys
l. tenn of child labor which brushes an
i mains more children in one year tina
is his darned old hospital can cure i
0, ten years.
lie So he will spend a lifetime mass
m ing q fortune and then probably Civ
1t away a few thousand dollars an
II think that the gift will disinfect tn
methods he employed to get it. Sc
Is how it goes?
is In other words, this idea of RI
Of Iigion has produced type of ma
lc who seems to be very religious in hi
at private life, but who is rotten in pull
lie life. Now somebody needs to sd
IA II so lOuQ II Call DS ASdlu elLOuA
II the world and in the homes an
a. places of business, my friends, tina
re Christianity is a religion not only fo
lie the private life, but a religion to b
y, translated into every nook and co
n, ner of your public and private lif'
g, That's religion.
" Every Day Must
d Be a Sunday.
- | have absolutely no respect fc
g your religion if it simply pushes yo
lie down the carpet aisle of cath
ou dral or a church on Sunday mornin
Ill and pushes you into your pew,
ct give a little money in the collectio
Ill plate and fails to keep you Twin
lg decent and straight on Monday.
le. don't give three whoops for your r
ligion on Sunday
re And the preachers must cry oil
tn AGAINST sin; and the modern clerg
er man, in a wealthy and aristocrat
he church, has to take more than hero
lie means to keep himself from dege
1T Grating into a mere seller of beaut
OIL full rhetoric and a brain and a vote
st bought by an organization called
Mt church, for so many thousand dollal
a year, for the privilege of standir
w. up twice week, my friends, and sa
49, l.