South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-16
Sunday Morning Breakfast Talk
By Rev. Elmer Yard Cole

thing 20 do. This accounts for the
fact that some men can hold small
places in the world and parform
their duties without worry 20 them
selves but when you put them into
places OF respous .bliity they are I'M
able 20 cope with the greater prob
lens The small man disiikes re-
possibility and hence De shuns it,
For this same reason there is the
skeptic-he cannot grasp big prob
lems and because Ee cannot under
stand the Orkings OF che universe
DE refuses % believe there Is SUI
preme rule- that guides ITS destiny
Because he cannot sec the plans up
on the tresseIbocra he refuses 20 be-
lieve there is any architect back OF
70 all. lie simply has 10 horizon. He
needs 90 see-to enlarge his vision
tn trying 20 catch his wider view
Of things we need 20 understand that
science is not religion. 70 is only the
servant Of religion. Science cannot
take the place Of religion. in fact
nothing can. 10 occupies a realm all
its own. Man wants an explanation
for the past a guide for the present
and q hope for TIC future. this re-
ligion gives lt Is the realm 90 occu-
pies The lodge cannot take the
place Of religion 90 can only do the
work Of religion IN this life. It's work
ls material and when il enters the
realm of the mystical IL has lost its
place. II does not belong 90 the realm
OF the lodge 10 conduct a funeral
service and when it does it invari-
ably fails. The man who stands over
a grave and utters earth 10 earth.
ashes 20 ashes. dust to dust needs
20 be a saint and he must stand
there by the authority Of God He
must have the ability 90 soc beyond
this world Religion is bigger than
denominational life. 1t is the small
preacher that is always crying BE
loyal 20 your denomination II is
The big preacher that says BE loyal
90 the great principle OF religion in
Christ" Thank God denominations
are dying and we are on the way 10
great Universal Catholic Church
that viii include all Of Gods believ-
ing children No man who thinks
cares 20 be shut up In one denomin-
alton He wants 10 be where he can
secure an uuobstructed view OF
Christianity and its workings. The
small man belongs 10 denomination
and the big man belongs TO Christi
anity. The same is true OF politics
. 70 takes a small man 90 be a politi
clan but it takes a big man 10 be q
statesman.
i Because Of this horizon that mer
are getting, there is growing up q
F great brotherhood of man, bigger anC
I greater than any denomination. al
big and as reat gas Jesus Chris
himself. The man who has Caugh
this vision is going 20 work to rid thu
world of poverty pain, distress an'
want. He is going 20 do his best q
bring on the millennium by doing hi
share of the world s work and bear
ing his share of responsibility. DID
YOU ever debate with Yourself TIT
question "if all the world was hon
I est o" What would happen2 If al
I men did as nearly right as they knew
how. then what would the wOrlC
/ be? And have You thought OF an,
/ reason why the world should not b'
] n Paradise? We all want this Ole
world TO be a Paradise and human
I race to he an ideal race We wan
. heaven here and now and why no
have &c? Neither the world nor tn
race can be any greater than its i'm
dividual parts. start with yoursel
purify your own life-make your
self holy-so holy that when me-
touch the heu of your garment the
will feel the contaCion for goodness
and go away from you with the pas
sion 10 live the God-Iifc