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THE OTHER MAN'S GOD
. . ' (Copyrighted by the Sah Jose Mercury)
."Although the men who went to'France to ensraee in the
''"'world war may have tome back with some bad habits, they,
uiuujul itjui mem a new remjiuus ureauin oi view ana a
toleration, acquired in the camps and trenches of France,
I.1' which means much for the future religious life of this coun-
. try. , The men learned to Tespect the religion of the man who
. , . iougnt Dy their side, no matter what it was. The chaplains
leamea me same lesson, it tney neeaea to learn it. As a
. , matter of fact, however, the chaplains were quite generally
the leaders in . this liberalizing spirit and fraternized and
supplemented each other in a manner to greatly encourage
' those who hope to see the spirit of Christ triumph over sec
' "tarianism and bigotry.
Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, one of the twelve Jewish chap
lalns assigned; to the 27th Division A. E. F., has recently
published a book entitled, "A Jewish Chaplain in France."
Writing of the four chaplains who shared his quarters, he
. t. " says, iEvery evening we gathered about our grate fire and
related from the grim business of the day. We sang, played
checkers, argued on religion. Imagine us discussing ; the
' furidamerial, principles of Judaism and Christianity for sev
eral 'hoursv.The five of us were all of different creeds
, , Catholic, .Baptist, Christian, Christian Scientist and Jew !"
As showing the respect the chaplains generally enter
. ' tained for each other's religious beliefs and the manner in
which they co-operated in their work, he writes, "A Catholic
priest told us briefly what we should do in case we found a
f . .dying Catholic in the hospital or on the field, with no priest
at hand.' Then I was asked how best 'the others might ad-
f( minister to a Jewish soldier in extremity. I repeated to them
the old Hebrew confession of faith: Shema Yisroel adonoi
elohemi adonoi echod. 'Hear, O Israel the Lord is our God,
; the Lord is One' I told them to lead the boy in reciting it,
' - or if necessary, just to say it for him, and the next morning
when I brought down copies of the words I was deeply
" touched by their eagerness to know them."
therefore, ve ignorantly .worship, him declare I unto you"!
Then Paul revealed unto them the God of Christianity. But'
there was no assault upon the cherished beliefs of these Athe
nians. He soyyht to lead them from their idolatry to the
understanding alid worship of the true God, but he had char
ity for their condition and knew too much of human nature
to treat their religious opinions with disrespect, contempt,
ridicule, or direct and brutal assault. No man was ever con
vinced of the error of his religious ways by force or by ridi
cule: Men can be led out of error only' by leading them to
embrace the truth. They can not be driven or forced. A
man convinced against his will is of the same opinion stilL
Besides, one does not need to be a narrow sectarian or a
bigot in order to be loyal to his own religious convictions.
We can respect another man's religion without embracing it.
We may properly even, help him to live the religion that
meets his needs, when ours does not- and we will do so if
we have grown above that narrow, disgusting belittling man
ifestation of selfishness which we call intolerance.
The more Spiritual knowledge and development one ac
quires and the nearer he comes to. the Christian, the ideal
life, the more he comes to see that all men are only spiritual
children with imperfect ideas and knowledge. Real devel
opment of soul brings true humility. The truly great in
spiritual power as an intellectual strength know how weak
and ignorant and imperfect they are when compared with
the great source of all strength, knowledge and perfection
and are glad to learn that from the least of God's children,
and often find that they can do so. It is only the small and
imperfect and undeveloped who are sure that they have all
the truth and refuse to learn, even to investigate, anything
new.
Finally all religion, whatever it3 Jrm, is the effort of
men to comprehend, to reach, to do the will of the one great
source of Good. Every man will have a conception of God
that expresses his own spiritual condition. As men develop,
as their spirits become enlarged, their ideas of God change
and enlarge. Men's religion likewise is but an expression of
their inner spiritual condition. To change their religion we
must change their inner condition.
We are somewhat lacking in spiritual development and
discernment ; that is why we differ. We have not yet reached
the condition where we have "one Lord, one faith and one
baptism ;" and we will not reach this condition until, as Paul
says, "we all come in the unity of the faith and of the know
ledge of the Son of God, unto a 'perfect man. unto the meas
ure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Until I have
reached this condition, what am I that I should say that my
religion is the true one and every other is false?
who are premfllnniarians have
no Intention of imposing their
belief on the denominations. Pro
fessor Anderson admits that
"$apli?ts are hafing a difficult
time at present,"! but' points out
that the doctrine j is not confined
to his denomination. He bfgs
Jeave to call attention to the
"proud record of Baptists lor free
dom, spiritual? and progress."
The "spectacle most awful Tin the
world's record- of j wars and mas
sacres" that Dr. Dieffenbach pre
dicts as a result j of the arsres-
sire premillennarian teaching in
certain quarters will probably be
warded off by the good sense of
mankind, which is now being-mobilized
as never before in an ef
fort to prevent the world from
again being drenched in, blood
through political and economic
antagonisms. In, -view of. the
aroused putallc interest in the
discussion. It is pertinent -to qnote
the resolution adopted by the To
ronto Methodist Ministerial asso
ciation the past week:
"Such materialized and local
ized conceptions of the reign of
our LordCpreniellennialism) not
only seem to us out of harmony
with the revelation of God in the
Scriptures, but in our judgment
they tend to restrict the church's
mission to. a rescue work of a
very narrow and limited character."
not aare that the man who
pointed the way to heaven m
Snnday was pointing the way to
the millinery department on Mon
day. ,Tfce ch-jrrh trustees knew,
however, and were satisfied. They
could pay the preacher only $7.5
a month. He drew down $125 a
month at the store and In this
way was able to live and main
tain his family in better circum
stances than the average rural
clergyman.
A good many people will agree
with, and a good ma'ny others
will disagree from the following
comment concerning the case of
the New Jersey preacher, by a
neighboring newspaper para
grapher: It was a fide thing all
'round. - If every country preach
er had a good job during the
week he would preach with more
assuredness and' J enthusiasm on
the Sabbath day."
CHURCH PASTIMES
PAYING THE PREACHER
.! t Without toleration, without real respect for the religious
convections of others, without that charity that covers a
multitude of ignorance, error and sin no man' can approach
unto, no man is even in the way of reaching, the spirit of
; the' Christian religion as taught and lived by Jesus and his
, A disciples, if the JJew Testament record is true. Loyalty to
. -their Master and his principles did :iKtuse"theiirtdi treat
j,i,J ehovah and the faith of the Jews with contempt, disrespect
. and derision. On the contrary, they souirht to build unon
jriiiitjthe new faith and to, lead the followers of Judaism to em-
brace Christianity, not by assaults upon-their religion, but
.,.by showing- their own, the new light.
, .When they undertook to carry the- gospel to the pagan
i world they pursued the same course. In Acts it is related
. that Taul stood in the midst of Mars Hill, and said, Ye men
ot Atnens, I perceive that in all things ye are too supersti
tious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found
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The Baptists of Iowa have asked
an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom, the farmers of that state to con-
To travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive, and the true
success is to labor. Robert Louis
Stevenson.
In the days of the Old Testa
ment it was considered a miracle
for an ass to speak; now nothing
short of a miracle will keep one
quiet.
tribute to mission purposes all
the eggs laid on Sundays from
now until the lBt of May. Will
they shell out?
It is found that the pastor in
a New Jersey country church has
been floor-walker in a New York
department store for a year with
out the congregation knowing
about it. They knew he wpn t in
the big city every! day. but wtre
The pastor of the Methodist
church at El Taso, Texas, is
opening a roller rink in the base
ment of his church to offset somej
of the jazz dancing in the town.
The institutional church move
ment is spreading in most sec
tions of the country.
THE ROOT OF ALXi EVIL
Writing in the Revue de France,
the eminent French scholar. Ca
naille Ayhrard, discovers the in
teresting fact that for pure Bol
shevism Lenine and Trotzky are
mere pikers compared to one
Wang Nga'n Shen, a Chinese phil
osopher, who flourished about the
end of the 11th century.
This ancient reformer, accord
Ing to Aymard succeeded In con
vincing his emperor. Shea Taunt. ;
that h reasons the, internal af
fairs' of the empire were- so de
plorably bad at tnerime was plain
enough for a -wise man to see.
and for a celestially wise empe-
ior eair enough, to remove. To
cause of all the misery, he said,
was money. He induced the em
peror to abolish money entirely
and to take over all the harvest
in the name of the state. The
situation speedily became ter
rible; but, urged on by his head
strong adviser, the emperor was
unable to turn back. Fortunate
ly for the countryy be soon died
killed by care, perhaps and at
news of his death the philoso
pher disappeared.-.
The erratic reasoning of Wang
Shen fa not peculiar to Celestial
Bolshevists alone. Some Chris
tians are in the habit of misquot
ing the Bible touching this same
point. "Money, they say, "Is
the root of all evil." But the
Book doesn't say that; what it
says Is: "The love of money Is
the root of all evn."
In this connection It might be
worth while to consider a story
from Mexico bearing upon another
problem which Is considerably
bothering Americans at this time.
The tale, declared to be a true
one. is to be found in Charles F.
Lummis book, "The Land of Po
co Tiempo." It tells how two
Mexican peons, Cristobal and
Translto, having managed to ac
cumulate a little money, formed
a Dartnershln and bought a 10-
zallon kec of whiskey in ' Santa
Fe, and then started over moun
tainous roads to retail the stuff
in outlying; plazas. They had
agreed in advance that neither
wato:ieiTetheother a drink.
Thla was, necessary, .for v thej
were both hard drinkers. Attei
trawling verarmUes. CrlstobaL
who was particularly thirsty, beg,
ged his partner to break the Vul :
Just once. Xo; . the partner ,rwa
obdurate, , Cristobal plunged, bU
hands in his pockets, dejected.
and in doing so encounierea
soliUry nickel Tie didn't know he
had. Slowly an Idea, came tc
him.- He would buy a drink;
there was no agreement noi
sell each other a drink. He con- .
vlnced Translto and got his drink-
let. Slowly It dawned on Tran
sito that he. too, might buy him-
self refreshment . There is nc
use to go on ; with, the story;
When the two made camp tha ?
night the , nimbi ? nickel leaped
back and forth; for trade wa j
gOOd. -' ' , . ;
There may be a moral in tWr.
' v. i '
Story; there : may even, uo i
morals, or several morals, accord-
ing entirely to one's point of
view. " -.' -v' I'
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Most people will find that they
caq reduce their daily Tation one
third, sometimes one-half, with
out any inconvenience whatever.
Dr. J. H. Kellogg.
Science now claims to be able
to decide what trade or profes
sion one should adopt, but people
will go on trusting to luck just
the same as ever.
Back In St. Louis the clergy
men have agreed to hereafter de
liver only 20-minute sermons. We
have known of some Instances
where that was too long. Los
Angeles Times.
EXCITEMENT. OVEIt rRE-
MILLEXMAIJSM
(Springfield Republican.)
Premillennialism Decame a live
topic the past week with a start
ling address by Rev. A. C. Dief
fenbach, editor ot the Christian
Register, in the Arlington Street
church, Boston. Even those who,
with Dr. Dieffenbach, disapprove
the doctrines of the coming of
Christ now being taught by ex
tremists, must have felt that the
energetic editor overstated the
peril ot sucn teaching. i.tl
A Baptist, a member of the de
nomination which Dr. Dieffen
bach particularly censured, makes
a temperate and urbane reply.
This authority, Prof. Frederick
L. Anderson of the Newton theo
logical institution, denies that
Premillennialism is dominant in
the Baptist church. "Nine-tenths
of our people are moderates In
opinion and they will find a way
to live together," he says. Those
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TTO3 PIRATE ISLANDS
"Say,f say sf Joe Taylor, 1 when !
us fellers In the Pirate Six were
Bitting around , In our eave the
other night, "I've been learning a
lot about pirates since w were
ere Jasv time. Funny how 1 1
happened on to It. i , ,
"Last Sunday we all drove
down, to Hillsdale, where some ot
our relatives live, "because my un
cle Ned was home. He knocks
around a Jot and Isn't home very
much. , . : ... .fr .
"Alter dinner Uncle Orvil was
reading out loud from the paper
tabout how some merchant ships
bad disappeared and folks thought
- there was a pirate ship operating
somewhere on the coast, prob'ly
some ex-German sailors that bad
a ship and were pirating, like In
- , old days. "::
fc..,' V "Then Uncle Ned got to telling
. about bow he'd been down in the
West'lndiea . and around South
America last winter and had come
.j Vacross a lot of ptaces connected
with the times when It was thick
tVlth plratesw:;-'-'1 : ;V
' The Pirate Pea - ?
- , "Ever since Christopher Cblum
- bus stumbled on to America, .he
i ii i
says, the islands down In the Car
" ribbean Sea have been over-run
with 'pirates and have, been the
scene ot lots of adventure. They
are right across the old- route,
you see, where the ships carrying
gold and . Jewels from the Incas
. I had to follow on their way to
Spain. That's why It was such a
favorite hang-out for the pirates.
"These Islands were sort of
rugged and hard to get at, so it
was easy for the old buccaneers to
tit them up as their headquarters
and be safe."- ,
, "What's buccaneersr Inter
rupts Sam, showing his Ignorance.
"That's another name for free
booters and pirates," says Joe.
"By the way. Uncle Ned told me
where that name came from. I
never heard .of it before. In a
place called Tortuga in the Car
ribbean there was a regular pirate
colony. There weren't any cattle
there, so they went over to Haiti
to get their meat, where the Span-
lards had started the raising of
cattle. The cattie ran wild.
Meaning of Bifccaneers
"The men hunted these cattle,
cut the meat in strips, and hung
It over frames to smoke. The
place where the curing was done
was called the 'bucan.' And the
cattle hunters were called bucca
neers. This name finally cams to
be used for all pirates.
: "Well,' I was going to tell you
about these Islands. St. Thomas,
in the Vlrgfn Islands, now belong
ing to the United States, was an
other place the pirates used to be
fond of. Uncle Ned .was there for
some weeks. He saw a kind of
tower on ' a hill that they, called
Blackbeard's Tower, , The people
there told him how way back In
the colonial days it was built by
an old pirate whose real name was
Edward Teach, He used to stay
up there and watch for the big
gilded Spanish. Galleons. :
.. "Blackbeard had got his name
from his big black beard, which
he was awful Stuck up about. He
used to twist his beard up Into
little pigtails and 'tie ribbons on
them. : V" ': . " '-"
End of Blackbeard
"He was a reckless sort of pi
rate and even anchored his pirate
ship as far north as Charleston.
South Carolina. Then English
colonists finally got tired of being
afraid of Bleckbeard. so the gov
ernor of Virginia set a price on I
the pirate's head.
"One day a fighting English
man named Lieutenant Maynard
found him resting in an inlet in
North Carolina. He hemmed him
in with his ship, and a fight
started. Finally Lieutenant May
nard came face to face with Black
beard and fought him singlehand
ed, until the pirate fell on the
deck. That was the end of the fa
mous pirate, but the kids in St.
Thomas still feel creepy if any
one says, 'Look out, or Blackbeard
will get you'."
Just then Mrs. Woods came out
In the yard and catted Herb. Joe
said he was going to tell us some
more about what his Uncle Ned
talked about, but he'd wait untU
next time. So we said s'long and
beat it.
AL STUBBS.
Scribe of the Pirate Six;
CHANG t
im TMW
(Set These Low Priceo
ONE REEL YARNS
THE REST OF TH3 STORY,
There Is nothing the twins like
better than to hear stories of
"When Mother Was a Little Girl.
One day in midsummer she told
them how she and her little sister
bad gone into her grandpa's hay
meadow and made themselves a
house by trampling .down the
standing hay into rooms.
"We had a parlor and a sitting
room with double doors between;
and bed rooms and a kitchen an j
even a barn " Just then thi
phone rang.
. The twins did not wait for more
of the story. They looked at each
Other and said, "Let's us," an4
taking 'a box of crackers and at
apple apiece, they scampered ofjf
to the field where their grandpa V.
hay was shining In the sun. The
trampled themselves a hous4
apiece, with living rooms anil
dining rooms and even sun parj-
lors, and then they set up house
keeping.
It was great fun, and the twins
were enchanted with the waving
green walls of their new house
when a shadow fell across the liv
ing room, and Grandpa a very
red faced and angry Grandpa
came stamping right through the
walls of the houses, and grasping
a twin in either hand gave them a
good shaking apiece. "Look at all
that good hay spoiled what do
you mean don't you know that
hay means money don't yon
know that it spoils hay to tread
it down that way?"
Sheepishly the twins returned
home. "Mother." they asked,
"What did grandpa to do you
when he found you playing house
in the hay"
"He spanked me." said Mother.
"Why?"
"Oh nothing," said the twins.
Mother aughed. "You should
have waited for the rest of the
story," she said. '
And the twins agreed that she
was right.
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