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COD WILL GUIDE .THEE: Be ye not as the horse, or as the
male, which hare no understanding; whose month must be held in
with bit and bridle.- I will instruct thee and teach thee in the. way
which thou shalt go. Psalm 32:9-8. j '
PRAYER: O Spirit of the living God, we need Thy guidance, for
the way is strange to us. Keep us from self will. Make us teachable
and then show us the way to walk. j
W PROGRESS IN BEET SUGAR MAKING
? The writer is not able to announce the location, name or
ownership of Salem's first beet sugar factory 4 ,
. But it is on the way. Several propositions are being
-furthered and considered. '1 . ; , .
: ; The railroads have not yet announced definitely, that
they will give a rate that will allow the Rowing of sugar
beets in this district this year, to be shipped to the factory at
Bellingham. It is announced, however, that active construc
tion twork has been commenced on the factory at
Bellingham . .. " - "
' And the rate announcement is expected hourly. It should
not be delayed longer. It should be granted, as a matter of
course. j " ' - ,';s '-Vj ? 'H : .
, t ) There are a number of beet sugar items that are interest
ing to our people; especially since we are looking forward to
being a center of beet sugar making. j 4
. An immense new factory is being built in England, in
Suffolk! contracts with farmers for growing the beets having
been signed. Five more factories in England are expected to
' be arranged for. Also, arrangements are being perfected for
a' new beet, sugar factory in eastern Scotland this year.- AH
this is "being "encouraged by ;"-government sanction. England
proposes to attempt, to become more nearly self sufficient in
, BUgar. . ' 1 1,; ' ,v-; ;;" ; 'I' '-..' r ' !
. 7 ; Work on the new mill at Sidney, Montana, of which Rev.
James Elvin wrote The Statesman a fews weeks ago, is now
going forward. It will take care of 10,000 acres of beets;
will be a large factory. The Holly Sugar company, building
, that mill, will now be second in output in the United States
in beet sugar, being exceeded only by the. Great Western
. Sugar company. Some readers will no doubt be surprised to
know that the Utah-Idaho Sugar company,' building the new
factory at Bellingham, and controlled by Mormon interests,'
, is now only third in size in this country ; below the two others
jUst named, with a Michigan company a close fourth.
i "It is expected that 1925 will witness the largest increase
ever made in the beet sugar output of the United States. It
was over i million tons last year, which showed a substantial
growth; -.- ---- T ,y
SKETCHES OF AN
. (From the Oregoniao)
" ' Ella McMunn of Lake Labteh is remembered by Portland people
who recall her as a feature writer on-a local newspaper, a few swift
years ago. It was then said that she had the true literary gift, lack
ing, in so many writing folk,, and there was no dearth of prophets
to predict that one day. she would be famous. When Miss McMunn
returned to her mother's farm near Salem, however, she entered the
silence, so to speak, and until lately nothing j has been heard of
her. Her first message is a thin paper-bound booklet of essays,
"Down On the Farm," printed at Salem. It is a most unpretentious
effort, but the sketches .therein have caught and, held a certain
fragrance, wistfai, like new-mown clover.'
Books are not to be Judged by their covers', even though an hun
dred experiences incline one to believe that their covers do betray
them. Here is a book that might hold no greater treasure than a
freight of maundering phrases, of labored cleverness and tawdry
style. But that which it reveals is quite different a nature sensi
tive to beauty, affectionately drawn toward the unregarded common
places of life, and just the least bit sadly analytical of self. The
sketches' are realism saved from groasness and stupidity by an un
common sympathy and Intuition. The gift folks once said she had,
ias not failed Ella McMunn. There Is a breath of clover in this latest
work and a little of that mist which hovers over the fields at
morning around Lake Labiah.
4 . Several women have recently arrived at literary success by writ
ing books about country people and their ways. I But how ptale and
uneventful those tales are for the most part, how instant tctJexalt the
sordid and to create a sticky atmosphere of : boiled cabbage and
tnrnips. " Miss McMunn's sketches. of the .farm are not that sort of
writing, and are yet quite as true.
tl the butcher, the death of a
sweetness and of natural pathos in
Years ago when-William Marion Reedy was alive, and the friend
and 'counsellor of, younger writers', he found Ella McMunn of Lake
Lablsa and printed a few of her sketches in Reedy'e Mirror, as he
.would have printed these. Rather diffidently Miss McMunn suggests,
ia a prefatory note, that she may some day write enough such sketches
for'a real 'book, and find a publisher. Certainly it would not be to
the disadvantage jot Oregon literature. . ' r
ABOCT ECONOMY
.There has been a complete re
versal of policy regarding public
expenditures. It used to be that
' everybody-': thought " the public
. treasury . was common property,
a ad any raid upon it was legiti
. mate If it got through. There
. seemed to be no bottom to the
public pocket. .We remember dis
tinctly when the first billion dol-
lar congress was given to the
countryi. It caused a terrific-uproar
and almost cost the republl-
cans aupremacy. i Then we began
talking in "billions and began
thinking fn billions, but there has
r ; been reversa I. We r are now
tfclaking economy, , we reallie that
" . Miutir
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Society Ediler :
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OREGON FARM
The pet turkey, the calf that went
caged canary there is a deal of
her record of them.
the government pocketbook Is our
own and' what we take out of it
impoverishes ourselves Just . that
much. There is a limit to taxa
tion. We didn't used to know this.
We ; used ' to j think, we could ta
people all the time and they would
Listen! Practically - every na
tion on earth , that has perished,
and that includes practically all of
them In the last SO centuries, has
perished because of " taxation.
Think this over. " Think how tre-;
mendously important that is com
ing to be in America. We simply
must look more closely to the ex
penditure of public dollars or Am
erica will go the way lot . all the
other nation of the earth.
A ETDUSTXir
One of the industries that has
sprung up recently has been boot
legging. It is hardly a profession
and therefore must be an Industry.
A former citizen of Kansas now
living in New. York has gone Into
the bootlegging business openly.
Speaking about his undertaking
the other day, he was very frank.
? "I get my supply." Jie : said,
''from good sources and only sell
to a list of people whom I know
or to -whom I am recommended. 1
do my own delivering In a quiet
way and, of course, I keep no of
fice and put out no sign. I have
about 100 regular customers in
addition to friends from Kansas.
My retail price on whiskey right
now is $5 a quart, and it is good
whiskey. I make more than $1
on each quart and my profits run
from $200 a week up to twice that
much. I sell other kinds of liquor
at higher prices, which makes up
for any lack of demand from my
regular customers. . I pay $25 a
week protection, so you see I am
making twice as much money as
I. did in . my old place and have
rery little capital Invested."' ;
! THE MEDICINE SHOW
Stayton is going to have a free
medicine show all this week. The
medicine shows haren't flourished
much recently, but middle-aged
and older men will receive this
announcement with a ; reflective
spirit. In the old days when the
world was bright, medicine shows
helped to keep it so. There would
drift into town from nowhere a ,
band of players, the star of which
was a negro with a banjo. Their
acting may. not hare been: very
good, but the youthful mind ac
cepted the advance notices which
said that they were world famous
actors and ; actresses- U la those
days youth lacked the power of
discrimination and that is the fin
est quality in the world. As soon
as a- person gets so he can tell a
good show from a bad show, he
becomes blase in manner and loses
that fine exhileration of spirit of
seeing Bhows and thinking all act
ors are great and all actresses
wonderful. , .;
The medicine show in the small
er towns relieved the monotony
of everyday life and gave the peo
ple a social meeting place and al
so caused a good deal of work to
be neglected . so they could get
there early to get front. seats, or
even close standing room. 4 y
IT IS NECESSARY
j The legislature is handling a bill
Which' provides' against the affi
davits of prejudice - against a
Judge. If our judges were super
men there might be something to
this, but judges are human beings.
They are subject to prejudices.
They are sometimes no bigger than
the men who stand before them
and they are occasionally vindic
tive. . ..
! It is the right of every man to
be tried before an unprejudiced
judge, and most of the cases are
so tried because there is very little
change of venue; but the right to
change, ' the right ' for every man
to be tried in an unprejudiced
court Is a right that can not be
denied or, abridged, and the law
making body would cripple jus
tice if It undertook to prevent pre
judice being alleged as a reason
for change of Jurisdiction.
END NOT YET
, The world did not come to an
end last Friday night, although a
good many people expected it, a
very few of them living in Salem.
These scares are, of course, misinterpretations,-
as It Is hardly to
be supposed that cheap notoriety
is so valuable as to be bought
with anything . as ephemeral as
this sort of prophecy. . The origin
ators of it must be In earnest be
cause they . know ridicule will
quickly follow if they guess wrong,
j It has been a favorite theme to
predict the end of the world, and
there have been Instances where
ijt disturbed and practically upset
tjhe world for a short time. How
ever, we are paying less attention
to ft because we are less hysteri
cal. We tre making calmer val
ues and are dismissing with ' a
smile what we used to receive with
credulity. ; J
j The end of the world comes to
every generation. ' There are only
three people known in history who
have escaped death, which is the
end of the normal world: People
ought ' to be satisfied . with that
rather thaa Insist on taking them
off by the wholesale.' It is safe
to aay'howeverv that the next
scare will have fewer followers
than .the one just passed. .The
people will reflect more on what
has been prophesied and pay less
attention' to what' is prophesied: '
!TIS A.IPITY-
A boat on the ocean "near As
toria was in the midst of a storm
it "could . not'.- weather. " , While
floundering In the" last stages an
other boat camoalong, picked .up
the discouraged ; seamen; and
brougbt them into Astoria. What
was the reward? Did the city and
country turn out to give then
royal welcome j. and herald thiem
everywhere like they did the di ivt
ers of the dog teams to Nomet
Hardly. - The rescuing party I vas
promptly arrested and held in
jail. . It seems they were boot
leggers." ' , r: : 7 ' S ' f
We have always bad an idef
that If we were warden of a pen
itentiary and knew that officers
were waiting at the gate to re
arrest a discharged convict,; We
would find some means td'let him
slip out tne back way. We would
not violate the law, but we would
take our eyes off him a' minute
in order that he might have a
chance for his liberty. We feel
the same way about this boat.
We can not help wishing that the
law had at leastwinked and givn
this' boat a change to get away. It
is a poor reward for heroism io
arrest the heroes.
A STRONG POSITION
It must be confessed that Gov
ernor Pierce in his Portland port
veto message took a position that
win strengthen him before the
people of Oregon. 'He can afford
to have the legislative humUiatlon.
in order to score before the peo
ple. As a matter of fact the Port
land port commissioners ought to
be elected." : Its wrong to ap
point them. In the. tight with the
legislature Governor Pierce , was
not tactful in forcing it, but pos
sibly he had In mind all the time
an appeal .to the people on a sub
ject which did not trample on
their toes but made them line up
as partisans for him. There Isn't
a reason, on earth why the Port
land port, commissioners should
not be elected, and Governor
Pierce managed to get that quite
prominently in his message.
IS IT REACTION?
For a long time there has been
a feelinff that the federal govern
ment was encroaching upon state
government. As we become great
and our diversified interests be
came more unified, we needed na
tional control. That has been go
ing on for a number of years but
the opponents of the child labor
taw seized upon it to fan the dy
ing sentiment into flame. .The re
sult has been a reaction against
federal control. How far it will
go in that direction, no one knows.
It may be that we are, in. tor ta
swing ot state rights, but pi
guess is that . the federal govern
ment will win and the people' will
realize that the best legislation is
legislation for 48 states.
. Thought for Every Day r J
By Ed'itor J. B, Parker of The
""Conway (Arkansas) News "
John Martin, the feature writer,
in a catchy little poem tells how
he sent three ships a-saillng.
Their cargoes were Love, Honor,
Purpose. Smiles. Laughs, and Fun.
Fretful moods and sulky fits.
and fear and malice, and. priggish
pride, were carefully omitted from
the cargoes.; - . ;
The- cargoes of Love, Honor.
Pumose. Smiles. Laughs and Fun.
were welcomed in every port and
throughout the trips Joy: content
ment, and peace reigned aboard
the ships. 1' :! , . . ' ' : r -- I '.
Of course those ships experienc
ed stormy seas and cloudy days.
but the passengers did not suffer
because the cargoes - were filled
with sunshine.
In these rapid-living days too
many persons load their ships with
fretful moods and sulky fits, and
fear and malice, and priggish
pride, and it lsn t at all strange
that they are always sailing Over
stormy seas that threaten to wreck
them. 1
Better ' throw those cargoes
overboard, and then load up with
Love, Honor, Purpose, Smiles and
Fun. and you will be chartered
into harbors where are Success,
Peace, Contentment, and Prosperi
ty. : " ; . ' . .
RTM0SES3
As a man's knowledge Increases
his beliefs decrease. - f uir i i i
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Sometimes . the only , thing sor
row, yields to Is flattery, j ; ;
i15 ; -' o 1 r?.-'.;V' " ; :
v !No,mBnwho really, under
stands himself is ever vain or con
ceited. - - ",v:; j;' i .H; .
No one expects a beautiful wo
man to devote much time to her
Intellect. ; 'j :, 1 ' v t--;
-A woman's respect for a man
is considerably increased! when he
really gets' madi i s - -
" m. Palmistry ia a ruse often adopt
ed ta get hold bt the band ot some
One you think you are stuck on.
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lies Heck says: "It's easy to be
good the day" after." ' ,
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THE ICONOCLAST T -
By Homer C. Dahl
It .makes me tired when I think
ijow we're controlled by habits;
Despite pur brains we are. by Jink.
Just like a lot of rabbits.
In , many things we do or say
We're like a well-trained chorus.
We sing. Twas always done that
-i; "'Wy; ;;! f .
y those who went before us.,.
We say, "It's good enough for me
Recause it suited lather.
the truth Is, in reality, .j.
to change is too much bother,
for instance, why should custom
I , force
Us folks, when eating dinner.
To make desert the final course
Instead of the beginner? i
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Desert should-come first on the
bill
For. after it was eaten.
We'd save no space, but eat our
- ! fill; li'll' H '.'.-!;.-"..
The plan cannot be beaten. '
In my own home I'd do it, too.
If I could, but dog nab 1 it! i
My wife says we'll continue to
Stick to the old-time habit!
i The Oriental Boycott "r
"I suppose in China they eat
chop suey three times i a day.
John," said the American, who
struck up a conversation with the
Chinese waiter.: ; i . , . ; : i
"No," replied John, "Chinaman
no llkee Melican dishes."11 .'
i I: Otto II. Freud.
-, '' At All .Coptg,' ' ' , j ' ' ;!
An old maid who dreaded detec-
.;.- tion r t ;.,!, 4 1 (ifj ijij,;;..
Used powder and rouge to per
I : fection; ; . j ( i( j, , i,ij,-j;.M..
When a -bewhiskered beau
Tried to kiss, she cried: "No?
I must keep that school-girl com
plexion!" ,j ,'!.; : .
Louise parton.
Dangeronn ThousJit !':!:-
Wlllis: "If I- was to hit that
traffic cop on the nose would I
be arrested?" , i . i
Nillls: "No. the cop would be
arrested. Murder is murder!"
! Mrs. Paul Frankel, L
I'll send something good one tof
i these fine days : r i: i ,': :
And; my name mid The Fun Shop
I stars will blaze.
-Lester Nicholson.
Out ' Where the Business1 World
Buries Its Dead i
iff
r it
Right here lie the bones of Cor-
' i nelia B. Japer; : ' . M
Her! boss was dictating she rat-
' tied a paper, n i j -.t fiKHin
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Under this headstone sweet Kitty
I Smith lies; 11 ,! ! :! n'rin
Her; pen Sputtered ink In her dear
boss's eyes! , fi'h, Uit-jfi-;
Here, with arms folded; lies Tillie
Mc Cue: fill. lilmf.fiKilHf
The boss cracked a joke.! She
said: "I read that, too."
Here lies a stenographer, Margaret
Dunn; -j:;;..,. , if ! j
She rolled naughty : eyes at her
boss's young isonl i .
Here lies what is left of Angela
j- f McLauter; 1 i j ! hi :!i'v! '
She lunched with i her boss and
the boss's wife caught her!
! I Alice Lake.
' Yes, They Do !
'My dad's a traffic cop, and
when he holds up1 his hand, people
stop right now!" boasted tommy.
f'That's nothing.'t ! ' said Felix.
"My father's !a! preacher, and
people stop when he holds up one
finger." ! ,Mii;ii;.:H ,V
Mrs. Frank Bernstein.
1 1 Mi'f iiMnMMiii-t-
Verses and Reverses
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. A Little Dew
"You were as lovely as you could
bei i -jifi:!, ;-..:f ; : f;, -T
3 bring , these . beautiful ' flowers
:-- to xne. ji'j ji -;l M -!.:;-""
And .you kept, them so fresh! I
wonder; how? , ; '.
believe there's a! little dew on
them now.'? tl ii
am,
Well -y -iyei, there Is," he stam-
mered,
"Ahem!
But tomorrow I'll finish paying
for
theta!"
. j ) 1 M. Thomas.
Slight Mistake
In . describing j a high-toned wed-.
. ding. .j1''i ;ff-N ;JfV
The reporter intended, I think.
fn fact, I've no doubt about it
To say ''The roses 'were pink."
Whatever happened. I j know not,
Unless, maybe the j printer was
iU- drunkJ.iJJi- j. f -,j J J
put when I 'glanced at the notice.
It read VTh rostss were punk!"
:- ---: ' j -Edlth Leominster.
Made No ifBt lal Hid Mind
"Did yeurj son i get 1 a! diploma
from the grammar school?" I f
No. AH he got was his vacci
nation scar, ) f Mentally he was so
healthy that ihis education would
hot Uke.1
i'm 11:. I JJv tu M:i'
Molding' Process 1
Margaret: i ;"How are you get
ting on With your new chaper-
006 1-?
it
Mae:I "I think IH like her as
soon as I get her broken in."
Mrs. Oscar Rentz.
Didn't Burn It!
Captain: "And we were entir
ely out of fuel on board!"
Sweet-Young Thing: "But you
said you kept the log."
William Sanford.
But He Probably Talked To Her
Mrs. Bedford: "I've talked and
talked to Junior but it does no
good. Seems like he will only
take advice from fools. John, you
talk to him once."
Mrs. H. R. Sherman.
(Copyright, 1925. Reproduction
Forbidden.)
STUDENTS GET DEGREES
SILVERTON, Ore., Feb. 7 (Spe
tial). Twenty-five degrees were
confered upon students of the-midyear
class of 1925 at the comen-
cement exercises of Silverton hlghj
school here, Thursday night. The
ceremonies were held at Eugene
Field auditorium. .
Prof. Dunn of the University of
Oregon gave a commencement ad
dress, "The Heart of Bruce."
Other numbers on the program
were: instrumental numbers . by
high school orchestra, song by
choral society quartet, composed
of Mrs. S. Richadson, Mrs. M. G.
Gundersen, .Mrs. Gordon McCall,
Mrs. G, j Bentson, vocal solo by
Miss Alice Kaufman and presenta
tion of diplomas by Robert Goetz,
superintendent of SllVerton
schools. ,
f EDITORIALS OF THE j
' PEOPLE
Editor Statesman:
ij HOUSE BILL No. 301
J This js proclaimed a public
health measure. , It Is in fact a
cfever devise aimed to place in the
hands of jthe "regular" physicians
a weapon by which they may des
troy competition and establish for
themselves a legalized monopoly
of the healing arts.
' ! It "defines "Doctor" in terms
designed jto exclude the use of any
system, method, apparatus or dev
ice hot Jfirst formally approved
by the regulars. i
A It establishes a licensing board
''stacked' against every practi
tioner not subscribing to their
method ind "ethics." It 1 places
unlimited legislative power in this
board by' which the board may
make any rule, or regulation, or
designate, any qualification, or
requirement it may deem neces
sary to tarry out the provisions
of the bill-protection of the "reg
ulars." , Can you beat that?
I Its power is supreme and all
embracing. It gives the "regulars"
an air-tight cinch on the profes
sion by criminalizing every system
method, apparatus or appliance
used in healing, not first approved
by the self-styled "regulars." f
I This bill establishes a "code of
ethics" which Includes all moral
and professional demands univer
sally accepted by all practitioners,
and in addition Includes the sin
of advertising. Advertising is
anathema to a "regular" unless
It is free. If paid-for it is a
crime to advertise. Advertising
Is the avenue through which his
competition reaches the public
with advanced methods, practices
and apparatus which often dis
credit the "regular." therefore he
would make it unethical to dis
credit him and would criminalize
the practitioner, or method, in
strument of apparatus who would
so offend his lordship.
' These are ' few ' of the points
which indicate the vicious nature
of the bill. It is vicious in prin
ciple and application. It is based
upon a! vicious motive which sub
ordinates public health protection
to the protection of the "regulars"
by creating for them a monopoly
and a franchise of a close corpora
tion, !. ' " . ; .
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A CATHOLIC ATTACKS BIGOTRY AND INTOLERANCE
Copyright 9925 by San Jose Mercury : , -
1 Father T, L. Riggs,who is chaplain of the Catholic club at
Yale university, writing in The Commonweal, the new Catholic
weekly published in New York declares that "unless Protes
tants and Catholics agree to disagree on religious questions and
learn not to believe all the slander they hear of each other,
religious divergence will be synonymous with civil strife,, and
our future will be dark indeed."
to his view. 4 includes the wish
point of view, the determination
until the contrary is proved, above alt the willingness to nvc
at peace with fellow citizens of all creeds and of none and' to
cooperate 'with' them for the welfare of the common country.
.This writer insists that "all attempts at mutual under
standing must fail unless accompanied by mutual trust. If
many Protestants need to learn that Catholics -are not taught
to lie to them many Catholics need to realize that many Prot
estants are not taught to hate
both Catholics and Protestants to correct the frequent misun
derstanding which each has of the essential beliefs of the
other, and especially not to accept as true the outrageously
false and slanderous -statements of ten circulated by bigots,; I
and that both can unite in combating the spread of intolerance, 4
not' by denymir their differences, but by seeing their differ
ences as they really arc and acknowledging each other's good
faith." - - - ',,- : .
This writer sums up the matter thus: "Possibilities of fric
tion must apparently remain so
ed to advance the cause of what is seen as vital truth in ways
incompatible, with charity toward those believed iii error. In
other words, intolerance of ideas certainly tends toward intol
erance of persons. Yet whatever imprudence or cruelty has
been shown in the past by Christians of all kinds, surely no
Christian is justified in letting this tendency prevail, and cer- i
tamly no Catholic can find support m his church's teachings
for a zeal for orthodoxy which'
unfair, advantages, or refuses" to
religion the country to which both owe allegiance. " V ; ,
This contribution to the struggle against religious bigotry
and intolerance will be heartily
religious freedom, and should be by every Christian of every
denomination. .JYVhat possible good can come from our : con
demnation of the religious beliefs of our neighbor and bur os
tracising and persecuting him on account of his religion. Uy
such a course .we do not destroy his faith in his particular
church or denomination. As a rulo wc make him more loyalv ' 2f
to it. Nobody, was ever converted to any faith by abuse, con-S
demnation and brutal, unreasoning, unchristiau persecution,
and no one ever will be. The great evangelists of the world J
from Paul down to Billy Sunday, never descended to persecu
tion of other religions.- That is not the way to reach and hold
the heart of mankind.
' There is a common impression that bigotry and intolerance
arise from very strong religious convictions. Nothing of the
kind. They are only brutal and disgusting exhibitions of self-
ishness and arrogance. The man: who has no respect for the
honest opinions of others has not even the first essential of ,
good 'breeding, to say nothing of Christianity. Even more,
the man who believes that" all the religious truth that is nec
essary for him to have is embraced in the circumscribed, intel- .
iectual statement of supposed religious truth that he calls his
creed or confession of faith is therebj- exhibiting his ignorance
of the teaching of the Master, who did not profess to have re
vealed all the; truth. He evidently contemplated spiritual de
velopment and increase in spiritual knowledge as well as other
things human. Did He not promise us that "when he, the
Spirit of Truth, is come he shall guide you into all truth!".
Can there be more than one opinion as to the attitude of f
Jesus toward the intolerance still more or less common in all
the organizations' of men who have taken His name and think
they are His followers f He rebuked His disciple, John, for say
ing, as it is recorded in Mark, "Master, we saw one casting out
devils in Thy name, and he followed not us; and we forbade
him, because he has not followed
him not; for there is no manfwho
name and- be able quickly to speak evil of mff. For he that is j
not against us is for us." , V'
Paul also gives m a great lesson in toleration in the four
teenth and fifteenth chapters of Romans. " Here are some-of his
words: "For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he
that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and
approved lof men. Let us therefore follow after the things that
make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another."
"Ve, Ihen, that are strong ought .to bear the infirmities of
the weak,, and not to please ourselves. Ijet everyone of us
please his neighbor for his good, to edification."
. The selfishness and ignorance joI men makes them loyal
to their own particular church or denomination instead of
having the broader loyalty to God, to Christ and to the truth
as it is revealed to their own hearts. - The man whoee spirit
has been quickened, who has been truly born again" as Jesus
says we must be, has "a surer way of prophesy" than dogma,
or creed or confession of faith. He does not need a creed for
mulated by some "one for him to keep him in. the "strailit
and narrow path." He docs not'necd a eatechism to tell him
what the truth of God is. He does not need the threat of hell
fire to keep him from sin; tThe law of God is written ra his
heart, and the love of God which dominates his life,' fills him
with love and charity for ;all mea of every faith or of no faith, f
This love necessarily destroys in him all narrowness, bigotry v
and intolerance. " , v-
- The Scripture says, ."De not deceived by vain word3.
Vords, dogmas creeds are not religion... Religion is an attitude,
a condition of the sould and where it really exists will express
itself fu a. life of righteousness, love and peace with all u-.cu.
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