Editorial August 21, 1902 Issue

The True Standard

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It is not the zealous maintenance of a given point of view, but loyalty to the best light he has, which entitles a man to the respect of his fellows. To perceive and to follow this "high light" is often to entertain an opinion and pursue a course which seems to dishonor traditions that are sacred to many, yet this, in a truly progressive life, is inevitable.

I may not be able to think as my father did about many things, but this fact may furnish me opportunity to honor my father's superiority to his father's convictions, by being severely loyal to my own. The best, most promising thing in every man is not his convictions, perchance, but the fine consistency and close affiliation between his daily assertion and conduct, and his highest sense of truth and right.

So Calvin and Cotton Mather may be revered despite some of the regrettable declarations of their thought and lives, and for the reason that they both have been pronounced thoroughly honest and sincere in their fealty to what they held to be true and supremely authoritative.

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