Article July 31, 1915 Issue

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with contributions from George E. Dawson, C. B. Hamilton

[The Congregationalist and Christian World]

In the midst of world confusion and distress, and in the peculiarly testing situation in which this nation finds itself, one method of procedure is at hand. If honestly and earnestly followed, it is bound to carry us through the thickets of uncertainty and fear into the clear, safe path of progress and of peace. It is all summed up in the simple injunction, "Keep Christian."

Public opinion is easily, in a time of crisis, consolidated and swung toward moods and policies not consonant with the ideals and purposes of Jesus Christ. Many a man, confronted by bewildering moral issues, may be tempted to surrender his own instinctive Christian judgment to that of the pessimist who says that human nature is the same from age to age, or to that of the materialist who declares that the teachings of Christ are not workable, or to that of the unbeliever who affirms that there is no God, or if there be one, that He does not care what happens on this planet. But by all the sacred vows which can hold and guide a Christian man he is bound, first, last, and all the time, to adhere to and to champion the teachings of his Master. They have always collided with the avarice, the ambition, and the self-interest of individuals and of nations. Yet the silent presure of these ideals of Jesus has brought the world to the highest pitch of development it has ever known.

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