Article July 15, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from Lyman Abbott, Robert H. Gardiner, Charles Stelzle, R. J. Campbell

[Pacific Christian Advocate]

It is a striking revelation of the imperfection of the race to find it needful to have men who make it their work to defend the truth and to plead for its acceptance. One would think that all persons would gladly receive it and loyally obey it. On the contrary there is truth that is rejected, beauty that is refused, goodness that is renounced, and divinity that is mocked. Why should it require persuasion to secure allegiance to the good? With all the argument and entreaty which the ages have experienced on behalf of right, the fealty won is but partial and imperfect.

To every such inquiry there is an answer within the inquirer, and the fault of the race sometimes is a judgment against ourselves. To know ourselves is to know why other men are indifferent to these highest interests. In the human heart there are prejudice and passion and an unwillingness to part with habits of thought and methods of living. There is a mental ineria which prevents one from readily accepting a principle at the expense of another already in possession of the mind. Mental riches are as real as those which are seen and handled : they have been dug from the quarry of opportunity, and with toil placed in the recesses of the mental treasury.

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