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Show i Religion of Today Too Intent on the Advance of Moral Hazards By REV. DR. SCHERER, New York. j Religion is a desperate sorti into the things that ought to be. Oui ( religion at its best is an adventure in the friendship of Jesus; add tt j knew nothing of security, lie condemns anxious precaution it? heathen ish. lie knew no safe life and no safe truth. The only caution He eve: j exercised was against living by bread alone, which ip materialiftn j against worshiping himself and the devil, which is cynicism. Such rirkr ' He did 'ot care to take. He gave Himself to higher hazards. ITis 'if' was a reckless fling for goodness, for which He gave all. Religion of today is too tame, too timid, too tepid. It lacks tie heroic note. Most of us refuse to take any intellectual hazard. We sr j ; afraid of new truth, lest it disturb faith. In the same wnv we ,.r i all moral hazards, for fear they will unsettle us. j |