Show Real Test of Morals Is Made in Adversity Morals consist not alone In doing good but in enduring hardships and wrong The severest moral test which most of us meet lies In doing something something something some some- thing that at first seems Intolerable The armchair philosophers who theoretically separate the good life from all aU e relationships might profitably probably face as a n working minister faces the outrageous misfortunes misfortunes misfortunes mis mis- fortunes which ordinary men and women are called on to endure and might well study there the good life In terms of fortitude constancy patience and heroic courage Morals more often than the theorIst theorist theorist the the- orist takes account a of are morale Some meeting their Armageddon In Inthe Inthe Inthe the experience of disaster grow rebellious rebellious rebellious re re- re- re I and petulant some grow stoical and talk about their heads being bloody but unbowed some become become become be be- come resigned and try to bend to the wind without breaking but some lay hold on their calamity as Jesus laid laM laidhold laidhold hold on his cross ross and use It as the I most effective Instrument for good which life Ufe ever eyer fitted to their hand I never have ha seen anyone transcend transcend transcend tran tran- calamity with such positive triumph however howe who did not have hav more than morals at his disposal A Al Always Always Al- Al ways behind such conduct there has been a n total personal resI response onse t to lifes life's meaning which could not be de described described de- de e- e scribed In any terms less than re re- ligion Harry Harry Harry Emerson Fosdick In tn in Harpers Harper's Magazine J t |