Show The present tremendous antispiritual movement imports intellectual suicide Practical godliness the life of selfishness God or superficiality is not new Every age has Left Out been burdened by the multitude who seem not to know or care if they have a spiritual Ignorance nature or possibility But today this takes Conies In shape in definite teaching both through the philosophy of profound and scholarly thinkers as Haeckle and Metclmikoff and By Rev Thomas Edward Barr Marx and in the vigorous propaganda of Peoples Pulpll Milwaukee materialistic socialism which wipes God and the soul life off the board as negligible factors The battleground of social progress is now as always the human heart This is the citadel to which advancing intelligence has driven the demons of greed and tyranny cruelty and passion Until that is mastered civilization is at the same peril which has overthrown the greatest nations in the past For that mastery the soul life must furnish weapons and methods Three fallacies mark the faulty thinking which so afilicts us now Better conditions will make better men Is it true Religion has always urged that better mon will make better conditions j and that unless men are better in heart improved conditions are not a lasting benefit If as you better conditions you cart carry along a commensurate culture of the soul life a deepening love and reverence shown in honor and justice and kindness then progress is secure But that is not the logic This is the argument Because when a small percentage of a nation become rich and powerful they become wasteful waste-ful and oppressive and debauch the nation therefore if all the people became rich and powerful they would not fall into these snares Agajn it is assumed that because religion especially Christianity has thus far been coincident with great social evils therefore these evils are tho fruit of religion and indorsed by it When MO reply that religion like law and science i has been the struggle of the soul life for mastery then MG are told that because religion has thus far failed of complete success it should bo thrown overboard f Thus humanity is to cut off itS wings blind its eyes and deafen its ears to all the appeals of its higher nature and then expect to escape the pit in which tho glorious civilizations of long ago were plunged when they forgot God y fCLbII7t oc BIVtIt |