Show fA I A Convert to I T IBy I By DR FRANK CRANE With AVith all the magnificence of Indian IndIa pomp and ceremony mony Devi ta nee Nancy Ann Miller of ot Seattle was vas joined in marriage the tho other day to the former maharaja of ot Ind Indore re She to adopt the faith in order older to wed the man she wanted We Ve ar are a little skeptical as to ta the value of this conversion It is manifestly of ot the order of those who join a church for fOl social reasons or adopt some other religion than their own original origInal one i one for ulterior motives That it was a case of sincere conviction titer fter a careful examination of the evidences is hardly probable But it calls attention to the fact that re re- re ligion with most people is generally but a People are arc Christians In the sense that they arc not They belong to a a. called so-called Christian nation In any case peoples people's religion is usually that in which they are brought up We 0 find ourselves in possession of certain ideas and customs and ande We e apply our intellect not to ex examining ex- ex whether they are well based bated or not but to searching the reasons for proving that they are right James Harvey Robinson calls attention to the fact that we get our convictions largely b by heredity and environment and use our reasoning powers to buttress buttress but but- tress them and not to make them in the first place The incident nt of ot a man roan man who after looking the field over and weighing all the tue probabilities ties adopts a religion of ot his own is rare Therefore the greatest greatest great great- est eat power powel of a faith Is h its power The Thc best way vay to to- get more believers i is to breed them and bring them up For everyone who is converted converted con converted con con- there are lre re ten who have inherited their faith It is singular that a renegade is condemned on all sides whether he Is a Republican that has turned Democrat a Methodist that has turned Presbyterian I or a Catholic that has turned Protestant There seems to be something ot off color in a man changing his faith for Cor any reason In spite of our boasted freedom of ot opinion and action there is a strong prejudice against the sin bin c rity of any sort of a turncoat Copyright I 1928 McClure Newspaper Syndicate A |