Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-12-18 | Page 14 | Be a Radical, is Preacher's Advice

BE A RADICAL IS I PREACHER'S ADVICE i Galileo, Columbus, Edison Alt-Denounced-as 1 Too Flighty. By the Rev. Charles Stelzle What do you do with the "radicals" ! In your town, your church, your labor! union? Kill them off? Tut them In j prison? Hxi-oinmunitate them? Any- , body can do h. It doeen't require any particular . nmount of hi am Mwer to shut off t a man just let-aue you and jour side are in the majority. It's a lot better to understand a ! msn than to silence him. And per- t haps if ou understood him you'd find that be was right even though t he wss diOrent j Kvery man who ever became a i leader was regarded as a "radical." So wis every great thinker every j xcientiMt. every philosopher, every in- j vsntor. was at one time scorned as a J "radical" betaue he wasn't thinking In a rut. lie had the courage tn he different. It's quite pOKMlhle to go to extremes although the greatest danger In most inen'A lives is that they will dte of dry rot in fact, they are alreadv I dead, but unfortunately they don't know ii i Yon needn't worry much shout the 'radical" for If lie in rirht. you i can't Ml on hint bin convictions will finally te n--epted by everybody, ' anywsv. And in whatever rennect he mav be wrong, well all find it out and s will he 1 And so you'd better be stow about i bulking the ialileoK - h ho are sure that the world revolves n lis axis; the Columbunes who init that the earth is round; the Kdisons wo believe be-lieve in the power of elet trlcity ; the Kultons who see the iMwaihillties In the steamboat; the Cothenburgs who have dreamed out the printing press. f These are the "radicals" in practical prac-tical life who saw, even through an agony of tears', while "wise men" mocked and smiled in derision.