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Show ; sflOEW--!i vow ; THE TELEGRAM prints tonight the first of a series of Saturday evening sermons to be written each week by 1 clergymen of different denominations, "especially for TELEGRAM readers. The first is by Dr. Benjamin J Young, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church, t who calls his sermon "A Ilomily on Christian Citizen- ship." - many quarters it is excluded from human hu-man thinking:. To divorce politic from righteousness is dangerous. - The pure secularization of government will not bring; us to theyhelghts. Says Washington Gladden in a recent article: "The. truth that the constructive elements of political society are divine elements; that the social order not less less than the natural order is the outworking out-working of the divine purpose; that In the state as well as in h plant there is a stream of tendency hy which it strives to fulfill the law of its being this is a truth of which we have not, as yet, made much account." There must e some recognition of the 'will of God operative in th world. ? ' If you love God you must love man. If ' your do not . love . man you cannot love pod. The social commandment is of primary pri-mary Importance. Religion must aim not only -at getting men into heaven but at getting heaven Into human environment. Its function is to save men from a pres-( pres-( eat hell. Jesus Christ is also a social Savior. Environment .Is sometimes the 1 power of Satan unto destruction". The ? principles of the master muM quicken i around men that they may quicken also " wttbln'men. J ' Indolence on the part of those who pro-r. pro-r. fess to follow the highest ideal is not : Inspirational. There must be a more ac-f ac-f tlve effort for the establishment of Justice among.- men. A wrong solution of some of our problems, an unchristian adjustment, will bring disaster to scores and will not be without peril to our free institutions and to government. The civic conscience must be kept keen and alert. Where the . civic conscience is dead, crime and corruption cor-ruption easily flourish. The very needs 1 of our cities constitute a claim upon every high minded cltlsen. There is dan ger sometimes that fhe moral Issue be lost amid the clamon, xt partiea. Someone Some-one -has said: "Whoever has voice or Influence is under moral ' obligation to use his voice and to consecrate his Influ- en re to the true cause needing advocacy, and to advance which he has personal responsibility, and for which he must render ren-der account as for the Just and righteous will of God given him to do on earth." To Vote a Doty. Men who profess to'follow the best owe it to themselves to be watchful of public Interests. The tendencies of certain institutions in-stitutions among us must be studied with care. Certain forces are entrenched in society which ought to be driven out. Emphasis is put upon the right of suf-' suf-' frage instead of upon the duty involved by It. I should not fell to exercise my right of suffrage and to do this with respect re-spect to the welfare of those about me. . The ten commandments are not above politics. God is in the world and I cannot ki awav from the operation of moral jr in social and In political life, "The i ,irst enemies of free institutions may 54 be the corrupt, or the insectivorous Iltlrlans- who. swarm around the spoils office, but rather the Indifferent good, who do not care what happens in the poliftcal hive so long as their own private interests are not disturbed." Men with the fear of God In" their hearts will fail in their relations to society socie-ty if they give no attention to at least one factor of modern industrialism. I have reference now to the anonymousness of the great industrial machine. Certain lines of .Industry seem to depersonalize, la them men seem to become less men and more machines. What a terrific Indictment In-dictment of this Sinclair gives us In 'The .- Jungle." In large degree Sinclair is correct. cor-rect. The crushing of personality is one . of the terrible facta of present day industry. in-dustry. Wherever men toll the man most not V be lost. A .man ought never to be spoken spo-ken of as "a band" or treated as a ',i "t?im" He is something more than ' : a part of a machine. Manhood must be ' preserved. ' The human voice must never be lost In th'e "hum of the mere implement. Every man carries within him the image of God. The degradation of the one is the injury . of all. Each man must count for one and no man for more than one.. It is for man-i man-i 1v treatment of men that I plead. And such treatment as that which Christ de- - mands for all will be a mighty factor In solving the problems which baffle, and in answering the questions which perplex V in this modern way. For Christian Civilization. 'Religion' must have its part in social : and political life. Citizenship must be Christian. In materialistic philosophy there is not much hope for men. The '- negative postulates of unbelief are dan-' dan-' gerous to the social fabric. It is impor- tant thst the claims of God be recognised - in the whole round of life. The truth of Divine Immanence has been intensified . bv the' evolutionary philosophy, yet in |