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Show Bryan Paradox Is Discussed 1 by Glenn Frank Glenn Frank analyalnir tha Bryan of pohtlre and tha Itr an of religion In hla September editorial la the Century magazine auggesta th?ea alx elementa which ha thlnha con-atltuta con-atltuta the Brran paradox, and dla-cuaara dla-cuaara them In detail later In hla dltorlal: . Flrat. Mr. Bryan la a liberal In solltlra, but a conaervallra In religion. re-ligion. Perond, Ir. Bryan truete human nature In politics and diatruata 11 In relfKton. Third. Mr. Bryan thlnga realla-tlcally realla-tlcally in politic, but emotionally In religion. Fourth. Mr. Hryan exalta freedom In politic, but defeada authority la religion. Fifth. Mr. Bryan makea rlghteoua action the teat In poHlira but aeta up rlghineaa of belief aa tha teat In reHgion. ttlith. Mr. Bryaa !a moet rellgloua when he la dlacuaalng polltera and leaat religloaa a-hea ha la dle etng religion. considering Mr. Bryaa aa a lib-oral lib-oral In pollUce but a conervaf!ve In religion, Mr. Frank nay.: "Mr. Bryan'a political Hherallam ratn e'ed an audience tvecauae It aeemed to offer the maeeea aomethlng for to thos Who llstaued to rm that something we to be taken awy from the "predatory Intereata" and given to them. The reason religious liherstlsm will not gather the eudlrara that political liberalism gathers ts Jut this: lullgtou liner alt em brings t. tha people a t'hrlgt lsnli y that haa aa It baa comfort. Religious cohim-vattam, cohim-vattam, for all Ita atem terminology of divine anger, narrow waa, and rlralght gitea, prsnts hr 1st Unity Un-ity primarily as a comfort, aa a mean of gelling off rather cheaply by Ihe s'mitl deylce of being sorry and believing something "Mad Mr. Brvan become the nrophet of religious liberalism he would have become a vec crying In the wlldemesa. a thing he has neves been, despite the, fart that he baa been ao described for more than half a generation. II haa not led the masses so mich as he made the maeaes articulate. H1nc he ha more or lees ape. rlalised on religious lstia. Mr. Brvan haa, I think, ceased to be a dynamic rellgloua force and haa become be-come simply the special plader for a pagsnlred Christianity thnt la not the religion of Jeeue. but en apoa-tasv apoa-tasv from It. a theological Chrla tianlty which, to paraphrssa Gibbon Gib-bon la considered true by th I masses, false by the philosophers, and useful by the Interests. |