Show GOOn Ss S WITHOUT Th T The thought often olten art alUM In I many man In Inquiring quiring minds mind a all se to whether w or not re religion religion ligion I ta Is to the living lYing of ot that hUrner Me life which the lM best types type of ot man mea and women In the tha th of 01 mankind seeker eker afUr tIr truth have hl ve fre frequently t frequently Iso been perplexed by bJ an art argument a common a it hi S fallacious often el I forth In many forms lorm by tty b writers of great at Ingenuity I and ability It Jt has bait been 1 claimed that men man do 10 not require religious training or faith In a personal God 0 In order to te the exercise urel of the th highest virtues virtue that a man mn con can en be b true tree tn to his hirn hi fellow men J and an to 10 him himself himself self It without the sense ernst len of ot obligation to a higher power In short that the ethical ethil value of af t faith tn In influencing men mm mento mento to rl right ht action eion aUcH U Ic much ma 1 l iso than Ihan has hl ha generally been supposed l fl and la Ia 1 In the th light ot of modern modem me thought a somewhat vanishing quantity According er g to Him ihn 11 who spoke k as ass a man manner never ner speak k the te first f and ant greatest get lt commandment Is I Thou lal love the Lord Lard lAr thy n God Oo and the lh second H I la Ia like Ik unto It Il Thou Tho shall al love 10 thy neighbor a I as thyself Tills Il Thou shall I places man nn under a law under uner a command commandment mint ment which if It he believe In Christ he heIs h hea Is I a bound bun to obey ob The question there tore for i Is oan on mao man IID gt got along as al well nell el with without without Without out as us with this Ih law lawT Can he lie I lve the part of ef the law and love lore his hit I neighbor r as ac 01 himself without living the UI without believing without wi bout car caring cr trig ing la whether there the Is a God also whom wh h 1 he 1 to bound bund to love honor and obey If I we may my credit historical examples like Ik Brutus Drut Pluto Pinto Socrates tel Confucius Buddha IIer Damon and al la I las Achilla Achl and an not to tok to k of ot the many lets lee 1 celebrated but butwell butell well wall ell attested from tm rom the th uncivilized Ila portion rUo of mankind we wa may my conclude that even uren ee outside of ot the tl tel fel fellowship of Christ man mn Is I able abio to ex ox e ere cretan re virtue virtu and a good o works work The Th An Antigone Antigon of ot Sophocles may my be bc mentioned among the l women won Anti Ant lone ion nl In aid I and nd defense of ot her blind blinda a a aced d and father tather King ICing OlP bid bids him to 10 lean len his hi hoary her frame upon pon his h daughters daughter faithful t hand hal Despite Dele all threats she ahe also all tul ful fulfill nil fill tl th tit lb duty of o piety and aa buries burl her hr broth brota body bidy condemned by law Iw to t Me le Ie uhl Against th tM the written law of ot the he state Ut aa which abe I had bad bd thus Ihus trans reused Ir she he appetite appeals in to tonn ton nn sin n unwritten indestructible ansi and eter eternal eternal Ie nal nal which Is lunet not af ot today ay nor lor yes yesterday t s IEry but bitt It live 1 forever Here at atI I I i Ia a heathen hUf virtue that IK is I not In the Ih language I of ot one Oe of o the Ih Chris Can Christian tian ieti fathers lt merely I a a splendid vie YI md who know how bow bw many mAY Antigono I ne inflamed md ned I uncelebrated have faded taie awe iway W Mu they U lack Ick Ii I poet pI The Tb Scripture Romans Roman n 2 strongly represent n the between b we the Ole i It end and the in tk t the world wold asiA and declares duelar that krie shall limit render reader re 1 life l unto such att ef at r rk hem as a seek k for tor f glory honor hono and Im Immortality immortality mortality In Roman BI 7 1 t I the U Apoll hh r that thet h hi wa wee alive sit all without th the tow law once that b 1 he lived on Of without wet conscious nau of tk tM tire divine diviDe Ivl nd And AM in I tk t the childhood cWb of o vt Irl thor there 11 I Ii a ported period 10 wil j pro r ri i d the 1 between conscience IM md dere between the Ih and thu the tl H h Some 80 undoubtedly pa thie Ihl per par pr KM liel iii lit comparative freedom tr from f t S others other may mr b he de denied c nied In is I this thu t sorted rie with 11 akAM 1 and lul viree 01 owing to 10 a I 1 happy nature Kuh sch lived lve perhaps In MP happy and 1 save ar arie N ie lrI comfort without hut much If It any air eon eons s of sin ln In ural th Lit t lf Wits Of o pleasure and avoiding w warn VIM 1 Ire able lays flays Or Dr D Tb TI young youn ou Innocent maiden min who wh grows WI WIlp up lp under U i the of 0 and af sn manner moon who WM glad 1 of I life lt if follows follow her nature and through a happy pp 1 i ill is led I as aa by bya a II guardian spirit to 0 what U ta good I Had M c comely and amiable and aid th the gi youth wAo wl Ur esturo MeU e pr iri 1 hiss him l from t the u ways way wa of 0 Immor Immorality I Ia a who Inn Inner man n I ii ailed wilA wU a wealth of ot future tutu lil I aUlio oUI h ur H ure dPI living wIthout law A a th the HI of t f th tb word wor Of ot the Ih these It i be he that thai i ho h be are lt simply natural slid and sot not tM si i that they aas u tress from C deW I from II II or esther M hus I frets trow 11 a 1 sen of 01 daty I or o r Ii fram Till hu huloa loa of 01 virtie vt NM of ot the Uie U betide UMU a I IJ pea J poop i I L I e tame same tre r l by 1 y rioter Il pleas i alit 11 said and ether eL II laAe re reni ni AI IM lisa Shows own tt 1 re luar M A a nun note Bat from tr more na li liI I 7 V V lure tr he h e wilt wi often ten act It a I as one on bereft at ot ns I a where here t it man mn of ot good o tur laughs where he h should hould frown Irn or r re r prova Pl The Te emm torm tott arm of ot the th argument that a I man cAn n become bm perfect rt t without WIt religion or without faith tUh Is II OCil Ot Is te I this thip If I a I nun man I fulfill his ItIs Id 1 il Ing In anti anil the work ork h he U Is I ap appointed In lit I 1 So Society o elet to 10 do aid aha a I as a good tUt n hOVe and tM d his bl el eto 10 Whet what more mete Ire eon onn fn be required of ot him to in fulfill tull all We W answer that thet If I man Is Ia I merely merl of ot the earth If It Ithe he has hu Only earthly and 81 Hot 1101 hI heavenly relationships and ami 1 lie tue U If it I he ht h If the ti child of lt time an not of ot eternity a then th thee se things may mr b be alt al that Ilat sari oan On In rennin be bl requIred r of 0 o him hl list Hat ob oh observe oa oare serve re that the h common argument J dt t t given begs beg this the question at lit lustre Iu fly by 1 M oil suming that man Is I only oly an earthly be being being ing whereas the question qU wally really Nl ta 1 whether being n father brother r friend the human being Is ie she also and above all al a a man manan an eternal seul lul lula a child of ot the High Many any men man manhave m have hl actually tilled filled with a 0 ble bie degree of perfection that particular of ot their earthly calling to 10 which they devoted them I and yet have hl failed taie in this thirn sense DI an as I men They have failed talt as aa I Infinite Inn nie or 01 O eternal hemp being There Ther are arc many who have become beom fa famous tl moua mus as a a men of ot war Wil like ikI Alexander and Napoleon or who as a artists poets ft men mets of ot learning or have havo In all al things relating tn to I their world coiling calling exhibited the tho finest feelings te ot or duty dut and conscientiousness cn DIU have tu ly oTc v me till all al and anit an obstacles and yet the man nin In their ea case mat may have U wen been en sacrificed le leN to t a the patriot th Ih tho man of ot learning or the Ih pill pol politician l Who asks Johann MUller can an be b man husband father friend ansi and yet lt write w so l Immoderately many man books Subh Such n a type t of t human petter perfection pert tion Uon Is II so no f Incomplete that Iha t to t see Ile It Is to disapprove Observe that tha the emphasis M Is 1 on the word man in to this quotation from Muller There Thee Is II something moro more mor than skill learning ability and an even something more than Ihan morality In inthe n the but best meaning of ot the expression to tobe tob tobe be b a 0 true man mal or a A true woman It ItIs I Itis Is II this something hlo religion rellon sup supplies up plies It 1 Ii I 1 especially that nm fIne sense lens that manliness and ad vigor that modes mode modesty moe ty Iy and ad absence of ot and many mn more qualities that con can e be b under understood understood stood to better beter than Ihan they can Cn be b defined In these Ihs qualities many mn of 01 the Ue great or good fod who have havo seemed eminent without any especial pelal profession of ot religion have usually been found lacking Goodness without religion is II but not probable If I found at all BI It I Is la only In a a few tew cases see In 11 which hl h individual Individual ual peculiarities have hao caused a person to 10 have hae n a 0 religion of ot his hi own ow rather than Ihan none mono at all ni And Ad probably all those oases OS in goodness appear to 10 exist apart from the tho practice of ot the precepts of ot religion there thore is really much more religion than appears rs on the surface The unorthodox man Is II not necessarily Irreligious as t shown hown In lu the th case H of ut Williams Dissent from Irom forms frue of ot religion Is often otell and ali erroneously termed atheism But Ten Tennyson Tennyson nl takes tak a much nueh better beter and truer view of ot this form ot of unbelief Perplexed In faith but pure pUN In deeds At length he rung this music out There lives live mere faith In honest honet doubt Believe me than In halt half bf the Iho creeds creede cres |