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Show ImZZHZHZSI nn has found various reasons for being be-ing honest. A man may bo legally honest. l?fkCSOria i''at moans hnt lie pays his debts and car- rics out his contracts according to law. He IOP either fears or respects the law or both. 1 . A man may bo honest because ho fears JLJGlXlg God. In that caso ho complies with his JJqU obligations to an extent that in his judg ment will appeaBo his deity. Ho is honest because ho fears God's w.rath or ho may By E, L. FHlLlPP, fear both law and God. Either form of MiiwiukM. honesty is beneficial to society and in either case the man wins the confidence of the business world, but in neither case is ho fundamentally honest. The man who feara the law only will not hesitate to do thoso things which aro wrong, for which he can escape punishment either because of lack of law or because of mistakes of tho law. The man who"is honest because ho fenrs God's punishment possesses nsshivering soul that.il not in harmony with his own acts. If ho could ho convinced that God had gone blind to his misdeeds would immediately remove all restraint from him and ho wduld probably becomo a rascal. A truly maK honest man is ho who rises above selfishness and deals fairly with his BjH ' brother man, becauso he loves him and believes that it should bo 6o, In B' other wriiwh'G., observes the truo spirit of tho brotherhood of man. So ' it j8 witlTToHgion. To bo religious ,for outward appearance is a fraud. To' be religious mt of fear is a lack of confidence in- the God vo -worship. EH ' , The thie'religion is thut of revei-cnco und love. |