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Show in oreder to keep out: of hell. That would be like getting into real trouble which we know to escape imaginary trouble which we believe in. Mortality saves from real evils; Religion from imaginary evils. Morality Mor-ality makes for safety; religion for salvation. We hold that salvation is unnecessary, for there is nothing to be saved from 'hereafter, whOe morality is essential to safety in man's life on earth. We can see the results of good behavior. A moral man leaves nothing to believe in. Man can see the result of his action; he cannot see the result of his faith. Religion cannot show that it saves a man hereafter, morality demonstrates demon-strates its safety in good conduct. We claim that the onjjr thing which saves a man is morality. If a man does right he is not punished; he pays the penalty of no wrong-doing. Morality has no hell. There has been a wrong incentive for man's conduct given by religion, which has resulted in making man more anxious about his fate hereafter than about his condition here. The importance of believing what will keep man out of hell has been preached to the exclusion of what will make him clean and upright. It is a fact that the church does not teach that morality saves man, the most important instruction that can be given to the human race. Morality makes man a decent man, makes him strong and reliable. The one thing that the world suffei-s from is the lack of morality. It has religion enough and to spare. i DOES MORTALITY SAVE? We have ben told that only religion re-ligion saves. We disfute the statement, state-ment, says the Truth Seeker. The only thing that religion saves from is a thing which religion itself created, cre-ated, and which cannot be classed with actual evils. I konw that Jrom the pictures of hell drawrk by the pulpit-artists of the eighteenth century, cen-tury, it is sufficiently terrifying to make a human being wish to escape its torments, but when we reflect that its existence depends entirely upon faith which cannot be substantiated, substan-tiated, there seems to be no great necessity of getting into the church |