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Show Younger Generation No Longer Inclined to Bow Blindly to Authority By CLARENCE C. LITTLE, University of Michigan. Id so far as the younger generation refuses to bow blindly to authority, author-ity, they are, in a sense, living spiritual lives of their own. They are not godless. I think they are nearer the truth about religion than we are. Churches persist in fighting over a dry bone and youth recognizes this. They realize that Christ did not spend His time on earth criticizing the prophets who had gone before Jim, but in doing things and in meeting meet-ing problems of His day. There is a hidden paradox in our efforts to keep hopeless invalids alive as long as possible on beds of terror, and all the time we are supposed sup-posed to believe in an eternal life of bliss after death. Marriage is supposed to be a blessed institution and our conven tions tend to make it an unbreakable contract, but often physical death seems the only means of escape for both contracting parties, who suffer mental and spiritual death daily. |