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Show FAITH AND CONDUCT. Mr. Sydney Low, in the last issue of the "Nation," "Na-tion," returns to the discussion of an interesting topic, namely, given a man who believes sincerely in a religious code and acts up to it in his individual indi-vidual life, how comes he to ignore or contravene it in his social, public or commercial activities? Mr. Low is dissatisfied with Mr. Chesterton's reply that a man's life is, as a rule, a reflex of his religious relig-ious principles. He does not see how any one who looks at the facts before his eyes can deny the separation sepa-ration between religion and conduct in, modern life. It seems to us that Mr. Chesterton is right. Men are affected moreor less by the religion they hold. If they hold it firmly and feel it deeply, their entire lives are governed by it. If their faith is weak, it affects their conduct but only in a slight measure. Mr. Low's assertion as to the separation between religion and conduct in modern life is indisputable, in-disputable, but it merely implies that as a whole the faith of the people of our day is not to be compared com-pared for strength with the faith of their forefathers. fore-fathers. When men's faith becomes thorough and. vivid, once more we shall hear less of their unfairness unfair-ness towards one another and their disregard for the principles of equity in the dealings of life. |