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Show More Humble About Our Opinions in New Kinship At the moment, many people are. deploring "a lack of leadership" in religion, says Lloyd C. Douglas In Cosmopolitan. "In my opinion, the confessed bewilderment of the churches Is a sign of health and progress. The recent use of the soft pedal has made the prophet of more value to the people. They sense nn intellectual kinship with the honest man who admits he Is a bit at a loss to know exactly where we are. "Editors who were used to saying the last word necessary for the adequate ade-quate Instruction of their constituents constitu-ents are writing In phrases tempered by a new shyness. Statesmen, teachers, teach-ers, parents, even half-grown children chil-dren are no longer laying down their beliefs with a bang. We are all becoming be-coming humble about our opinions. This Is the type of kinship we have needed more seriously than any other. oth-er. It is somewhere along this road (hat we may find our peace." |