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Show Cannot Keep One Conscience for Home and Another for Public Life By REV. G. A. STUDDERT KENNEDY, "Woodbine Willie." If you are going to have free speech, you must have it with all it? dangers and responsibilities. The parson must think and pray that he may be able to discern the signs of his time and understand that the will of God is for man, and he must blaze it out as he sees it. Once he has done that, the responsibility rests with those who listen : they must choose ' whether they will hear or whether they will forbear. But you caunot have it both ways. You cannot blame the church when the world g-es wrong, and curse it when it tries to lead the world right. If moral principles have nothing to do with politics, then wars must continue at home and abroad, with all their waste and bitter wrong. If moral principles are to be the basis of politics, then you cannot keep religion out. You cannot split life up into departments and keep one conscience for home and another an-other for public life. Christian conscience runs the whole way pr it doe not run at all |