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Show Character and Faith in Truth and Goodness Far Above Material Things By DR. ERNEST WRAY ONEAL, Methodist, Chicago. Certain phases of modern life indicate an age of veneer and hypocrisy. hypoc-risy. Man's eyes are charmed today with gilding rather than pure gold. Veneer is as popular as the genuine article; not character, but codfish aristocracy is the popular thing. Instead of statesmen in politics we have hired assassins, ward heelers and grafters, in business we have watered stocks, cooked accounts, salted mines and sham everywhere. Even in religion there are too many fakes in these days. Just to look like a Christian seems to answer the purpose. . Character, a willingness to serve and live for the good of others, and a steadfast faith in truth and goodness, are better than all the splendor of clothes and the desire for material wealth. |