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Show As the First Move, People Must Be Helped Back - to the Power of Faith By A. H. DESLOGES, Quebec Director of Asylums. As the first move, people must be helped back to that power of faith, that capacity fo believing in their own power for good and their neighbors' neigh-bors' will for good, as well as in the ability of providence, God, the laws of nature, or whatever name they choose to employ, to run the universe satisfactorily without any human intervention or guidance. When we get the ton commandments back in their place as the guiding guid-ing star of respectable men and women, and the criminal code back where it belongs as the danger signal for the evil-minded minority, we shall be well on the way to that mental repose which will allow us to recover our nervous health and stem the tide which is leading mankind to universal insanity. . , t I am not preaching any religion in saying that. The ten commandments command-ments are the basis of the Jewish, Buddhist and Mohammedan religions ss well as the, various sects of the Christian faith. "We want genuine religion, not fakirisms and faddisms. We need sincerity in religion, and we need belief in the goodness of things, of nature, -of destiny, of our neighbors and ourselves, and unless we can get these things there is no ' hope for the stopping of the headlong downward rush. |
