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Show "Time to End Sanctimoniousness Too Long Asso- j dated With Religion By REV. HARRY EMERSON FOSriCK, New York. j ! We must grant that there are plenty of things associated with religion that deserve to be snuffed at They are a weariness, and we would better confess it. t There, for example, is a kind of sanctimoniousness which has com- j monly been associated with religion. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that 1 he might well have become a minister if he had not known a minister I who looked and talked so like an undertaker. What a weariness that is ! 1 Or, again, intelligent people may well yawn at our religious sectarian- J ism Nothing in this world ought so to break down men's provincialism, z unite them in a common bond of brotherhood as religion. Yet, instead, a large part of the influence of organized religion in the Tnited States x tends to rip people apart, embitter their lives with controversy. T W may be sure that any force which so puts a man in a morally J reoifonatle universe with adequate spiritual resources to live by and a J mified personality to live with, will issue in goodness, and that is Lot t :o be snt (Ted at. Relifinn is terrific in its power. When it goes right it is the most J itncficent force in civilization. When it goes wrong it can devustate $ civilization more cruell" than an unharnessed river. In either case J onh vaij-arK wil scuff at it, X |