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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE 4b I B1 DJt JAMES l VAN'CE It Is netting lo be n hard world for bigots. There was a time when they Owned the enrth. but their lease has rim out. It Is out of clnto to '".runt up a solemn, lengthened srnan, And damn a parties but yourown'l I Sectarianism Is discredited. Men decline to worship a sectarian God nowadays, and they show piety as well jas sens'- In the refusal. The i-hureh that Insists on a sectarian program. !thnt magnifies the points that separate separ-ate it from tbs reel ol Chrlsteftdomi that wants lu be V-t alor. is likely i to be lei alone. It will find solitude, and its solitude will approach the 'loneliness f the grave. Tob-rance 1h not uniformity. It i-i not whittling belief down to n. t to nothing. It Is not handling religion with the pig metal process and run-, run-, n i ni? out all creeds In the same mold. God never makes two trees exactlv alike. Why should Hf want belief I flattened out until It is featureless .' AN'lint is needed Is ncii that peojil should believe less, thai they may believe be-lieve alike. If one's convic tions are J to have driving power, they must be positive, and the must bt hold tenaciously ten-aciously it is positions, not negations that the world nc 'ls. But all this condsts with- tolerance. Have men never traveled lo a com- mon destination b different route? I surely no finite intelligence Is prepared pre-pared to claim that he has a monop.ljt of truih I have a right to m belief-and belief-and mj neighbor has a riKht to his, ! Wi- may r00Ognl and respect each other's sincerity without embracing' -.o-h other's creed. We can strike' hands and toil io achieve a common I task without surrendering our honest 1 difference. Tb- disciplines told Jesus that thevi found a man casting out devil In His I name, hut that because hi followed nol with them, they forbade him. I Christ said Forbade him not." There I erf too many devils to be cast out for good people tO divide. Get together! |