Show the W religion V decint H liter lias told catl at as all er cai aliz alons I 1 ave p assed aw ay so tl e present of 1 drope and of america including its code 0 mor als its 1 aws ai d arts must lass ariy also 11 e i resent age is a little fond of this sort of speculation e are told that the stored up heit of the earth in the of its coil beds must in a certain year be exhausted and that the revolutions of tt e solar system roust culminate at lenetti in a of destruction or fc icci an are not extremely useful it is however unsettling to some mn ds to learn that modern civilization like the irmy of may be buried as deep as it a hundred feet of the ba ahre is one fact th it such dreamers seem to lose sight of civilization is generally no more than tl e concomitant of some ri ligion or 0 1 er 1 arsian clel lizi tion gave wiy to alie greek idt t be tie greeks were laiglon and lorils to I 1 ersia dreece in her dec idenie way to kerne for the same reason modern civilization succeeded through of a church whose teachings are the teachings of jesus christ and whose theology is the pur est and most exalted the world has ever seen before the scenes are again sl gifted and the stage Is cleared a new religion must be ready for Is entrance A religion superior to christianity no J thiera aap gnosticism cism deism and Theos hsuch cults are incompatible walh a tion popular w widespread ide spread and practical it ey are destructive of the idealism of art and of the hope without which life and effort are modern cial libation liza tion may ripen widen and be puri hed As long as it Is the expression of the t iguest religious fidei of the world it will continue to exist and to develop and thia must be forever the church man |