RELIGION DEEPER THAN SOCIAL REFORM.
The Religion of Brotherhood must go deepr than social reform or even than social reconstruction. In the immortal words of Edith Cavell, "Patriotism ia not enough." The public good implies good at the heart of things. Yet, as Emerson and the Avar reminds us, "Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity." But "the day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward-eye opens to the unity in things, to the omnipresence of law — sees that what is must bo, and ought to be, or is the best." Such a faith is perhaps harder at the present moment than at any time in human history, yet it is not more necessary as an academic postulate of the and the philosopher than as the working faith of tho social reformer.
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1919, Page 1
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