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...truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The mirror is warped and shows us wrong in an utterly distorted form. The journalist's life is one of splendid opportunity, for the press today is sorely in need of men who will deny their pocketbook to maintain their manhood. The true greatness of a journal is not to be measured by its circulation, but by the truth it tells and the influence it wields...
...showed that religion, stripped of its ceremonial and reduced to its essence, the effort of man to get into better relations with the Supreme Power, is a permanent element in human life; and that, furthermore, religion, in this abstract sense, is the one distinguishing characteristic of true manhood...
...both memory and hope therefore unite in us to raise our manhood. Men like Milton and Lincoln, above all Christ Himself, teach us that love and faith can and must survive from the past, must and can be won from the future, by man's earnest struggling away from selfishness, and towards lofty ideals...
Many of the great characters of history have touched us as noble types of manhood; but there is only one man who really fulfills this need of a hero. He is Jesus Christ. The gentle Buddha, the boasted hero of Asia, had no way of leading his followers except by example. He could arouse no feeling or thought in them; for that they had to rely on themselves. Confucius, the great Chinese agnostic, aroused no religious reverence among his people. The Chinese may lead moral lives, and yet remain atheists; they are mere worshippers of ancestors...
...Moxom said that the method which was adopted a few years ago with fear and trembling is based upon the profound conviction of the importance of religion as the basis of character. The board of preachers believe that the voluntary method shows larger faith in forming character and manhood in America than any other...