Life — December 13, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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| eee lens lo ously, nd for wares, hat he a play | fad be irchill’s +, Lord irchill” ya sort thrown appre} not ex Lond) put int at hi THe speech against religion made by Bernard Shaw, which recently created such a sensa- tion in London, was too long for us to reproduce in whole, but we give here extracts taken from the New York Times: “Tf the great congregation of cowards called the human race were to be got to disregard their own sfety and interest, they must be made religious. A religious‘man was not one who belonged to the Church of England or who did not, and the en- thusiasm of men who did not belong to that Church seemed much greater than that of men who did. Nor was he a man with a special creed. A religious man was one who had sure knowledge that he was here, not to fulfill some narrow pur- pose, but as an instrument of the force which created the world and probably the universe. | Religion made a man courageous, and if he was. not intelligent it made him extremely dangerous. | In the absence of religion a coarse man had the | most courage, but with religion the most fragile and sensitive became enormously courageous.” “There was no established religion on carth to-day in which an intelligent, educated man treat body of legend which every religion around itself might be as true as ‘Ham- was true, but to tell children that the stories of Jonah and Noah’s ark were literally true was to lie; to say that they were religious truth was an abominable lic, and to say that their | salvation depended on their belief in it was a damnable lic.” “If Christ had diced in a country house, worth | five thousand a year, everything He said would be just as true as if He had been crucified.” “The main truth that required to be taught was the powerlessness of God. If we conceived God asa moral force we must admit that apart from us He was powerless,” “Millions revolted against religion when con- fronted with the question, ‘If God i: ful, why is the world such a horrible was no use saying God could not be understood. \ man in the dock would not be excused because he said he had somé higher purpose that others | could not understand.” “Another thing to remember about God was. that He made mistakes. Only after many trials | | produced a man who, though only a t, was at his best rather a wonderful | E hero of a story which has been told of Archbishop Ireland is really that witty churchman Bishop Talbot, ‘‘the Cowboy Bish- op,” whose powers of repartee and whose churehly devotion made him famous among those people of whom he has so delightfully writen in his reminiscent volume, ‘“ My People of the Plains.” “Where in h— have I seen you?” demanded a magh-looking man, meeting Bishop Talbot one evening in the crowded single strect of a Mining town. 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