KEEP STEP-OR PAY THE PRICE

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 October 1920, Page 2

KEEP STEP-OR PAY THE PRICE

When Jesus Christ was crucified there was a thief hung upon each side of Him. Somewhere I remember to have read that this is a good example of what tfie world is always doing, to wit; killing two kinds of persons—those who are ahead of it and those who are behind it in the moral procession.

A man commits a crime, say murder, or theft, or forgery, or burglary. That means be is away behind the moral status of society. So we lock him up or take his life.

Another man is ahead of our common position. We call him a radical, dangerous, loose, a disturber, a crank, or a fool, and probably he is.

The truth then is, if you want to belong you must keep step, morally speaking. Society, your fellowman, does not a«k you be right, but just as right as th«y are. If you are below the level of prevalent morality, you go to the calaboose ; if you are above it, you go to the social cold storage room.

Great political leaders do not follow their personal convictions, but their class convictions. Those who have a reputation for great sanctity are those who have been able to make their own personal feelings gear with the feelings of the religious world of their time and place.—Dr. Frank Crane.