Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — Changes in Religious Effort. [ARTICLE]

Changes in Religious Effort.

The real ground, therefore, of our superiority to our ancestors is not so much that they were all selfish, while only a few of us are, or even that they lacked zeal for human welfare, as that their altruism was misdirected, first to loving individuals rather than the mass, and then to laboring for their salvation from imaginary dangers in the next world, rather than from real trouble in this. We have, learned, first, to confine our efforts to this world, and, second, to work at wholesale rather than retail. —Ernest C. Richardson. in the Atlantic.