Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — Strife for Precedence Has Been Great Tragedy in Most Big Moral Campaigns [ARTICLE]

Strife for Precedence Has Been Great Tragedy in Most Big Moral Campaigns

By REV- CHARLES F. AKED

There are too many of us trying to go through the world, on a big bluff. Ignorance is not always discreditable, but to pretend knowledge you do not have is always so. If you think yourself so very wise, I pray you become the fool —that you may become wise. This is what the Apostle Paul told the Corinthians, and it is just as good advice toddy. This strife for precedence and a place in the world has' been the tragedy of the Christian church and of most of our great moral campaigns. Most of us would rather have a thing not succeed than succeed through one other than ourselves. Don’t seem to be; something; be something. I’m pleading for a little healthy recklessness. You have been cautious too long. Some men and women devote all their lives to the fine art of getting on the winning side at the moment of victojy. E