Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1919 — Idealism [ARTICLE]

Idealism

We cannot get away'from idealism any more than we can from character, nor from an idealism based on knowledge. The problem will be as it always has been, one of making it helpful and fruitful, and enlisting it in the service of man. It cannot serve applied by them. The greatest ideal ever revealed to the world was the ideal of service. There could have been none greater. Christian people certainly will not deny this, for it is one of the basic truths of their religion. Idealism, service and obedience, therefore, all go together, and are all necessary elements of. a symmetrical character. They will not lose their importance or value. We cannot think of men living together in a civilized society without them. For, lacking them, men tyould not be men, and society would not be civilized. —Boston Globe.