Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — America Afflicted With Good Naturedness. [ARTICLE]

America Afflicted With Good Naturedness.

By the Kev. HUGH BIRCKHEAD.

Rector of St. George's Episcopal Church.

New York City.

CHERE is one great difficulty in the way of America. It is GOOD NATURE. • It is the good natnred man that OPPOSES PROGRESS. It is he who DOESN’T CARE how he votes or. how he makes money or how he spends it. The good natnred man is chiefly RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WEAKNESSES IN OUR GOVERNMENT, for our slack morals, for the laxity of religious life, and he is gradually bringing into our life a theology that makes God a good natnred being.