Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Self Sacrifice the Source of All Lasting [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Self Sacrifice the Source of All Lasting

By Rev. Dr. W. S. RAINSFORD,

Eminent Divine

WE have had it dinned into bur ears by essayists, learned professors and the clergy that our age was given over to materialism and that the modern man’s god, whether he carried a

dinner’ pail or hired a French c o'o k. was his bcllv. WE KNOW BETTER NOW. IT IS BEFORE ALL PRECEDING AGES AN IDEALISTIC AGE. Jes u sssa d, “Man cannot dive by bread alone,” and because this is mysteriously.

eternally true, and only because it is true, the nations are steadily trooping forth today, old men and boys, nobles and common born, rich men forsaking their riches and poor men braving deeper poverty. And what for ? Just to give the best they have to the best they know. SELF SACRIFICE MAY BE AND SOMETIMES HAS BEEN MISDIRECTED. IF SO IT WILL FAIL OF ITS IMMEDIATE PURPOSE, BUT IT IS THE ROOT AND SOURCE OF ALL LASTING RELIGION.

Rev. Dr. W. S. RAINSFORD.