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The Gospel Makes Decency Possible

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 10.

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The Gospel Makes Decency Possible

By James Russell Lowell

WHEN the keen scrutiny of skeptics has found a place on this planet ten miles square where a decent man can live in decency, comfort, and security, supporting and educating his children unspoiled and unpolluted; a place where age is reverenced, womanhood honored, and human life held in due regard,— when skeptics can find such a place, ten miles square, on this globe, where the gospel of Christ has not gone and cleared the way and laid the foundations and made decency and security possible, it will then be in order for the skeptical literati to move thither and ventilate their views.— James Russell Lowell.