Counsel Amid Political Discord
By Editor
Our readers do not need to be told the news of the recent Republican Convention in Chicago, nor the split of the party which there took place. It is a logical ending of the exceptionally mud-slinging campaign which has been conducted for months. At the writing of this note the Democratic National Convention is in session in Baltimore, and more or less of the same mob spirit is manifest in that. It is really a pitiable thing that men—strong men, leading men—can not get together and decently listen to what men may have to say, without practically mobbing them, or at the very least, drowning them out with discordant cries of every sort, simply and solely because the speaker may be saying something with which the noise makers are not agreed. If there ever was a time when men needed to be cool, calm, and reasoning, that time is now. In religion, as well as in politics, men need to move wisely and carefully, and counsel, above all else, with the Arbiter of all destinies, the One whose audience-chamber is always open to His children.