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The Fundamentals were doing a fine thing for God when they crucified the Son of God. And He told His disciples that the day would come when conscientious men would take out service of God in executing them, and that those who would put them to death would not be bad men, but men who thought that by killing them they were doing God’s will. We see exactly the same great error in our own day. I t is no sufficient protection to a man to believe in one God. There are no more rigid monotheists in the world than Mo hammedans, and there are some who tell us that in India the moral conditions of the Mohammedans are even worse than the moral conditions of the polytheistic Hindus around about them. It is not so much a matter of how many gods you believe in.- I would rather believe in three good gods than in one bad one. One religion is superior to another religion, not because it has less or more gods than that other religion, but because the character of its gods is superior to the char acter of the gods of that other religion. Our Lord under stood completely that a mere faith in God was not going to make a good man, that a man might believe in God and be a murderer, or an adulterer, he might believe in God and put the very apostles of Jesus Christ to death and think that thus he was doing God a great service. CONSC IENT IOUSNESS NOT SU FF IC IEN T It seems to me that it is worth while to stop here for a moment incidentally to note how easy a thing it is for a man to be guilty of conscientious error and crime. It is no defense of a man’s conduct to say that he is conscientiously satis fied with what he did. I suppose that most bad things have been done in all good conscience, and that most of the sins, that we commit today we commit with a perfectly clean con science. There is such a thing as a moral color-blindness that is just as real as a physical color-blindness. I was visiting a little while ago one of our well-known girls’ schools, and had
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