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that the way to make people good is to make them happy, or create con ditions so they can be happy. ' a. Too many of the teachers of humanity talk down to the people. Theiru mental attitude is that of a superior being who sits on some eminence while the people are down on the ground. And most people listen and"' pass on. .. I think people like to go to a baseball game because they can enjoy" themselves without being preached at, and can enjoy the physical and'; mental excellence of superior athletes. And yet there is a practical sermon in a baseball game. " Public sentiment has forced the evolution of the rules of baseball grad- . ually toward the Golden Rule. People no longer enjoy seeing one base-Q ball player spike another. They are getting tired of players chewing the rag with an umpire. ' The people know the rules and want the players to play according to" the rules. Where they once cheered a successful dirty trick of a player on the home team, there is a growing demand for fair play; and those who hoot the umpire unless he gives the home team all the breaks on close; plays are growing fewer every day. I can remember when nobody thought of applauding a good play by , a player on the visiting nine; now It is common. Did it ever occur to you that the rules of baseball, and the game as . now played, are a sermon on the organization of human society? Each player has his part to play. The catcher his, the pitcher his, and each of the basemen and fielders his; and by each minding his own busi- ness that is, playing HIS part we get the team work that makes a great baseball club. If all the players were pitchers, there would be no baseball club; and there would be a row over who should pitch, and who should play the other positions. Each fellow would want to decide for himself what position he would play. There would be war no team work, no harmony. r I believe people would enjoy their politics more if politics were as far advanced as baseball. But politics is as disgraceful now as baseball was-, before it got out of the fighting stage. That's because the political game hasn't developed rules that insure1 fair play. 7 I think we are learning our politics gradually just as we have learned our baseball; and that we are becoming less partisan and more in favor pf.e fair play. But we are far behind the national game in our politics. Wei won't give the good -players in the other party credit when they play a good game. We want them, to strike out every time they come to bat. I think a clever preacher could preach wonderfully interesting andt illuminating sermon by illustrating Christian philosophy with things peo-j pie could understand. ' i Paul used illustrations that people could understand. In his first epis-: tie to the Corinthians, twelfth chapter, he used" the human-body to teach 3 harmony and order. The entire chapter is well worth reading, but I will quote only enough of it to illustrate the point Paul said: .t "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the mem Bers of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ " For in one 3 Spirit were we all baptised into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether3 we be bond or free, and have all been made to drink of one Spirit "For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot .shall sbk