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Child Labour and Child Crimes 335
can be remodelled seriously by those who are
convinced that ideals can really be binding.
People will then not do as they do now, mis-
use the name of the Father, whom Jesus has
taught men to proclaim with their lips, will not
murder one another en masse on the battle-
field, to solve political and economic questions
of supremacy. A society which calls itself
Christian will no longer tolerate capital pun-
ishment, prostitution, stock exchange gamb-
ling, and child slavery. Men will not then
as they do now, learn on their mother’s
breast to love their neighbours as themselves,
and then tread in the footsteps of their fathers,
trampling one another down in the struggle for
bread.
Our reverence for God will then be found in
our capacity to humanise existence by himian-
ising the human race.
The youth of our day have not always suc-
cessfully passed out of the Christian circles
of ideals into another circle. The successful
method would be to face immediately new pur-
poses and aims that are really believed, and
for which men wish to live. But many of our
young generation know of no new purposes
and aims in which they can believe. Hence
comes that spiritual apathy which has mas-
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