ABSTRACT
The idea that goodness is sweet and helpless, and that Jesus was meek and lowly, and has to be stood up for, is now, and always has been, a slander. It does not seem to some of us that He would want to be stood up for, and we do not like the way some people call Him meek and lowly. Standing up for the world means standing by men who believe in it, standing by men who make everything they do in business a declaration of their faith in God and their faith in the credit of human nature—men who put up money daily in their advertising, their buying and selling, on the loyalty, common sense, brains, courage, goodness, and righteous indignation of the people. The spirit of fighting evil with good is the last and most modern interpretation of the New Testament, the crowd’s latest cry to its God.
