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Rh Love, there can be no Justice. Hence, love, felt in the heart, and practiced in the life, alone, is true Religion. Some writer on Ethics, says, "All Religion and all Ethics may be summed up in the word Justice." Justice is defined by Webster thus, "Rendering to every one his due—conformity to truth and reality, just treatment, equity." Hence, if the Religion of Justice were taught and practiced, monopolies would cease, and all who have toiled and labored, would have a competency and a home. While those who have produced nothing, or done nothing useful or ennobling, either by hand or brain, could not pile up the thousands or millions which others have produced. 'For thee, for me, for all,' would be the motto of the just; and not a million acres for me, and nothing for those who earn the million acres.

It was in view of a religion without justice that Isaiah uttered these impressive words, "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? …. Bring no more vain oblations. … : It is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. … . Cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless; plead for the widow."

Something more than a religion of words is needed to redeem the world. It must be a religion of noble, Christ-like deeds.