LECTURE IV
THE JOY OF THE MINORITY
There are two forms of disloyalty. One
is flinching, the other is compromise.
Of course, the compromiser will never
allow that he is disloyal. He is a practical man
who realizes that theories and ideals have to be
adapted to a practical world, and he gives up a
part, and as unimportant a part as possible, in
order that he may gain the rest. He feels himself
quite capable of judging how much to give
up and what part may rightly be given up. He
will simply abate the unreason of a God who demands
all righteousness, and to Whom the whole
truth is truth. Let us set up against such men
the uncompromising principle of the duty of non-compromise.
It is a principle from which the
wisest and best of men are sometimes won away
in the supposed interest of the great ends which
they seek, and for which they feel that they may
rightly sacrifice subordinate issues. There is
what some regard as a striking incident of this
character in the life of that uncompromising
man, Saint Paul. It is an exciting and instruct-
