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says Dr Lingle, are few. How ever. we should not sit back and suppose that all the hypocrites were Bible characters. Still less should any one imagine that to day all the hypocrites are in the church People who are at least temporary hypocrites can be found all around us. Perhaps in us! Family Hypocrites We don't have to go to church to be hypocrites We can practice right at home, and some of us do all too well at it The word originally meant simply "actor." We are all hypocrites when we act better than we know we are: or when our preachments fly at a higher level than our practice When Father gives the children a lecture on honesty, the very day when he sells a piece of real estate for more than he knows it is worth, when he spanks the children for losing their tempers— but doesn't spank them till he has lost his own: when Mother tells the children at fable to be patient, though she wouldn't wait in line at the post office but squeezed in out of turn; or when she greets the vi.-iting Mrs. Jones like a long-lost sister, only to say before the visitor gets in to her car. that she hopes that bore never comes again; Father and Mother are being play-actors. Even the children may be play acting when they take their par ents' lectures or discipline as if they heard every word and meant to do better next time, when all the while they are thinking about something else; and they may be terrible little hypocrites about school—how mean the teacher is. and how all the children pick on me. and so on. Business Hypocrites Dwight L. Moody admitted the church harbors a good many hypo crites, but—he said - there are a lot more outside the church. There are indeed. Take business for in stance. Listening to the high priests of big business in Ameri ca, reading the advertisements, the man from Mars might take it seriously and believe that the main object of business is serv ice The jolly fellowship at lunch eon clubs might be taken in the same way; how can these people be deadly rivals? The answer is, they aren't. The club rules allow admittance of only one person from each “classification." But in each classification the man may be a ruthless rival of other men in the same line not in this club. And as for service, it is quite true this is an aim of busi ness, but the aim is making mon ey. Even men in “professions" which have a long and honorable record of service, may be there for the simple reason that there is more money in it than in anything else they would find con genial. When a town finds itself year after without a resident doc tor or minister simply because it is a town of poor people, the citi zens are a little dubious about the "Service" professions. Hypocrites in Church Which brings up the kind of hypo crites who drew Jesus' fire—the hypocrites in church. Aren't we all hypocrites when we tip our heads back and sing. "Jesus, 1 my cross have taken, all to leave and follow thee”—when we decline even the small oppor tunities for service the church offers us'.’ Isn't a minister a hypo crite when he exhorts his people to virtues which in his position are very easy but which he would rind pretty hard if he were in their place? (Temperance, for in stance.) Isn't the church member a hypocrite who hastens to dust off the Bible when she sees the minister coming up the front walk? Isn't the churchman a hypocrite who is extra careful of his language around the preacher? And aren't we all hypocrites when we pray, "Thy Kingdom come.” — and back the prayer up with one thin quarter"’ < Biased on outlines copyrighted bv the Division of Christian Education. Na tional C ouncil of th* Churches of Christ In the I $ A Released by Community Pres.s Service > SMALL BUSINESS AID The Senate has approved and sent to the White House an emergency bill increasing the loan authority of the Small Business Administraton from the present $150 million to $250 million, and also extends the life of the igescy Ircx Jx.s JO to July JO.