The sinfulness of silence and inaction is more than academic; it is sharply practical and may impinge upon the soul of any one of us at anytime. Let a moral situation shape itself so that righteousness demands speech and action, and theory becomes practical fact instantly. We have but to keep still and sit tight to become guilty of real sin. The world situation today is such that sin by silence may be more widespread than at any other time in the history of the world. For the first time in human
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