The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-04
THE WHOLE GOSPEL.


1t Provides Healing for Both the Soul and
the BOdy-To Conquer Evil We Must
Replace IT. With Something Good.
A remark worthy Of all attention Is
made by the Am erican when 1t says:
1--WE need to place on our banners the
saying Of Comte. Nothing is destroyed
until it is replaced II we are to put
an end to the saloon power As Christ
has warned us. there is no real gain
for moral and social reforms in the
creation Of vacuum-in emptying,
sweeping and garnishing the house.
and leaving It empty"
. This principle is capable Of wide ap-
plication and should be increasingly
borne in mind by those who essay to
drive out the evils existing in any in
dividual life or in the community at
large. Most evils are the result Of
warped tastes and faculties. The
young man who leaves behind him the
immediate influences of moral and
possibly Christian home in some rustic
settlement in order to find work in
great city. u often led astray, from right
paths by the pervArsion 81 q natural
and proper taste for company. The
meetings and greetings Of the first
week may decide his lifelong destiny
Our drinking saloons are frequented
by many who 60 there for sociability's
sake. Mans sociable nature is not to
be condemned. It cries out for food,
and when this is denied in the home
life it is sought elsewhere. Many Of
our criminals became such, not en-
tirely from natural propensity to evil,
but because their talents and faculties
had not been directed into proper
channels. They were brought up
amid unhappy and unhealthy sur
roundings. We may not condone
with crime on this account. nor is it to
be forgotten that as pond lilies spring
from foul ooze, 80 many beautiful
lives have sprung up from surround
ings at once lowly and unholy. But
in the fact that such lives excite sur
prise and comment is proof that they
are unusual.
1t would be easy to continue our line
of thought further and to show how sin
of every kind may proceed from prop
err tastes improperly INDUCED, pervert-
ed, therefore. and so made ministers Of
evil instead Of good. A healthy curl
osity on the part of our first parents
might have led to proper and profit
able study Of all the proofs Of Gods
care and wisdom by which they were
surrounded. Perverted curiosity
wrought awful havoc. So runs the
world to-day. And they who would
extirpate evil must bear the facts in
mind if they would be successful. HUI
man activities are ever bent on good
design or bad. They are the wises
philanthropists who, recognizing the
fact. seek to turn natural propensities
in right directions. OF course. this is
no new teaching. The benevOlence
that would replace the rum-saloon
with the coffee-house admits the essen
tial truth presented. 1t is evidently
admitted by many Of our Young Mems
Christian Associations which. not for
getting the Gospel aim of their work,
have remembered that man has phys
ical frame that can not be ignored
with IMMUNITY. We would deplore the
day in which any thing short Of the
Gospel OF our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ were regarded as the remedy
for human woe or the cure OF human
wickedness. The highest philanthropy
| is that which seeks to lead men into
the service Of God that they may find
in it the elements Of true happiness so
entirely lacking in the service OF sin
and self. But in this We are vertically
carrying out the principle implied in
the words: ITO replace is to con-
quer." Be the love Of the world in
any heart replaced by the love Of God,
and that heart has conquered the
world. Be the love Of sin replaced by
the love Of holiness, and sin Is in sub.
lection. A homely adsge tells US thai
the basket filed with chips can not be
filed with cherries. II is equally tru,
that the basket filled with cherries
has no room for chips. aud II We wo Id