The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-08-13
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Written expressly for the GLOBE REPUBLICAN
LIES MORAL FAILURES are paved
with splendid but broken resolutions.
TO SUCCEED in what is right requires
one continual battle. Evil NAV come
unsought. but for the good we must
strive.
WE MUST STRIVE for the good because
it is a positive blessing to possess it; and
that for which we do not strive is seldom
appreciated. Besides if good were pos
se>sed without effort we should give it
up AT the first temptation. for we should
prize it so little that we would make no
effort 70 retain its possession.
WHY. THEN is sin in the world: First
because of liSObedience to law. both
natural and moral. Without diSobedi-
ence to law there could be no sin. With
out free will there nevercOuld have been
disObedience, for he only can disobey
who has the power of contrary choice.
Second. because the highest develop
ment in free being requires the free :
dom of the will. TO develop in man the
highest moral character he must pos
sess the power to accept or refuse what
comes before him. TO have power to
choose the good only would make man a
machine: to have power to choose the
evil only would make him fiend. So
to produce the best moral results man
must be able to choose between the good
and the bad. the true and the false.
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HENCE. all moral life becomes a moral
battle. He who is led by sin and passion
becomes Il fiend incarnate. He who is
led by his surroundings. be they either
good or bad. becomes a putty man. lie
alone. who makes persistent fight for
the right can hope TO be man. His
ideal of the right and true must not be
low and selfish. else no great attainment
can be achieved. But there must be
lofty purpose, IL noble aim, pure mo-
tive and then be assured the effort will
be well repaid in the harvest of i strong,
vigorous, manly character. Hence sin is
in the world that by determined OPPOSE
ton to it. man may be developed to the
best degree of moral force and character.
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WHY Is 1T. if prohibition don't pro-
hibit, that lot of fellows are all the
time crying that prohibition is driving
people away from the country: If it
don't prohibit. and whiskey and beer
are what the emigrant wants, it seems
reasonable that there would be grand
rush into the prohibition states. Why is
it. that every distiller, brewer. schooner.
jointer is mad at prohibition, and fights
it day and night. if it don't prohibit, if
more whiskey is drank than under high
license? Don't you see, under prohibi-
ton he can sell more and pay no license:
How strange it is he wants to pay Ii
cense and cant sell so much as under
prohibition. Do you see: And do you
see this other strange freak: \ man
says he is temperance man. and would
''annihilate the whiskey traffic if he
could" but he says ''prOhibitiOn don't
prohibit" and the whiskey fellows APP
plaud. On which side is that annihil-
ator: Can you tell? The temperance
CD man that is applauded by the whis-
keyite is not a very dangerous foe to the
saloon. If prohibition don't prohibit
why do whiskey men prefer high license?
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''CHRISTIANITY is IA religion of for
giveness." No other religion teaches
this doctrine as a fundamental principle.
The more difficult it is for sinful man to
comprehend the doctrine, the stronger
the proof that it is beyond mans ability
to have devised it. The doctrine is that
we are enjoined by scripture to forgive
those who offend us and trespass against
us, even to the extent of fOrgiving our
enemies. If there is any one thing that
the unrenewed heart of man does per-
sistently revolt against it is that of for
giving an enemy. one who has purposely
injured us.
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''FOR IF YE forgive men their tres
passes. your Heavenly Father will also
forgive YOU" The example was set by
the Savior himself. when on the cross he |
prayed. "Father. forgive them. they
know not what they do This doctrine.
as taught by the Bible is one of its inter-
nal evidences. and strong one. Of the |
divine origin of the scriptures. 1t is i'm
possible for man to have devised the doc
trine. for it is opposed to all of his in
stincts and notions. He would rather |
visit summary vengeance upon the one
who offends or harms him. than to think |
about forgiving him. And one of the
hardest lessons for the christian to learn