The Newtown bee., 1892-07-15
THE BEE BUZZ.

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 1t would be comparatively easy t, shun the devil, if we could always tel
 who the devil is. If we, could see hin
 just IS he is,no doubt we should as rul,
 be anxious to renounce and resist hin
 at sight. It is unreasonable to thinl
 that people generally prefer evil and gt l to the bad with deliberatlon. It canno be so in the nature of the case. Sin i. l against nature and we instinctively seel happiness. It cannot be that creature
 bearing the divine image is, as a rule
 more prone to evil than to good. Sucf l d thought is a libel on God.
 The grand trick of the devil is his power of deception. He is artful and treacherous. He wears a mask. It is
 never sin, as such, that he suggests. He
 offers only that which is fair and good
 and greatly to be desired and assures us
 that there can be no harm. He confuses
 distinctions and befogs the principles
 involved and never exposes the inevitab ble
 results. The devil is a liar and his
 business is to seduce by deception. How
 then are we to know what is good and
 what is evil? That is the question of all
 questions in this life. and it is not an
 easy one to answer.
 Some good people will tell you to
 ''simply trust God.' That's all right.
 But what a difference there may be, depending on where you got your ideas of God! Whether in ancient China or darkest Africa or Salt Lake City. Some will assure you that your own conscience will always tell you But the natural conscience simply says, ''Do right and it can of itself do little more than say that. The moral l'eonseiousness can judge of what is right and what is not right mainly according to it's enlightenment. It must be taught. Its value as guide depends upon it's knowledge and experi- enee, right faith and right reason.
 Others will say, we must ''hear the That is good. All things con- sidered perhaps there is no wiser counsel. What safer guide has man on the earth? we may we'll ask. What can safely be put in it's place? What soul of man ever lived that was not wiser and better and happier for hearing and needing the voice of Gods people, even in the darkest days of the worlds history? But how many there are who will at once ask, (Which churchT' And one can't ignore the fact that, touehing many of the practical questions of life, there is great diversity of sentimentand opinion among the people of God.A Mormon conscience is very different from Methodist and d Roman Catholic con- science is different from that of Con- and a Baptist's conscience varies from either of those mentioned.
 After all then, there is q certain person al relation in life in which every one must t'be persuaded in his own mind'' and s'work out his own salvation with fear and trembling" keeping his own conscience void of offence toward God md man." Weought to be saved more by faith, no doubt. But some things we are bound to learn by experience, bitter pr sweet. We ought to stand in more vital relations to the Holy Church Cath olic and be more surely guided by the word of God and the Spirit of Truth.
 Revealed religion is the chief necessity of the human soul and the church is the place in which it is to be found. Yet at east the school of experience must ever .xist in this temporary life. The devil will continue to deceive and men in this state of trial will ever doubt. And thus we may grow by striving and be made perfect through suffering, through faith n the Eternal Son of God. Two simple rules may help us; First, Be true to the fight you have until you are pretty sure of better. Second, So long as you Ire in doubt, don't.
 The question of keeping the Sabbath becomes with many people, about this ime of year, particularly practical ,ne. The hay-making sun shines and the strawberries .ripen as on other days. We believe fully that precept of the Son of Man; 1.-The Sabbath was made 'or man, and not man for the Sabbath" put we do not understand that it follows rom that that man may do as he pleas $ about keeping Sunday. The idea is hat man's highest welfare is involved in lis keeping this seventh day of rest loly unto God. His physical health and aI. ot cfa lyn in Gods day of rest and contemplation is a human necessity and he who violates it's aw does so. at his own loss and peril.
 On grounds of natural right and ac- ,ording to the fundamental principle of mutual and personal responsibility, we zee that no man has any business to empt another to do anything which is to society, or even to himself, who is prime factor of society. A nan has no right to get drunk because drunkenness in the nature of the case [ ein and \ crime. Therefore. the man vhosseiis intoxicating drinks as a bev- ,rsige is also responsible for the evils # this intefnperance. His very business s built upon the sin and shame of his ell0w man, whose welfare, by every tie of nature, he is bound to pro ect. yPhe rumshop Is a atemptation to in and crime and, therefore. the rum- ,eller ls accessory to the evils of drunk ,nAess and tires sponsible for the same to 'ociety.
 Everybo Is finding out that the new ,tafe street, near Main, is the place to buy more goods f6rstlie same money than you can ese White Mountain Ice cream fieezers, fruit ars folly tnublers, etc. Everything in their inc fs new and as good as anybody's for less noneX Don forget the place,