Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-13
A SERMON BY REQUEST.
CONTINUED from last week. ]

When In control of Gods ministers, Solomon
| said, ut is an abomination to Kings to CON-
NIT wickedness for the throne is established
| by righteousness" The reconstruction of So
| ciety must begin from within and work out
ward No man nor set of men can be regen-
| Grated and made new by law. Law was not
made for the righteous, but for law breakers
Law only Furnishes for disobedience and can
not of itself make men better. 1t is only from
the heart, the seat and center of all affections,
that men are made better. There must be
| certain well defined and honestly believed
truths take hold of men to make them better
| Let the impress be made upon every heart
that Christ must be at the center of all human
conduct, both church and state, and society
| will be much better and politics more purified
There are many influences at work with more
| or less recognized power in this age, which it
seems to me, will in the near future, better
| shape the political affairs of the world. In
deed they are fast shaping them now. Men
begin to look at the moral and political af-
| tairs of life as never before, and are today
better prepared for the duties and activities of
life as never before.
The home circle is now preparing the minds
of the young TO take their stand on the side of
right living in all the affairs of life, and the
narrow bounds OF the divisions of life in two
classes-the one for the Christ, and the other
for the world, is fast fading before correct
teaching. Every true home is a dwelling
place for Christ, and this necessarily crowds
ont the ballroom, the card party, the horse
race. the gambling den, the lottery scheme,
the drink habit, the filthy use Of tobacco, the
dive, and the perjury of Officers accepting
brides, and all the other hindrances to the
Christ life, and when this is accomplished, the
true principles of government will be inaugu-
rated and administered by true christians and
then Gods will will be done on earth. In the
family, In the true home, the rising genera
ton is being taught that there is one law for
the wife ard the husband, one law for the man
and the woman and not two. That the same
standard which governs man in the commits
sion of crime is to govern the Yeman, in the
same way for the commission of the same
crime; ana that any attraction of the moral
law by the man, shall have. the same speedy
Judgment as that of the woman. Society as
| it now exists, reveals the unchristian stan
dard of one law for the man and another law
for the woman; but this is fast giving way to
| the true teaching of Christ. WING said to the
fallen woman. 100, sin NO mere" and to the
wicked men, HE that is without sin, let him
cast the first stone" Heretofore society has
been saying to the man, Ego in peace" and to
| the woman. depart We cursed" But, thanks
to the civilization of Christ, this false idea of
morality is fast looslng a foot-hold in society.
| The women of this day must rise up in their
political might and say it is no more right for
a man to drink, swear, spit his filthy tobacco
over the stove, carpet and In the pew, thar
fer woman. The same law should govern
the man and the woman alike. Our orgauiza-
tons as well as individuals are bound by the
law Of Christ to do the will of God, and estab
fish His Kingdom GA earth aud 1t follows
that every labor organization that hopes to ad
vance the cause of humanity, must frst OF al
embody the spirit OF Christs teaching In IL