The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-24

scriptural writers. The fourth commandment
SEx. Xxx: ~ enjoins honor to father and mother.
The code of Moses provided for the punishment
Of an obdurate son. QDeut. xxi. 1921 Here,
The correctness of this view might be shown by
many notable examples. as the son of Ell q Sam.
DANGERs.-It is never well to show how a
good thing may be obtained without at the same
time presenting the dangers TO which one is ex-
every hand are those who Would lead sstray.
Qom.. xvi, 49, They generally promise some
ing to the strongest motive in human nature. the
love OF gain, Come with u.s." they say. Unite
as a result we shah iii our houses with precious
ture of those marauding expeditions in Eastern
countries, by which vast wealth may be quickly
those enterprises in our time in which there is
Constantly Il before : aep men. The et sserihc ah Of r dafgep IS
ness for earthly good through the fattering
speech or associates Is a sacrifice of wisdom.
MISUNDERSTANDING exposed this great danger.
with them, do not be found in Company with
ssSSeeih people; tPsalm j, - Refrain thy foot from
aration is urged many times in scripture psalm
cxix, lOl(, and illustrated in the life OF Jesus.
by the fact that the feet of these men run to
eyil W,serse 49,. and are in the way Of death.
Lord. (Ch. vi, 1S.)ssThe meaning is that they
do not engage in single acts of violence. but
mischief to another. Those who unite with them
must remember that they thereby enter upon a
course which will end in settled wickedness.
This ought to deter most sensible people from.
beginning. There are many who, in hope of i'm
mediate return, might step aside for a time from
the path of rectitude. There are few who will
take that first step If they consider that associa-
lions will be formed and policies adopted which
compel successive steps in a downward way.
RUlN.-Our royal teacher concludes this part
of his lesson by showing the result Of yielding
to the ~enticements of others. They who seek gain
lay wait for their own blood. for their evil de-
vices turn upon their own heads. There rs a
law of retribution that works through the VERY
structure of society, the destruction of the evil
doer. Matt. xvii, 4-5) No man sins against
at his own being. (Esth. vii, 100 He is. in fact.
a suicide. Besides, the eternal justice OF a holy
the storm of wrath which hangs continually
over his head. To go forward in such a way
Is supreme folly; In yain the net is spread in
creatures who live in the air and fly from place
to place have sufficient intelligence to avoid the
snare laid for them. Man, possessed of larger
knowledge. ought in like manner to see the
danger in the evil schemes of men, and, seeing,
escape.
81 MNARY.-we have enjoyed a rare privilege
to-day, TO enter a school whose teacher is the
wisest Of men, a king honored and instructed by
full and happy living, is one of universal and
permanent interest. too little considered. Our
simply an unconscious acknowledgement that
men have not been rightly formed; they have
not been educated and trained in that most Inn
portant of all sciences, how TO live, and must
by constant and laborious process be brought
back and reformed. Why not strike at the heart
of this great matter that is missed or violated
on every hand? Until then our best effort will
be but a track forever Travelled backward We
have only TO adopt the three great rules of Solo
companions-and a new social era Will begin.
and 8 higher order of men Will appear. For then
we come into harmony with the yital!zing IDEAS
operating through the generations.