The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-12-05

We once, when lost in the wilderness,
studied our compass; we realized that
only one of it's thirtytwo points directed
us straight to rescue and safety. The
WAY; ponder on the phrase. There is
only one way that sane soul can
choose.
For the heart to Loyalty, gladly, always
choose THE WAY is for one, however he
may be assailed and tried, to know the
inward prophecies of heaven.
2. Second Group of PrOverbial
ExhOrtatiOns, giving Warming
against Intemperance,- 20, 81
90 Be not among wine bibbers;
Among gluttonous eaters of flesh;
81. Forthe drunkard and the glutton shall
come to poverty:
And drowsiness shall clothe man with
rags
Sawyer renders this passage: Be not
1Cith drinkers of tcife, Nth consumers
of their oacn flesh; for dr@nkard and
aoaster shall be made poor. and slamber
shall put on rags. Dread the familiar
ity with vice that allures one to see at
fractions in it's "frightful mien." Come
not under the sorceries of sensualism,
The drinkers, the inordinate feasters,
are consumers of their own flesh.
To think of the drink-habit merely as
q question of economics is to awaken
dread Of the intoxicating cup,-yes,
shrinking from its very sight. To him
who sees a sleeping serpent coiled in
every wine-cup, there can be no beauty
in the wine when it is red. Lock into
the deeps of the alcoholic cup; you will
see there that which will cause you not
only to push it resolutely from your own
lips, but to do your utmost to save
others from the fascinating poison.
Poverty, rags, ones own flesh; these
are the things which the old proverb-
maker saw as ingredients of the intern
perate cup.
And the first cup is the beginning of
intemperance.
3. Third Group OF Proverbial
Sayings. showing the Way to
Noble Life.-ve. 1926.
| % Harken unto thy father that begat
thee,
And despise not thy mother when she
is old.
Your father, to whom you are as bone
of his bone and flesh of his flesh. has
| l,r 20
Your mother, even if the bloom of wo-
manhood has left her face, has this peer
less merit-she loves you as only mo-
| Their can love. She has hitherto made
her life daily sacrifice to you in un-
numbered fragmentary offerings; she
would now with glad devotion give the
entire remnant that remains to her.
3D. Buy the truth and sell it not;
Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and I'M
Outstanding.
What must one pay for wisdom-for
the life which means both perception
o. truth and cleaving to it with indy
Jog love? What must one pay for wis
dom? This is it's price: Self mastery.
temperance, industry. candor, truth
seeking and truth speaking. Is the
truth, which in it's Wilderness can dwell
| only in a clear mind and honest heart.
worth this price?
To sell the truth, for any price what
ever, is to be disfellowshipped by wis
| dom; it is to be fellow with the intern
| perate; it is to be related to the
hypocrites; it is to tend toward beast
| hood.
"a. The father of the righteous shall greatly
rejoice:
And he that begetteth wise child
| shall have joy in him.
! %. Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
| And let her that bare thee rejoice.
| Olly parents can fathom the truth here
declared. A man, in all the years of his
life. can never find holier Joy than that
which is his when he sees his son or his
daughter becoming established in the
righteous life.
A corresponding prolonged agony of
disappointment is in the parental heart
that beholds son or daughter turn
ing to folly.
And the fathers love, 80 joyous when
it's object thrives. so burdeped when its
object is unworthy, finds its diviner
counterpart in the mother heart. No
love below the skies is 80 divine as that
OF the mother heart.
Do we, as children, really care enough
for our shallow summer-day friends,
who would lead US to do evil, to grieve
and PROSTATE the best human love we
shall ever in this world find?