The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-04-23
7uE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT.

There are G0EeS EulSS VI COhOuSAs |
The first, we will call, the Silver |
Rule. 1t reads as follows: Let |
men do unto you whatsoever you
would, and you do as you please"
This is pre-eminently the rule in
Anarica. where the first and su-
nreme question is, how much will it
nav? Where it is instilled into the
Winds of our children from the time
thew begin to understand until nine
tv-nine per cent of the boys and
girls in making the all important
choice of an occupation, pro-
fession, or life work are animated,
controlled and guided not by such
questions. as, How much can | add to
the sum total of the worlds good
ness? Can / thus make the world
better? In what way can l lift hu-
manity nearer to God? Will this be
fulfilling the purpose for which my
Heavenly Father placed me here?
Rut instead it is: How much money
is there IN it? How much does it
pay?
The measure of love expressed by
the Silver Rule is Selfishness. The
application CT this rule has
brought human society into and is
keeping it, in an abnormal or dis
eased condition. The symptoms of
this malady are so pronounced that
there is no possibility of mistake
in making a diagnosis.
The name of this loathsome dis
ease is a small word, which such
writer's as McCauley and Prescott
seem not to have known was in the
vocabulary of the English language
1t is Sin.
The second standard is denomina-
ted 1.-THE Golden Rule, which reads
thus: Whatsoever ye would that
men should do unto you do ye even
so unto them.''
This is not, as many supposes, the
epitome of the Christian religion,
but marks the highest level of jude
ism.
Love, as embodied in the Golden
Rule, is measured by justice. 1T is
a working principle for the organiza-
ton and government of a normal
society," But there is not to be
found a normal society on earth,
while on the other hand we see
everywhere manifold proofs of its
abnormal condition.
m The Golden Rule is the foundation
stone of fraternal orders. and in
most of them it's practical workings
are exemplified.
Tie third principle we designate
The Diamond Rule. Jesus of Naza-
reth gave expression to it in tie
words of the new commandment:
Love one another as l have loved
you.''
This eleventh commandment is the
quintessence of practical Christiani
ty, and there is no other kind.
Sacrifice is the measure of Love as
set forth in the Diamond Rule. Fol
Christianity is pre-eminently a RENE
dial system. Sin was caused by
selfshness, i. e., man loving him
self more than others; the remedy
is sacrifice, i. e., man loving Others
more than himself.
There are two schools of Thera
peutics: Homeopathy and Allopa
thy.
"a The motto of the one is: Like
cures like" The disciples of Han
nemann prescribe minute doses O
medicine, which would produce il
:. health symptoms similar to those
manifested in the disease.
The other seeks to cure by produc
ing a condition incompatible will
the disease.
In Spiritual Therapeutics we haN'
the same two schools. When society
or an individual becomes disease
by the application of the Silve
:. Rule, Satan, the original Homeopa
thic physician and founder of The
Homeopathic School of Spiritua
Therapeutics, prescribes another ap
plication of the same rule, i. e. 81
will care sin. But he always pre-
scribes Allopathic doses. The con
sequence is that every application
the remedy causes the patient t'
grow worse.
Jesns Christ, the Son of the Living
God, the great physician and found
er of the Allopathic School of Spir
itual Therapeutics, prescribes th'
Gospel, (which is the power of Coz
unto Salvation," and a medicin'
which if taken according to direc
! tions will never fail to produce