Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-28
Church Column.

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5lst, is 1.-The Heavenly Record, 8
Luke 1920; Rev. 5. I-5 Leader Helen
BROKER.
II i reported Of the people on some
OF the worlds small islands. than
they hardly know what sin IS. The
commandments. or al least those Of.
the ten commandments which seek to
govern the relations between man
and man, are we'll KEEP There il no
murder, licieDiiousness or tn IT. no
false witness aud no coseting. Or If
stray case of these sins Is found. il
Is 50 quickly resented aud frowned
upon by the whole community that i'll
Is long time before anyone else ,lares
venture to commit the same sin.
Why is it that sm I'LL, isolated
communities there is often much less
crime than among the same number
OF people living in great citiese The
reason seems plain In the small, ii
community every one feels hat he IS
making for himself a record in the
community, every one knows every
one else and naturally every one cares
what all the rest are thinking Of him.
1t is altogether d fferent with the
man who lives in big city, who can
make every one he meets think i'll of
OF him, and then escape from their
disapproyal by merely changing his
residence or moving 10 another town
The young man who leaves home nd
home associations, and goes to live in
city where no one knows him, is
very apt TO feel that it doesn't matter
so much what he does He has lost
the sense of responsibility which he
felt when he knew that the eyes Of the
whole community in which he had
been brought up, were upon him. At
home people thought highly of him,
and he valued their good opinion.
In the city no one knows him orcares
whether he acts rightly or wrongly;
at least that is the impression that he
receives. He has no reputation to
keep, and is not afraid of making a
bad reputation because he imagines
that no one who knows him will know
what he does.
The lesson is plain; we all need to
feel that We are being watched and
that we all have reputation to make
and keep. If we lose that idea, we
lose one OF our best moral safeguards.
We should always do right because it
is right, but when temptations come
we need all the help we can get.
When say we need to feel that we
are being watched, only tell a small
part OF the truth. Suppose we are
being watched by people whose ideals
of righteousness are very incomplete
and distorted, then certainly, if we
are guided in our actions by what
they will think of us. our actions will
not at all be. what God would have
them be.
What we really need is to feel we
are being watched by God. He alone
has the perfect Ideals of life, and His
ideals are the only ones which we
have right to accept as the rule of
our actions He Judges us by per-
feet standard, and he judges fairly,
because lie sees our motives and is not
deceived either by the apparent wrong
ness of our actions.
God has provided for this need of
feeling that we are not going through
the world without being watched.
He has done so by telling us that his
eyes are constantly upon us, and that
he knows so much about us that even
| the hairs of our head are numbered,
that strict account is kept of all that
we do and that our reward hereafter
shall be according to our works here
whether they are good or evil.
We all try more or less to keep our
selves free from deeds which men will
dislike in us, but we should train our
selves to shun still more those
thoughts which God abhors. How
many of us keep constantly before
our minds this record that is kept in
Heaven.
We must take Christ as orr pattern
and strive to follow Him. So only
can we become good to the care of
our being and obtain good heavenly
record
The following officers were elected
by the Christian Endeayor society:
President, Stella Baldwin; Vice Presi-
dent, Ralph Kinney; Recording Sec,
Rose Alcorn; Treas, Blanche Roth
schild; Corresponding and Mission
Secretary, Dora Watkins; Superin-
tendent of Junior Work, Clara Bieg.
The ladies Aid society will meet on
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