The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-06-15
BY REV. J. U. BROWN.


ship, love anu So mpathy which we,
seek and enjoy outside the family.
3--Recreation. Those that seek
relief from the WEAKNESS of labor
and study by amusement, sport or
play.
4-Political. Those that would
establish order, protection, and au-
thority.
5--Aeslhetic. Those that grow
ont of the instinct Of beauty and
the love of beautiful objects, in ma
ture aud art.
6--Moral. Those that grow out
of our ideas of right and justice.
7--Religlous. Those that arise
from the thought of the spiritual
element III our nature and befief of
a Divine Being and our reverence
for Him.
8-lntellectual. The impulses
that urge us toward knowledge and
culture.
No one of these has the right to
claim all the time, talent and energy
OF any person, but each one of them
has claim to some part of the time,
talent, interest and energy of every
person. The person who is wise
enough to give each one of them
what it justly claims is a wise and
useful person indeed, and is surely
serving his generation according to
the will of God. This grand life,
social but not dissipated, l urge you
to study, understand aud 1--we.
CITIZNESHIP,
In dlscharging the duties belong
ing TO US as citizens there is oppor-
tunitY for the most valuable service
to our generation. The establish
ment and growth of free government
resting upon the intelligent will of
all the citizens brings this duty to
every citizen. No man, especially
an educated man, can escape the OBJ
legation of doing all that a loyal
citizen can do for the welfare of his
country. 1t is the duty of such a
man to secure the best possible un-
derstanding of all public matters,
and to help educate the men of his
own day III. real knowledge of
what is really taking rlace among
them. In doing this IT is right for
him to be a party man as well as a
patriot. For party is only acom-
bination of those whose convictions
and purposes agree. AS long as u
party in its avowed purpose and
real spirit is true to the principles
of its founders, and the purposes of
its organization, and the conscien-
tious convictions of its living mem
bers, It's members can be loyal to it
without being disloyal to their
country or to their own reason and
conscience. Indeed, loyalty to snch
a party is the highest loyalty to
ones country and to his own spirit.
But when a party no longer repre-
serits the ideas and convictions Of
its founders and no longer adarts
itself to the needs of the people,
when it becomes a mere instrument
in furthering the selfish interests of
selfish adhelents, it forfeits Its claim
to the unqnstioning loyalty of It's
intelligent and conscientious mem
bers. For no party has the right 10
control the vote or the voice or the
silence Of any man whose reason and
conscience and affection 1t can not
control by the wisdom of Its policy
and the righteousness of his acts.
The political duty of every citizen
is to MAINTAIN the truth, and the
same principles of righteousness and
honor must he applied In public
matters as, veal are ready to ad.
nit, are to be applied IN personal
matters.
Our political affairs and our shir
of state must be piloted through the
stormy sea of the ages Uf it is not tc
sink in iD by the stars of HEAVIER
and not by the foam on the tossing
waves of passion and selfish interests
that swell and roar around it. Ev
cry trne citizen must consult thu
deepest and truest experience of hu
manlty, ponder over 1t until he feel
conviction and then act in obedlenc,
to the conviction continually. Th'
deepest and truest experience o
mankind is embodied IN its mora
laws
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
shall now say few words ol
the opportunity for service to on
generation that is offered to ever,
person in the sphere of activity ant
influence of which his church mem
bersMp is the center.
The opportunity for the improve
ment of ones personal character al
forded by the church. in its sympa
thetic fellow ship, its discipline in
struction, Its noble characters, il
eloquent and instructlvs preacher
and its richest and beautiful litera
ture are greater than most pee
pie imagine, greater than the mos
thoughtful and spiritual of its mem
bers realize. The opportunity ia
J usefulness which each one has in bt