Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-01-19
:. He can go to perdition by any
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use whatsoever of Intoxicating liquor
has for its corre~ stone the Christ
principle which Paul enunciates: IF
meat make by brother to offend. then
viii l eat no neat To deny ones self
for the sake of another is a Christian
doctrine. 1t was best expressed in the
tragedy on Calvary. and it has since
become the very germ principle of the
religion of Jesus.
Seliishness is the supreme heresy.
Tho strong VIII will not Dear the
burdens of the weak %repudiate the law
of Christ.
Whatever hurts a weaker soul. by
that fact becomes Il foe of the chiyal-
rous strong.
The new knighthood of Jesus--the
countless company of high souls who
dare to ride forth against all the enc
mics of truth and humanity-are wag-
ing their war on a high level. "Ouix-
QUO, many call them. as they fearless
~ face great odds and LONE e~ntrenchcl
wong: but they are not %auixotic: they
are wise with Il wisdom that is not of
this world. And they are winning.
Their ideals are steadily becoming the
ideals of the race. What was the
action of the United States in cham
ploning Cuba's cause but an expression
OF the altruistic spirit which animates
the great Christian enterprises? That
love. and not selfishness, is coming TO
be looked upon as a rational human
ideal and goal. the great Hague court
is an evidence.
When this day of brotherhood which
is dawning has fully come there viii
he no room in The world for anything
that stains the soul on mains the body
of man. That bars out strong drink.
1t must go under the ban of love. The
net influence Of the liquor traffic
is bad. and only bad. II hurts
humanity. Therefore The men
Who are their brothers Keepers Will not
permit i. To continu" on IFS devastating.
way.
Every day produces countless scenes
like the following. could they he mar
rated. ON Il recent Friday night / was
going home from the ewspap office
shortly before l o'clock. The streets
We're deserted n all the homes and
stores We're closed except IN occasional
saloon. AS the street car passed
through Il great Industrial n%eishhor-
hood The saloons were seen to be live
iler man elsewhere. Friday is pay day
In The mills. Suddenly We came ul,un
IL corner. where, in The ligh, THAT
streamed from the door and window of
u saloon stood two %inaudlin characters.
ana gSl At the hand of one of them
was a httle child Of perhaps four years
dressed in white plainly in his sun
day clothes. The father ignored The
''' 'Itltt IL III Llc famous
song. Half way up the block we calmc
upon another chapter of the same
story. There. partly concealed by the
snauow OF am awning. stood a meanly
clad woman. gazing with all her sou
upon the scene at the corner. Back of
hef. huddIed in the doorway of n store,
was n boy. of twelve or thereabouts
thinly clad and shivcring in the
night winds. The chill of the air
easily penetrated the woman's calico
dress. but she seemed not to mind it:
perhaps because of the greater chill at
her heart. The whole story was plain
10 the passengers in the car, even with
out the illuminating expression of
mingled fear, anxiety and expectation
on me poor woman's face. The hus-
band had been spending the night car
ousing in the saloon, his weeks wages
rapidly slipping across the bar into the
owners tili. The wife. upon whom the
burden of household care naturally fell.
had waited. watched and worried: but
she dared not go to the saloon herself
TO bring her husband way. Her atti-
tude of dread told it's own tale of cruel
". Then she had hit upon the eXpcdi-
emit of dressing the little child in his
best and sending him into that malo-
dorous room to beguile the drunken
la amer out. only partly had he sue
ceeded when l passed them, long after
midnight. The scene evok ed the right
eous indignation of every man who
saw 1t. Tha thing ought not to be
possible. True. the husband was a
weakling and a brute, but that fact did
not mend the lot of the children and
the wife. Had that saloon not been
open with its enticements, he man
would hours before have been home.
possessed of a larger portion of his
weeks earnings to supply the family
needs. The reasonable claim of that
woman n her children is that they
be ave from the husbands drunken
ess. and that the husband be saved
from himself.
He is most truly his brothers keeper
who keeps him from his lower self
and for his higher mission.
All keepers of men are kept by God.
The best service of God is service of
| our fellow men.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
The earnestness of life is the only
passport to the satisfaction of life
Theodore Parker.
Courtesy is the oil in the machinery
Of social life.-Avellaneda.
Then give to the world the best YOU
have,
And the best will come back to you.
1ntemperance is the egg Of which,
all vices may be hatched.-St. Aucust-
Inc.
Vanity. flattery. and deceit are the
three dis-graces. Horace Greeley.
But right Is right. since God Is God;
II right the day must win:
To doubt would be %dislOyalty.
To falter would be sin.
James Russell Lowell.
The craving for sympathy is natural,
enough. and 1t ought never to be treat
ed harshly. but 1t easily becomes ig-
noble n morbid, because very selfish.
Charles G.. Ames.
A novel development of missionary
work is reported from New Guinea,
where many of h former cannibal
communities have become Christians.
The conversion OF the natives. however,
deprtves them of their chief employ
ment. war. and they suffer from idle
ness. So a company has been organ
lied in London. on strictly commercial
Lines, to develop the national
Of h South Sea islands. and thus. by
| providing them labor. to promote the
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