Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-04-06
DUTY OF sELF-DIsCIPLINE.
By Rev. Richard Hamilt,

DO L Sf OcLG LIN
By Rev. Richard Hamilton.
He was subject unto them.-Luke
:51.
After the birth of Christ silence falls
upon His lie. His bOyhood has no
record. His youth not vestige of his
tory. Once in all those years we see
Him teaching in the temple and then
Mary's voice calls Him home. He goes
back to Nazareth, and the story of His
life up to His thirtieth year is written
where? Nowhere upon earth save in
the heart of his mother.
Why this silence? Jesus was pre-
pairing for His great work in the OBJ
scurty of poor, mean cottage, finding
therein and in His relations toward
two of his own creatures full scope for
the exercise Of every virtue. He did
this to lay deep the foundations of
school where men might learn to sane
tify themselves, as He had done-the
school of the Christian home
Christ chose to spend thirty years
out of His limited thirty three in duties
and simple labors Of apparently a COM
monplace and trivial order. He elected
emphatically the most lofty spiritual
! lty. Simple means are these, and well
within the reach of all mankind; nor
can any man complain of want Of op-
| In, hn oi,,n, ,n,,t Of
tion, since it is his birthright, coming
to him at the cradle and at his mothers
knee
1t is here at the root of things that
man must begin his true work in ac-
quirement of solid virtue; here in the
practice of homely acts of patience and
courtesy, of charity and good example.
1t is the business of every man to
do good. Lofty projects for the bet
tterment of the human race are all very
we'll 1t is the natural tendency of the
young heart and of the lover of justice
to strive to right the wrongs Of the
downtrodden, and shout to redress all
grievances. These are the outpourings
of uncorrupt human nature and should
be preserved at all cost. But the more
difficult attainments, such as self-con-
troll and self-purification, must take the
lead else the audacious reformer brings
down upon his head a merited con-
tempt. Lip service without fair prac-
tice accompanying it bears not fruit.
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q man can be, then, and only then, is
he fit to take up the battle AK and
cleave successfully with it.
He that has filled his immediate IN
ner circle of life with the light Of his
graciousness and has made the hearts
under his roof to sing with gladness
may justly and confidently turn to the
great universal family and enter upon
the world of combat equipped in an
armor that has been tempered and
forged at his own domestic fires.
No man ever came into this world
with so full a knowledge and keen a
: consciousness of the needs of suffering
humanity as did Christ, the all-wise
No one has loved with as tender love
or had greater power to conquer the
enemy unframed and unprepared thar
He, since He needed no apprenticeship
: Yet how did He act? Did He rusl
out unprepared, or did He choose tC
, make Himself living example?
/ The scripture explains it in these
words: "He was subject unto them
t Subject to Joseph, the carpenter, and tC
, young and almost childlike mother
) subject to the conditions of a lowly
life and such everyday duties as fall tc
2 the lot of all men-content to do al
, things, both great and small, but to dC
) them perfectly.