The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-23

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rule has failed to accomplish its mis-
s;ou. not because it is not truth,
but because IL Is only half q truth,
as IL IS popularly used to-day. The
second commandment is a safe guide
| fog our rule and practice through life
only when 1t is correlated with that
primary commandment which our Lord
enunciated as at the logical centre of
the moral and spiritual realities. The
golden rule Is not enough OF guide
for US as we travel toward the undis-
covered country. We must be more
than moral IL we desire happiness
here and hope to enter into Joy eter-
nal hereafter The golden rule must
he vitalized by the living first princi-
! pie Of the kingdom of God The trou-
| BILE with the world Is that men have
| cen altogether too we'll satisfied to
| do and be done by, as God never in
! tended they should. See for a mo-
| ment how this half truth works in
| practice. You and are on the Stock
/ Exchange. You are satisfied that IL
| by trickery or falsification or by the
spreading Of dangerous reports, true
or untrue, | can ruin you, | may do
So provided | afford you equal oppor-
tunity to do the same to me. You
and I are trading horses. It is all
right for you to fleece me with my
/ eyes open so long as | am permitted
/ to fleece you in the same manner.
| You and | are in business. 1t is
proper for me to steal your trade,
/ provided you have an equal oppor-
I tunity to steal mine. OF course this
/ meets a modern Interpretation of the
golden rule, which says, Whatsoever
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/ unto you, do ye even 50 unto them.
| But how grievously it violates the
| spirit of Chrlst's law. The principle
4 OF the business world too largely is
/ this, that 1t is all right for one dog
| to eat the other, because they have
agreed that it shall be fair to play
| the industrial and commercial game
| that way. Thou shalt love thy
/ neighbor as thyself," we are told.
/ But when this law is separated from
I the correlated truth that Christ de-
clared, and transplanted alone into
/ the lives OF multitudes OF men to-day,
We understand what an awful half
truth 1t has become.
In all seriousness, l do not desire
that some men shall love me in the
way they love themselves, outside of
/ Christ. | do not care to practice the
golden rule as to-day It is promulgat.
! ed in our social life, outside of Jesus
Christ, or to have it so practiced upon
me. For some men haye no compre-
/ hension of their own value and the
demands of their own integrity upon
I their lives; and how, therefore, can
they appreciate the value of the lives,
the minds, the hearts, the souls, the
peace and purity and happiness of
their fellow men? Some men have
/ such a small estimate, seemingly, of
themselves, judged by the way they
treat themselves, that we should be
untrue to ourselves did we not resent
I like treatment by them of us. Some
/ men have such a debased idea con-
cerning what is right for men to do
unto them that they cannot be ex-
| pected to know, unless the grace OF
| God inform them, what they should
do to their fellows.
/ The message for our own time. the
| appeal of to-day, must be based on
| the text have read. Its theme must
/ be the love of man for God. Loving
/ God, we shall conserve the interests
of our own personalities and gain a
1 divine value of our own worth to God
and to the world. Loving God, we
Do you suppose for an instant that
| men would have the audacity to pub.
| lish declarations that they were only
worth paltry couple of hundred mill
/ lions If they really loved God as God
/ means they should? Do you suppose
/ for an instant that they would boast
that they can buy legislatures and
/ judges and the government, II they
| loved God as Jesus loved Him? If
we loved God as Jesus means we
/ should, do you suppose that we would
| stand for child labor, with all it's hor-
/ rors and cruelties; for the saloon
( as il is, with all its fruitGge of vice
and crime and misery and poverty
Z and despair If we loved God as
J Jesus means we should, have you the
/ slightest suspicion that we would PER-
nit women by the thousands to be
sent into the brothel in economic self
defense? II men loved God, would
1t be thinkable that they would mur.
! der and rape, and steep themselves
| In drunkenness, in bestiality and
/ crime? Do you think that il We
could get men to love God, they
/ would not have again lively cot
/ seriousness of His sovereignty as Ed
wards declared II, and Of their free
] VIII 10 90 the right as wesley Ce-
clared it, and of their personal re-
sponsibilty as Finney declared 1t, and
Of their Indebtedness to divine love as
Moody declared it? l think not
The new note of the church will he
the love of men for God. For 1t Is
the second logical step in the scheme
OF redemption IN Christ. God in
Christ hath already loved Een, and
now loves them. II is for them
TO reciprocate His love. The new
message must be the central truth OF
the kingdom OF God on its manwurd
side We must lead men to love
God Then shall we reach them.
Getting men to love God, VIC shnll
transform the individual character;
we shall regenorsta aoclety; we shall
make wars to cease and all nations
throughout ell the earth to dwell in
righteous and godly fraternal rela-
tionships.. The task 81 Great. But
It is not impossible. The means and
the method we shall discuss at an
other time. But when we shall have
gotten men to love the living God,
then shall we hear voice out OF
Heaven saying unto Nc, "Behold, the
tabernacle OF God is with men, and
lie will dwell with them, and they
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