Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-05-21
REMOVE TEMPTATION.
Are You Your Brothers Keeper?
Mexico Mans Plea.

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it became a thing of life. Plants
grew, and at every heart-throb
rich red blood leaped through the
arteries of the animal kingdom,
and man is of that Kingdom. But
man was created, and is more than
an animal. Within him is i'm.
planted soul, conscience, the
power 10 reason, the power to pro-
duce, TO bring forth, and to inn
prove. which takes him out of the
animal class and makes him lord
and master of the lower creation,
truly justifying the assertion of
the Scripture that man is created
in the image of the Creator, thus
making him responsible being,
knowing good from evil.
Being responsible, what are his
responsibilities. or what should be
his attitude toward his fellowmani
Away back in the dim and misty
past we hear the cry of Cain, Am
my brothers keeper!"
God answered him then and there
by his punishment, and reverberat-
ing down the corridors of time we
hear, Thou shall not" do any
harmful thing toward thy brother,
and. like an echo, the voice OF the
Savior saying, Love thy neigh
Dor as thyself;" AS We would
that others should do unto you,
do We even so unto them" and we
hear him prououncing woe upon
any who shall make his brother Of
fend; we hear him commanding us
to go unto all the world and
preach the Gospel" we hear the
Apostle saying, He that converteth
the sinner from the error of his
way shall save a soul from death,
and shall hide multitude of
sins" "
These things thundered from
Mt. Sinai, and craven on stone by
Almighty God, spoken on the
mountain and in the valleys by Je-
sus Christ, His son, and cried in
the streets by the Apostles, are
imprinted in our brain aud scared
on our hearts, and we as nation
stand with bowed heads and ans.
wer the question of Cain asked
thousands of years ago and say, /
am my brothers. keeper. "
Man is instinctiveIy his brothers $
keeper. Let the cry Of distress
ring out and like a lightning flash
a great wave of pity sweeps over
the most commonplace crowd, and
men become almost GOd-like in
. their efforts TO rescue. "One touch
of pity makes the whole world
akin"
Man is responsible for his broth
er. The strong must help the
weak, the blind cannot lead the
blind else they both fall into the
ditch.
Who are the weak and who are
the strong! Men who are tempted
D and fall. are weak. The oftner
they fall the weaker they become.
aud thev perish without the strong
hand of the brother.
: The greatest temptation and
e cause OF crime aud agony today ii
s intoxicating drink. Alchohol il
4 its various forms is responsible foI
three. fOurths ofall the crime and
misery of the civilized world. This
is said without fear of successful
O. contradition. for government sta
tistics aud the observation OF law
yers aud criminal judges bear on
: thisassertion Then the duty of thI
: strong is to remove "a far as pos
e sible the temptation from the weak
q Each and every place where intoX
iceting liquor can be obtained il
temptation and should be IemOv
a ed, and it is not removed then tn
:. strong have betrayed their trust
disobeyed the laws of God and ma
: ture and stand convicted, and wO
10 unto them by whom these offence
70 come, for the sin of OmmissiOn i
[. as great as commission.
| can take drink or let it alone
say the strong. Then don't tax
: IL, for your brother cannOt-"Les
3 by any means this liberty Of your
Il become stumbling block to theI
{, that are weak" aud mo drunk
ard shall enter into the KingdoI
y Of Heaven"
d SO IL would be better that yo
h. take no drink while the worl
standeth, lest You make your brotl
or to offend.
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D. loon, say the weak. The answe