The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-03-27
TEMPERANCE
LESSON
Sunday School Lesson for March %, 1909
Specially Arranged for This Paper

enness.-Deut PHO. 81: 32:33-S5: PROV. 20:l; |
2l:17; 1920, p: 3l:i. 5; lisa. 5:ll, -; Hos.
All; Hab. 2:15; Matt. 4. 5; lisa. BIZ =;
Hos. 41l: Hab. 2:l5 Matt. 2i:i9. 80: Luke
2I:35 Rom. 1878; Cor. 5:1l: Gal. 81; |
Eph. Els; / Thes. SOS: and to-day's les
son. Warning Exaniples.-Gen. $50. 81; L
Sam. rs :36: lisa. ISL. Z: Dan. 5:l-6: Esther
lilo, IL; Matt. 24:4S-5l. Temperance Cor.
9:25-27; Tim. 81, 3. S: Tit. 2:11-H: i Pet.
Al; SIS: Pet 1:6. Principles OF Total
Abstinence Cor. Is; Rom. IA; l Cor.
s. 9.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The money and talent in any civil
lied city is sufficient if properly used
and distributed to make that city an
Eden, an Hesperides garden or the
realization of any dream, ancient or
modern, of the Golden Age. All would
be educated all would partake of the
best things; there would be no slums,
no abject poverty. Everyone could
have all the joy, the wealth, the COM
forts, the rights. the school privileges
which he could use. The one thing
needed is the improved man to make
the social transformation of the world,
the eliminating every evil from the
character of men, till they are restored
to the moral image of God, when each
one did all he wished, and wishes but
what he ought.
The great obstacle in the way is sin,
bad character in some of its many
forms.
The one of these forms, the great
obstacle which most concerns us in
this lesson, is intemperance. the want
of self-control over the apretites and
passions.
The wise man of the Proverbs ex-
presses the evils of intemperance by
series of questions.
20. "Who hath woe? Who hath sor-
row." The words corresponding to
the two substantives are. strictly
| speaking intersections, as in the mar
| gin, Who hath oh? Who hath alas?
The woes are too great and too many
to name separately. They are woes OF
body and woes of mind; woes in ones
self, woes in his family; pains, dis
eases. poverty.
| Note that other people have woes
| and SORROWS, besides the Incorporate
man. Apostles and martyrs have been
imprisoned and tortured, have suffered
hunger and thirst, endured poverty
| and sickness and pain. We have
studied some instances during the past
quarter. Read the eleventh chapter OF
| Hebrews, Read the stories of the
Huguenots in France, and of the
martyrs aud missionaries of every age
But the difference in the two kinds
of suffering is heaven-wide.
The woes and sorrows of Peter and
John, Paul and Silas, in dungeons and
chains, rejoicing that they were counted
worthy to suffer for Chris.'s sake
with clear consciences, for the sake Of
the kingdom of God and salvation Of
men, listening to Gods We'll done
good and faithful" and seeing the
crown of righteousness are almost in
finitely removed from the woes ant
sorrows of those that tar~y long a
the wine," whose sufferings are thu
fruit of their own sins.
The other sorrows that flow from
the wine cup mentioned in the wis
mans questions belong only to wicked
Mesa quarrelsome disposition
where strong drink infiames the pas
sions. and, at the same time, remove
the restraint of conscience and viii
| first maddening and then unchainin
the tiger, grumbling. foolish talking
where the drunkard's tongue is set o
. fire of hell" wounds without cause;
| .redness of eyes," either tor BOTH tn
dimfning of the sight. physical, ments
and spiritual, or the copper nose
u which makes the drinkers nose blus
for the sins of his mouth"
The means by which these gres
evils can be removed are precisely tn
same as those which produced tn
marvellous transformations of cha
acter in the early Christian disciple
which we have been studying.
1. Christ. our Living Leader, Ii
power of God for salvation.
2. The Holy Spirit, convincing me
of sin, of righteousness, and of jud
ment to come; awakening men
1
5. The religious life which these pr
duce.
} 4. rhe results as manifested in Il
healing of the body. and the bette
=. ment of the outward life and hapI
ID ness, which were symbols and meal
to a better spiritual life
5. The banding together in an orga
= ization which created helpful NOR
atmosphere.
Or 6. The courage wisdom. generosit
ID love. peace. joy, religious spirit, rigf
IS eousness of life, produced in the d
ciples.
%. :. Their efforts to bring others in
or these blessings. and to spread the go
to news.