The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-23
Sunday School Column
Side Lights on Next Sundays Les.
son for Teachers and Pupils.
By CHAs. K. MEYERS.

By CHAs. K. MEYERS 81
June ~. A Temperance Lesson.
Romans 1854.
The thirteenth and fourteenth chap
tiers of Romans contain perhaps the
strongest reasons why christians who
are living up to their best light should
abstain from the use of intoxicating
drinks. The great apostle, Paul,
places the attitude Of the true CHRIS
tian on the question of doings things
which might lead other following to
fall into sin. in light which closes
all controversy in our mind. In the
thirteenth chapter. in which are the
lesson verses Paul urges christians not
to engage in rioting. and drunkenness.
strife and envying. but to put on the
Lord Jesus Christ and to put away
sinful and worldly things. He says
life is too serious to indulge in things
which draw christians away from fol-
lowing Christ.
It will be remembered that Jesus
said many times that He demanded
that one Glove his neighbor as him
self. {" In the ninth verse Of our les
son. Paul repeats this thought Of
Jesus when In ending the verse he
says that the various commands of the
law can be briefly given by saying.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self. I" In John 1912 Jesus said that
His commandment was that His fol-
lowers love one another as He loved
them. Few can claim that he loves
his neighbor If he induces him to
drink liquor which will make him
drunk or incapacitate him for his bus
mess avocations. Jesus says in one
place that it were better to be drowned
in the sea with mill stone about
your neck. than to lead one Of the
little ones or the children int wrong
doing. To our mind the man or wo-
man who induces by example or advice
children to drink alcoholic liquor is
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taching milestone to themselves.
:, It is in the latter verses Of the
fourteenth chapter Of Romans that
Paul gets right down to plain talk on
the example . christian ought to get
in the world. In the thirteenth verse
he says that one should Judge or con-
slider whether he wants. Ito put q
stumbling block or an occasion to fall
in his brothers. way. In the fifteenth
verse comes that strong declaration,
Destroy not him with thy meat fol
whom Christ died. This means that
one should not set such an example il
life that some brother or sister. neigh
Dor or friend is lead to do things which
will endanger their eternal salvation.
It is fearful thought that it can Dy
any possibility be laid to one 9 door that
he caused soul to miss heaven. In
the 18th verse of the fourteenth Of
Romans stands that corner stone rock.
that unfailing guide, that needle ever
pointing in the right way, telling
what is right and what is wrong tol
the christian to do as regards his
example in the werld. Would that
the words of this verse were written
indelliply on the heart Of every per.
son who is attempting to lead a chris.
tian life. 1t reads, eft is good neither
to eat flesh nor to drink wine, mol
anything. whereby thy brother Stun.
bleth, or is offended, or is made
weak. With this before one. he cal
ever decide his conduct in life touch
ing his example before his fellow men
We hope that in the Sunday School,
the teachers will urge the signing o
the pledge. and take every means e
fortify the children to successful,
resist the enticement Of the drfnl
habit.