Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND
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News of Interest to Church Goers BY a
Writer Who is An Authority on Religious
Subjects. The International Lesson for
Next Sunday.

love from within. All the lawyers in
Philadelphia cannot draw up an agree
ment that will make the discordant
| temperaments of man and wife con
genial. Only a new inner motive can
| be created TO compel men to fulfill
the full measure of obligation to each
other. Only the spirit of honor and
love can do that. The most advanced
socialists in the world might write all
Of society's laws without improving
conditions any, unless human nature
itself was first improved. Only the
Golden Rule can bring in the Golden
Age"
The New Social Sense.
We think that these are wonderful
times in which we live because ar
last we are getting some slight grasp
of the conception that the teachings
of Jesus are a working principle for
society. Each for all and ali for
each" is acclaimed rs new slogan
of progress. Really it is direct re-
turn to the teachings of Christianity.
We are simply showing that the ideals
of Jesus are working out in the minds
of men. The law of neighborliness
which is now creeping into political
platforms was basic with the early
church. 1t is at that truth that Paul
Is hammering in the present lesson.
A few evenings ago | sat with a
conmittee of men to promote social
cohesion in their community. The
gathering was not the result OF adj
vertisement or agitation, and no re-
mark was made about 1t afterWard:'
II was merely the working out OF the
teachings of the life of Jesus which
these men had been studying in a
Bible class. For when the mind of
Christ is given play, as the eorl>
Christians sedulously endeavored to
give ii play, it expresses itself in an
esaltation of human relationships. The
OLE gospel makes new neighborhoods.
The social sense of our ia" is but a
beginning of an apperception OF the
genius of the gospel.
Here is where the days teaching
applies to temperance Tor this is des-
igrated as temperate lesser this
new social impulse Of brother'iness,
this constant endeavor to pay the
debt of love. is the most insidious foe
to the use Of and traific n strong
drink. There is world-v.iue and ir-
resistible movement toward temper
ance. because temperance is ipextlic.
ably hound up with the social health.
The liquor men may hire renegade
preachers to espouse their cause !;
they may organize national
leagues for the reform of their own
business; and in panic they may pour
limitless treasure into their legisla-
tive defence fund" But it is all in
vain. The stars in their courses are
fighting against the unneighborly sa-
Icon 1t is doomed in an enlightened
society because 1t hurts mankind and
the community life. The war against
cd recently that within fifteen years
tuberculosis would be as uncommon
rs smallpox. There is SO mucn of the
mind of Jesus in the world today thai
these social anachronisms cannot be
tolerated.
Expulsion and InpuIsion.
The attitude of the twentieth cen
tury world is hospitable to the new
| teaching which Paul was enunciatine
to the early converts in Rome. Men
are reader to listen to the doctrine
| vi lo' navy SCC'
the bitter truth of the practice Of the
con trary teaching. When people gel
busy about loving they have no time
| for selfshness. and sordidness, and
! low selfindulgence. When any com
| munity is permeated with the minister
| ing spirit of Jesus great deal besides
strong drink will be driven out by the
impulsion OF that strong mind. Put
ye on the Lord Jesus Christ" as Pau
counseled. and great many Other
things will be put off. Darkness and
light cannot abide in the same room
The spirits of Jesus and the spirit thai
erects saloons and sweat shops ant
unsanitary tenements and permits
child labor and the other evils OF OIL
time, must fly as the night before the
dawn.
To bring this to pass is the mission
of the gosnel. 1t is after a new so
ciety, which Jesus called the Kingdom
of Heaven. That kingdom consists o
men and women who live by the love
law. His disciples are disciplined IL
self-forgettiDg services of their fellow
men. Their allegiance to him is prov
ed by their attitude toward theil
neighbors. In his train enter new
order of men and women-sober, self
restrained. self-sacrifcing and societ,
serving. No thought of temperance il
adequate which does not look forward
to social order where men walk be
comingly. as in the whose ever,
action will stand the test of the white
light Of the will Of God. Put We on