The Brinkley argus., 1909-06-25
TEMPERANCE.
 LESSON
sunday School Lesson for June c7. 1929
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 LESSON TENT. Romans l3:S-4. Mem ory verses, s, To-
 GOLDEN TEXT.-'Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 1914.
 I'M lME.--Probably written early in the year of A. D. 5S.
 PLACE.-The epistle was written at Oorihth' during Pauis second visit there. Suggestion and Practical Thouont.
 Subject: Temperance Involved in the Law of Love-"
 mtroduction.-Who wrote the Epis- tie to the Romans? 1t is one of inc undoubted letters of Paul, the most Pauline of all the writings which bear PauFs name. fundamental among our materials for Pauline theology.''- Hastings Bible Dictionary.
 The All-IncIusive Debt of Love.-vs. 8-lO. How does Paul rank the duty of loving? He places it before all other duties. He has been urging (Bon. Is: ? the scrupulous payment of all deDts, and repeats the command: Owe no man any thing" Of course this does net forbid borrowing. but re- quires the payment of all debts when they are due. There is, however, one debt so vast that it never can be paid in full: ito love one another" Love sums up the whole law and perfect love would make perfect man. It is obvious that if we love our neighbor, we shall not kill him, 0? steal from him, or bear false witness against him, or covet his good things, or work i'll to our neighbor in any ether way.
 The Temperance Application.-It would be hard to name an "ill to neighbor" that is not fostered by in. temperance. We suffer more year by year from intemperance than from war, pestilence and famine combined those three great scourges of the hu- man family "-Gladstone
 A Warning from Approaching Death. -Vs. II, F. With what argument did Paul urge the law of love? That the end of the world was at hand, the close of the present order of things And that" there is good reason fer you to do, namely, keep the law of love, be- cause you know the critical time" in which you live This is a reference to the Parousia, or second coming of Christ, which Paul and the other apes. ties seem to have believed to be close at hand.
 What conclusion did Paul draw from the nearness of Christ's coming? That t was high time to awake out of sleep: for their salvation was nearer than when they believe" (aorist tense, came to believe, became Christians)
 "The words are as an alarm, CT morning watchbell, awakening Christian to his days work Arch bishop Leighton.
 What are the temperance applica tions of this thought? Intemperance dulls the physical sense, blears the eyes, renders the touch less sensitive, the hearing less acute, the brain less active. It dnlls the moral nature,a Drinking men soon lose the nice sense of right and wrong, Conscience be- comes sluggish. The will becomes fabby. Wake up! Wake up!" let every Christian cry to the intemper ate
 A Pure Life and How to Live It. Vs. 13, H. How does Paul sum up these rules of life? f'Let us walk (that is, live) honestly as in the day when men can see us. The reference is to the exteriors of life, but Paul was the last man to forget that "out of the heart are the issues of life" He is still speaking in parable, and to the end of the chapter he uses outer raj ment as a symbol of inner character
 Tn order to live becomingly what must we avoid? HRioting fR. V rev elling'D and drunkenness, chambering Unlawful intercourse) and wanton ness, strife and envying (R. " "jeal- ousy'')
 That is negative; positively, in or der to live becomingly what must we do? "Put on Gas a garment, oontinu- ing the metaphor) the Lord Jesus Christ. and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof" 1" Flesh in the moral sense; the depraved na- ture. Prof. NJ. R. Vincent. We are to plan for physical needs, but not for sensual qualifications,
 What are the modern temperance applications of this rule of life? There would be no saloons if men ''put on tho Lord Jesus Christ" Who can can imagine him as entering those dens of iniqulty, unless to rescue his brothers from the snare? Every saloon is a provision for the flesh melting to all abominable passions ouarreling, profanity, brutality, mur ders. indecent speech plots, licentious- ness.
 Gov. Hanly of Indiana, writing in The Cbristian Endeayor World of De cember 2G, 1907, says eThat alcohol ism shortens life, and that abstainers have q distinctly greater longevity than non-abstainers is convincinSiy demonstrated by actuarial experience Ire testimony of certain English life insurance companies, based upon many years of experience, establishes inc fact that the longevity of abstain. CTS is at least 25 per cent. greater than that of non-abstainers.
 Six per cent. of all accidents. 25 ner cent. of all suicides, 70 per cent, of all crimes involving physical vio. 1ence and 50 per cent. ef all those in