Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-21
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND
YOUNG PEOPLES MEETINGS
News of Interest TO Church Goers By a
Writer Who is An Authority on Religious
Subjects. The International Lesson for
Next Sunday.

His safeguard was that he made clear
that liberty should be animated by
love. II each man thought first of the
| others welfare, and of the profit Of
the many he could afford to live by
this royal law of freedom. Paul put il
In these words: II also please all men
in all things, not seeking mine own
profit, but the profit of the many, that
they may be saved" That is con
trolling principle like unto the mag.
netic pole, which draws the mariners
needle ever toward the north.
Social Law and personal Liberty
Anyone who does utterly as he
pleases amid his fellow-men is an an.
archist The law rightly lays its re.
straining hand upon such. Selflshness
IS unsocial. He who serves himself
first cannot serve his fellow men.
When the rule is every man for him.
SELF the result is not that the devil
gets the hindmost, but that he gets
the foremost. Prominence in self
seeking is supreme sin. Let 1t be
written plainly and beyond all misun-
derstanding that whatsoever is seek
ing his own ways, regardless of his
neighbours welfare, is an offender
against all laws, human and divine.
Christian liberty looks first to the
welfare of its fellow men.
This opens the door to all the legis-
lation that is OF late attracting atten-
ton in restraint Of special privileges.
Nobody thinks that he can do as he
pleases with respect to smallpox, or
measles or sewage or the keeping Of
pigs. Neither can he do as he pleases
with respect to strong drink. The en-
lightened Judgment of modern society
is that the liquor traffic as whole is
inimical to the community. The local
option successes that have of late
been recorded In all parts of the land
are merely one sign of the increased
Specialization OF our times. They ind;
cate that selfish and individual
personal liberty" must be subordin-
ated to the prosperity and safety OF
the whole mass Of mankind In other
words, the reign of brotherhood is
supplanting the reign of predatory
selfshness.
The Highest Law.
What it means concerning society
today that 30 many altruistic senti-
ments are being enacted into civil
law may not here be indicated The
theme is possible of indefinite expan.
sion. The day Of brotherhood is dawn
ing. For there is a higher law than
this, one Of brotherhood. 1t solves all
social and personal problems. 1t is the
master key to all locks. Paul laid
down this law to the Corinthian
Christians. 1t is the best life motto
that can be adopted by any one:
Whether, therefore, We eat or drink.
or whatsoever We do, do all to the
glory of God"
There is the knightliest mission
that can enlist the service of high
souls. There is defined a career worthy
of an immortal. In this sentence is
pointed out the surest, clearest line
along which man can serve his gen
GRAFTON and the generation unborn
Whose lives for Gods glory cannot
help serving mans veal Whatsoever
conforms to that test meets all lesser
requirements. The best society con-
ceivable is that wherein the glory Of
God is the supreme objective of man.