Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND
YOUNG PEOPLES NEE lNCS
News of Interest to Church Goers By a
Writer Who is An Authority ON Religious
Subjects. The International Lesson for
Next Sunday.

Dor, this world would be very charis
table world.
That is exactly what we do not do.
BY some mental@ twist men commonly
suppose that ability to pointsout other
persons fsgrits somehow atonss for
their own shortcomings. Thus, by q
strange perveItsion Of thtnling, they
substitute censotiousnsss for correct
ness. That sort Of blindness to ons's
own deficiencies and keenness of ,vis-
ion to neighbour invariably pro-
duces hgpocriay.
Thou hypocsite," was the rni3destt
word that ME taentHsti OF all Teachsrs
coua fnd to apply to the man whose
eye was thus .Hesssnged. uncharitable-
ness perwefSs ones mind and nature
That thought could be followed out,
and would be found to run deeper
even than the Impaired faculties
which lead us to suppose, that the
presence, Of saz mote in a brothers eye
ilsumeh1w 'tastiHes the beam in our
Town. To be wholly, sane We must be
charitable.
| Tire Father Philosophy.
Hsgh things were brought near by
Jesus. Pfc Interpreted the great mys-
teries Sof religion In the terms Of
everyday. Teshirn., the awful Jehovah,
whose narae3mtgot FnotAbe spoken, was
juet a FTat!1Rr, TO be understood by the
analogy of the dear, familiar relation
ship. This great passage in the Dis
course might be Interpreted thus
Don't be afraid OF God, He Is your
Heavenly Father. You wouldn't deny
your child anything that is for his
I good, nor wcsild you deceive him
would you? Neither wonld God. So
4 ask, and you'll get; seek, and you'll
find; knock, and the door will straigh.
way open. For God is good and gen
erous and loving"
That simple faith was not what the
reBbis taught. They had devised an
elaborate theology, and had oyerlaiC
!. essential religion with interpretations
a burdens too grievous to be borne
Always fundamental religion is in dan
ger Of this, Tho tendency is to pusf
Il God far OF, behind barrier of cere
j.; monies and forms. Jesus enumerated
the grealest trufbr concerning the
Deity when he taught mon to say "Oul
! Father"
: Above the Golden Rule.
Men often speak.of the Golden Rule
ID which constitutes the central point II
/ this lesson, as If it were the highes
f peak in the teaching Of Christ. 1t i
:, not. The words Of Jesus and his apos
ties, lag down the far higher principi
of vicsricus sacrifice. The life of Jesu
, far trsnscends the Golden Rule. Tha
!. merely asked that the other man b
: treated as well as one would like t
$ he treated in his place. But the Lay
. ofSthe crcGs stands for the sacrifice Q
: self for the sake of another.
l On the Golden Rule basis. however
e society may sslve all its probleD1s
j This Is the doctrine Of "the sQuar
+ deel'-equal rights for ell and specjs
b privileges. for none. The tenporanc
d question, which the international con
mittee cites specifically for troatner
this week, is to come to q final issu
| not on the basis Of chemical tests an
Il exhibits Of human tissue diseased b
O alcohol but ON the ground OF fatrnes
a, to tho other man. The man who live
q by the Golden Rule cannot permit h
8 fellow man to be debauched in min
al and body with heritage of wea}znet
Y hequeathed to his children. He Close
= ap the liGuor traffic because be wan
n to practice the prin ciple, Therefor
a all things whatsoever We would th'
n men should do to you. do We even 80
10 them. for this is the law and tt
a prophets