Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-17

tight reign over the flesh? Shall
man fly the slogan, "1'll do as /
please" or shall he adopt PauFs
motto, az keep my body under?" That
Is the question, stated fundamentally.
All PHILOSOPHERS concerning intemper-
ance or temperance, epicureanism or
ascetism, self-indulgence or sef.denial
go directly back to that proposition:
Shall the body rule?
A wise writer has said 1--WE have
bodies: we are souls.
Every tool should be kept for its
highest use. To use a penknife as a
scYewdriver, or a table fork as cork
screw, is commonly disastrous to the
penknife or the fork: and 1t usually
fails to accomplish Its object. So a
l:fe should be employed for it's wor-
thiest end. The personality that has
rare and noble spiritual possibilities
should not be lived on the oaser lever
of kinship with the lower creature.
The GodWard rather than the peasI-
ward side of man should be cultivated.
If self-restraint is divine, and seif-ln-
diligence is carnal, then plainly the
wise way for human being is to 40
the divine thing and to employ MS
finer, higher faculties.
Whoever filings the reins of his life
into the hands OF passion, puts an I'M
trained slave into the kings seat.
The body is only tool; it is the
spirits means of self-expression.
One Of the strong absolute state
n1ents of Scripture is that The mind
of the flesh is death" In other words,
the person who lives only for the SEN
sations of the body has already begun
to die: like man who has been at
tackled by slow paralysis which stead
,ly Greens to the vital organs. II
! slang NAV be used reverently. we may
say that already the carnally-minded
person is az dead one" The startling
| statement of Scripture has a brighter
| side: for Paul goes on to say that
"The mind of the flesh is death: but
the mind of the spirit is life and
peace" Over against this way of
| death opens the portal of the way of
life. To be spiritually minded is to be
alive and in an increasing degree.
physical pleasures pail with usage,
and finally the capacity for them dis
annears. But spiritlal-mindednes en-
I larges with the passage OF time until
ultimately 1t blends with the full, free
and royal life of eternity.
/ Self knowledge, self reverence, self
control,
These three alone lead life to sover
eign power -Tennyson
The best life is not the beast life
mans life. says one, is measured
nv the number of things to which he Is
alive. If he is alive to higher things
. no will live the higher life; to larger
! lthinss, the larger life; to lower things
81 the lower life; to base things, the bass
} life.
T hold it truth with him who sings,
: To one clear harp in divers tones,
THAT men rise on stepping stones
LOT their dead selves to higher things
-Tennyson.
| The body is,the best servant but th'
; worst master.
t Every thoughtful person has a
e some time or other faced the questlo'
! Of a possible emancipation fror
V thralldom to the appetites of the ply
S steal nature Is there not powe
s above and beyond man to help hir
9 amid the besetments of his lower nj
d ture? The Christian religion teache
S that there is. The mysteriously-in
s parted Spirit of Jesus is given to ma
S to help him to be more than man.
e is "by the Spirit" that we are apt
t nut to death the doings of the bod.
O or as that other reasoning word sun
Q n,arizes the truth, where the Spir
OF the Lord is, there is liberty
seven Sentence Sermons.
It is not so much the prayer, but tn
n prayer that moves the heart OF Cod
D, w. II. Territt
The world we're passing through
Gods world as much as any wei
ganging to.-Edmund Garrett
Is Light obeyed increaseth light;
le Light resisted bringeth night
IL Anon.
IT If my faith is wrong am bound
he change It: if it is right | am bound
II propagate it.-Archbishop Whately.
ly 7 have so ruled my life that whf
r. death comes, l might face witho
u fear-Henry Hovelock.
TO Sweet friends,
is Mans love ascends
Id To finer and diviner ends
tn Than Mans mere thought e'er CO
~ prehends. -Lanler.
lie
ne To those who follow that part
as themselves which is great are gre
az men. and those who follow that Will
g; is little are little men.-Mencius.
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