The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

! SOnest, whatsoever tnlnBS are just, Wnht-
soever things are pure whatsoever things
are lovely. whatsoever things are OF good
\ report; II there be any virtue. and II ther,
be any praise. think on these things
Philippians. ~. s.
There are today more people than
ever before asking the question. What
is right?" They have been led to
ask this question by an arousal Of con-
science from lethargy that at one time
seemed to be as binding as prison
chains. In this reawakening the
church has played most important
part, but its appeals have been sec
onded by moralists and even by states
men. Today the question, What Is
right?" is asked not only in personal
morals, but In the larger affairs OF
life, and to the extent that there Is
greater effort for higher standards
OF morality and OF religious prac.
tices.
The question is an old one. It has
been asked by man since first he knew
there was right which might be dis.
tinguished from wrong It has been
discussed In all its phases. and st.
Paul In his letter to the Philippians
exhorts them In the words OF our text.
He tells them that right Is what is
true. what is honest. what is just. what
is pure and lovely and of good re.
port" His exhortation is as peril.
nent today as then, and his definition
as complete. Let us first consider
men. not things.
A great many men are true so far
as their standards permit them to be.
There are others who seek constant e.
ovation of standards so that they may
be nearer the ideal true man. To be
true man means to be truthful In
thought. In speech in act, to be devoid
OF assimilation. to be right and to be
Just what you seem to be: TO be loyal
to all that is good and devoted to the
furtherance Of good. Such a man In
variably answers the question What
Is right?" correctly, and his answer
has the respect OF his fellow men.
A great many men are honest so
far as the demands OF relationship
with other men may go. and few go
beyond this point and are honest with
themselves as well as with their fel.
lows In their transactions they have
no doubts, no regrets. no sufferings
OF conscience. They make every
transaction closed transaction in
every sense OF the word. They are
right, Such men are the examples OF
honesty that should be emulated.
Men are just In the measure that
they mete to their fellow men: and
some OF them are Just to the extent
that they heap the measure to over.
flowing. They neither weigh to the |
ounce. nor exact their pound OF flesh |
as old Shylock did II anything. they
are just to the point of generosity and |
have the satisfaction OF knowing that |
they have given full value or full
credit to all with whom they come In
contact.
Most men are pure to the extent
that they have no faults or vices that
stamp them as immoral There are
others whose thoughts even are pure
and TO whom impurity is absolutely OBJ.
noXious. They think good, and as the
thought is the father OF the act. they
act well. These are the men at whom
the finger OF suspicion never points.
but are always held as models after
which we should pattern
Men who are truly honest, Just and
pure, men whose thoughts are always
upward. are men of good report. They
have uuassailable regulations support.
ed by unimpeachable characters. They
ask the question. What Is right?"
from the innermost recesses of their
souls. and answer IL with all the en-.
Ughtenment Of conscience and spirit.
ual guidance that God can give them.
They are always men of good report
and always will Ne so long as they
possess the virtues that the apostle u,
has enumerated.
| know that the apostle tells the
brethren to think of things that are ;
true, honest. pure, lovely and of good :
1t is by thinking of these !.
things that men become honest, true
and just, The apostle asks them not
only TO think but to reason. for he
says that "if there is any virtue in
these things, II there be any praise"
of them will bring them into
their lives and cause them to be CRATE
ful for the good they receive Men !
who think honestly, men who try to be :
gain for themselves all v
The good that can be derived from
right thought and pure thinking. And .
hat good Is ability to think straight. |
md answer correctly the question,
What is right?" q
OF course there is no absolute right. 0
Wen do not think alike. They have d
not the same standards, nor the same Z
conceptions, and yet they have one v
standard of right and their conception c
II that standard will always grow bet. g
er and better the more they study IL o
That standard was set by Christ Paul o
studied 1t, and his wonderful growth /
n spirituality enabled him to tell the
what they should think
lbout for he knew that the man who
vas true. honest. Just and pure the n
nan who regarded things that were el. 1
waiting and of good report, would be n
'ome the man who would be able soon. #
n or later TO answer more exactly the .
question. What is rlght?" !
Xn,, nnn fnlln,u nn,,I,u .......-...I.- .I-.