Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-05-25

a repetition Of an oft used expression
These times are needed each year, and
woe is the community that fails any
single year. Almost each year there
are Iapses. There seems to come
about a d~eclension more or less gen.
) eral each year. Men become i'm,
mersed in business, politics and people
generally become too much absorbed
in pleasure seeking. The things in
which they engage may or may not be
wrong per Sc, but whatever absorbs
the mind and the time and excludes
God becomes a business destructive
10 the spiritual welfare. In spite Of
girls or a boys protestatioas Of love
tor father and mother, if they never
find any tire for them only sufficient
to ask for a ten or a hundred dollars
when need comes, no time for com.
munion and fellowship, no time to learn
to know them better; no time to be
counseIed; notime to be a real heIp or
blessing in the home, methinks sadness
and doubt Of hIial love would fll the
heart Of the parent, Thus the more he
stayed out Of fellowship, the more he
regarded them as merely helpers of
his need, the less would his devotion
and LOYALTY and enjoyment of the
and certainly the less would he
in keeping with the father S wishes.
The more would be the sorrow to pa.
-ent and more the danger to SON.
Is it a wonder that men see little in
christianity when they regard it as a
mere fire escape, and God as merely m
helper in trouble and not a Father to b.
e enjoyed? When they regard d,
christianity only as a process Of self "a
eniaI, a hindrance to liberty and a di
needless c|aretaking? Is it a si
when men are so blind to the or
.aI meaning of Christianity and such KIN
rangers to God that there is d%ecIen. try
on in spirituality and that men be- int
sordid and materiaIisiic in life il to
in profession? wa
Each few years there is need of a tina
yivaI in politics, Men become alb. cor
rbed in business and become care. ma
IS about the political welfare. The exh
airy Of po.i battles and the Jun
npaigAs egAdu 8hem fo,m a tn,
ioeiam MtmrhoJd c@iuieiy heces- the
Y 70 any independent government ton
. republic. A democratic form Of que
eminent is government by the PEG. give
Each Of the people should be FAN
ormed and should give expression thar
he polls to his honest convictions. fair
.eeps a sale state, it makes a safe fair
lenship, There is each year at priz
tain intervals reyivaIs in business. othe
sse are often brought about by to I'll
e-awake enterprisine merchants ton,
other business men. Necessities then
make life happy are offered at be Il
9ain prices, and other inducements the
buyer and seller. The same
2ipIe holds in religion, only the 81
! is a hundred-foId greater, for men .S'' IT
rally seek their physical ease and q Y
being and easily forget that the HOe 4
test good is the souls peace and '''7 i
perity. NIo"
~ frieods ,.aI insec
'ush Of business for at least two l T.
IS, beginning the 18th of June, "s'os
eyary man cal Il at tb
,,aIIv and ,bo no1l.I:ru S''o q destrl
nv
we not seek a higher and broader "er {
or the h;n. ..L:-L visors
, and sn;r;h,.I ...If~I ''' and p
each pitch our lives on a higher tit any
it,de r. Cod 49, 'N'''I III furthe.
consciences and enable ~"
know Him better? viii we not ''''''
lrseIves in such relationship that 0''pS'
ay be brought to love each other ought
to understand each other better, hive y
lere may be less criticism and with h
Let's seek to bring a town
that will make US better hus- dollar
better wives, better neighbory. dogs
business men, better people in bile NJ
:, a revival that will make US
ike God in the spirit and pur.
I orr Iivnc --OLo1,, RG.L T..