Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-03
Editor S Letter Box
Foundation of Prohibition.

The liquor dealer errs, when he states
that Never during all the 60 years
has there been a time when the adj
voeates of prohibition could rest upon
their arms secure. owing to the in
cessant unrest and resistance against
the oppression on individual liberty"
The only thing that prevents the adj
vocates of prohibition from resting on
their arms is the activity displayed by
Satan's agents in endeavoring to undo
prohibitionists' work, and their knowl-
edge that whatever stands still, falls,
and that Christian motion must be
upward, and not downward.
When one argues from false basis,
the whole superstructure tumbles to
the ground. The foundation of pro-
hibition is Christianity. the practicing
of the precepts that will permit one
to consider another's well being as
EXACTLY AS IMPORTANT IN THE
SIGHT OF GOD AS ONES OWN.
These precepts Christ taught, and
practised and he gave the ONE
prayer to his disciples for their daily
use which includes the prayer to God
Lead us not into temptation"
God does not tempt men. Men tempt
each other. Neither does God permit
men to be tempted beyond what they
are able to bear, while they are faith
fully endeavoring to do His Will. The
prayer continues deliver us from evil,
for thine is the kingdom and the pow
er." The world is Gods and all that
is in it is His, and He has rightful
power over every creature in 1t. He
gave the ten comma ndments as equit-
able laws to govern our lives with due
consideration for the rights of others.
reserving to Himself the rightful pow
er of punishment, when and in such
manner as He deems wise, every trans
gression of these laws. God has the
power to deliver from every kind Of
evil, and He exercises this power in
behalf of all who ask Him to do so.
The Saviour was tempted in all ways
like ourselves we are told, BUT HE
DID NOT SIN. Gods spirit in him
gave him wisdom to know the right
and to do the right every instant of
his life. He came as the WORD of
God. God first had His law written on
tablets of stone. These were destroyed
because of peoples sin. He then re-
wrote the tablets containing the law,
the ten commandments. Christ came
as a LIVING stone, to interpret to
people as they needed or desired Gods
law, and to perpetuate it in THE
HEARTS of those who desired purity
of life. Christ simplfied the whole
ten commandments, which seemed SO
hard for the people to remember and
even harder to practise, into the first
commandment, "Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with ali thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind: and
thy neighbor as thyself, this one
law covering the ten commandments
with all the exigencies which might
arise for decision.
Christ's entire life was devoted to
explaining by precept and by act just
what this one commandment meant.
THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE
LORD" This one law was to give
ENTIRE LIBERTY and ENTIRE
JUSTICE and ENTIRE EQUALITY
to ALL" "Whom Christ makes free is
free indeed" The greatest oppres-
sion against individual liberty is the
favorfng of what will injure the safe
" or happiness Of the individuals, and
to bring temptation about them is in
direct violation of what must be the
greatest need of man. chat is. free
dom from temptation), since it was
so important that they We're to make
it daily PRAYER, Their will was
given to them by their God, as the
consequence Of their disobedience. and
their restoration of their will to Gods
win. through love for God and con-