Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-01-21

.binga ara trne whatsoever things are honest. whatsoever things are just, what soever things are pure. whatsoeNeE .ilns sI are lovely. whatsoever things are .. sooN report; If there be any virtue, ana II 'is+ be any praise. think on these tl'ii'sS Philippians. ", g.
 There are today more people than ever before asking the question, w nat is right?" They have been teo to ask this question by an arousai ol con science from lethargy that at one time seemed to be as binding as prison chains. Tn 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 righI?s is asked not only in persohai morals. but in the larger affairs oi life, and to the extent that there Is greater effort for higher standards of morality and of religious pfac- tices
 The question Is an old one. It nas been asked by man since first he kne"
 
 tinguished from wrong. It has been discussed in all its phases, and St' Paul in his letter to the Phlllpplahs exhorts them in the words of our text He els 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 peru- nent today as then. and his definition as complete Let Us first consider men, not things.
 \ great many men are true so Tar as their standards permit them to De. There are others who seek constant el- ovation of standards so that they may be nearer the ideal true man. To pc a true man means to be truthful ID 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 furtheiance 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 a 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 thai 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 If anything, they are just to the point of generosity and i have the satisfaction of knowing that they have given full value or full credi, 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 ob- noxious They think good, and as the . thought is the father Of the act, they , act we'll 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, jus, and pure, men whose thoughts arc always upward. are men of good report. They
 have unassailable regulations support cd by unimpeachable characters. They ask the question, What Is right?" from the innermost recesses of their 1 souls. and answer 1t with all t!,e en- , lightenmen, of conscience and spirit
 ual guidance that God can give them. They are always men of good report and always will oe so long as they i possess the virtues thai the apostle /. has enumerated.
 ] know that the apostle tells the | brethren to think of ihil-as that are l true. honest, pure. lovely anG of good 1 report. It Is by thinking q, these ] things that men become honest. true i and just. The apostle asks lsem not only 10 think but 70 reasen lor he says that If there is any slr;sa in these things, if there be any praise" thinking of them will bring tAtin into their lives and cause them lo ii. s,ata- 1 ful for the good they receive Men who think honestly, men who try 10 ha i conscientious gain !or lhemselye- gi. the sood thai can be iieri;,,;, .,,; right thought and pure thinking And that good is ability to think straight
 and answer correctly the question
 What b right?"
 Of course there is no absolute rich,
 Men do not think alike. They hsv. not the same standards. nor the sams conceptions. and yet they have ons standard of right and their conc.n.,os of that standard will always xrow hs. ter and better the more they studv :.
 That standard was set by Christ p.n,