The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-06-12

| along lines OF art, architecture, litera-
ture, and the sciences. You will note
that the Semitic races include the
| Assyrian, the Bdbylonian families. and
other leading people cf Asia Minor, to-
! gether with the most powerful races
| of old Egypt. One of the leading
tribes of early Greece, and the one
| that was most closely allied with the
| literary development of the Gleeh ma
ton, was kindred beople to the Sem
| ties. Greeks were prosperous as long
as these high ideals had an import
ant place in their efforts.
But out of these kindred peoples we
find God choosing a people by the
selectiye methods along the same
lines, followed by Burbank in his
training of his vegetable specimens
We find God selecting Abraham
from among idolatrous people because
! he was a man who would strive
against the downward trend He was
a man of great faith, and being such
he was chosen 10 lead the family of
God ont above the carnal onto a plain
as much higher, in ethical and spir-
itua atmosphere, than the surround
ing people, as the Judean hills, or
even Mt. Hermon towers above the
Dead Sea plain.
Next IN the regular line of selection
comes the brilliant young so of
Isaac. He was keen and intelligent
and he was willing to trade a mess
of pottaee for birthright that meant
spiritual and intellectual preierment.
See what an important place eating
had in the moral and spiritual uplift
of the Jewish race. The Hebrews were
put upon the most wonderful diet for
a whole nation ever known TO the
worl dof science Such diet is this
that its purpose is patent, for it avoids
the meats that would produce the
maxim of self control. Its result is the
wonder of the ages in the racial in
teerity of people who have lived for
nearly twenty centuries without
government OF its own, and whose
racial characteristics are still as
marked as those of the Jap or China
man, whose ancestors lived as hermit
nations till late in the last century.
The very evident purpose of God was
to raise the spiritual in his people
to a decided mastery over the
carnal. Even in the very beginning
Of the races, as nation, their Egyp-
tan slavery came upon them for their
failure to live up to this high ideal.
They were in search of food for the
flesh, 70 the forgetting of their high
calling in the land given to the great
patriarch, Abraham. Their greatest
sins in the wilderness were the yield
ins to the carnal and crying for the
flesh pots of Egypt. The most notable
downfalls of the Hebrews as a nation
are found in their mixing with the
carnal and Goddess pleasure loving
neighbors around about them.
The carrying away of the Northern
kingdom by the Assyrians was the re
suit of a combination with kindred
nations in foreign quarrel.
Daniel showed his real greatness
when he refused TO destroy himself on
the kings luxuries. A man who can
conquer his animal appetites and
avoid self-destruction by luxury in an
age of prosperity and fast living, can
more tldn tdllle lIOllS anu rise lO ulSH
political preferment, he can rise to 4
sweet and satisfying companionship
with mis- God and prove permanent
benfit to his generation In the periods
in which the Hebrews yielded to the
sovereignty of the things of time and
sense. they became the worst exam
pies of political slavery known in the |
pages of all history. The toll of the !
building of the hanging gardens OF |
Babylon, the building of the Pyramids
of Egypt, were the tribute they were
called upon to pay for their servility
to the flesh. Babylon tottered and fell
in the stencil of her carnal decay, and
Parsia went to her ruin in the sepul-
cher of her lavish and extrayagant