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

the relations of God and men. We may
smile If We will at the childishness
OF Greek mythology, but we must not
forget that the greatest mind in Greek
history gave themselves to the task
of teaching benighted human mines
the great theological truth that the
soul OF man is immortal
Greece was invincible in the world
of activity as long as her greatest
men eschewed the carnal and rose
like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to
the high plane of elevatins the spirit
ual relations of the race to the place
of highest importance in the minds
of the people High ideals in the rights
of matrimony won its victory over
liberalistic nations regarding the
rights of lust, when the heroes OF
Greece razed to the ground of SEN
sual Troy, and returned to her proper
husband the offending Helen. The
Creates Creek literature. art, sculp-
ture and architecture was inspired by
Greek religion The battles of the
greatest Greek philosophers were IN
their war for the overthrow of the
carnal and the fortifying of the spir-
itual.
In the meantime a chastened Acne
as, who had learned the folly of sem
suality by his own experience,
brought his son Ascanius to the Ital-
ian shores, and We find the young Ro-
man race prosperous as long as she
struggled against pomp and splendor,
and fought Tor the simple life and po-
Utica! liberty. Can you doubt the
cause for the downfall of Rome when
you remember that the great Caesar
fell under the sensual wiles of that
vile and lustful siren. Cleopatra, and
at the time Of Augustus thousand
! ballet dancers of the Saome sort were
prosperous on the stage of Rome?
| Many have wondered how the free
distribution of grain in Rome was so
closely allied with the downfall OF
of Rene, but it was the age. old mis-
take of pampering the carnal to
mystery over the spiritual. Next Chris
tianity came il to the fragments of
this decayin2 e'lpire and brought
from it the lest of all that Rome
had learned to the fierce tribes OF
Barbarians in Northern Europe, who
and best of thoughts, and as Rome
sank in decay the Germanic tribes
arose with their love for home and
their high regards for womanhood to
resist the tendencies to weakness and
decay that had taken such a deadly
hold upon the Latin races. These
hardy, fearless men became the fore.
bears of the later sturdy sons of Prot
estanlism, and when Martin Luthe.
arose in righteous indignation and
posted his defiant theses on the door
of the church at Wurtemburg he gave
not new doctrine but fought against
the downward pull. Wesley in England
demanded firmer resistance to the
weak and vicious tendencies of his
time. Preachers as barkeepers were
not in a position to minister wisely
and well to the souls of dying men
and women. While others might work
on in their easy pastorates and enjoy
their easy living, Wesley in England
and Knox in Scotland preached Wig
orous gospel that must resist every
animal tendency 1t was the age-old
and ever recurring protest against the
downward trend.
My friends, We hear much about the
classes in society, but | say unto you,
There are only two classes: those
who lift up and those who pull down.
These are graded within their respect