The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-13

world OF sin and woe, and II IT were
more universally practiced among us
Satan would become a bankrupt fol
want of business
These awful wars in which the
nations are now engaged, would cease
at once, envy, jealousy, and revenge
would hide their heads falsehood
SANDER, and persecution would be
of religion would crumble to dust
the household of faith would become
what it should be,--one united family
in Christ
Pure and undefiled religion would
then be honored and glorified, prim-
tive Christianity would stand forth
divested of the inventions Of men,
in all majesty of its native lowell
ness.
That brings us down to the second
virtue, that of justice.
Justice is the prime minister
which is perfected by the law OF
truth, its purposes are to make men
wiser, better and therefore happier,
and if we add charity to justice it
is like one hemisphere of the brain
to the other. While. on the other
hand, mere knowledge makes no one
Independent, nor sets him free, but
combined, they work together for
liberty.
Justice in no wise consists in
melting out to another the exact
measure of reward or punishment,
which we think and decree his merit,
or we call his crime. The justice of
father Is not incompatible with for
giveness by him Of the errors and
offenses of his child, neither does the
infinite justice of God consist in melting
out our exact measure of punishment
for our human frailties and sins.
We are all my brethren, too apt to
form our own narrow little notions OF
what is right and what is wrong, and
insist that God shall adopt that to his
law, we measure off something with
our own little tape-line, and call 1t
Gods law Of justice.
Nor does justice consist in strictly
our conduct towards men by
the rigid rules of legal right, if there
were such community, which stood
upon the strictness of this rule, there |
would be written over its gates, as !
warning to the unfortunate desiring
to that inhospitable realm,
the words which Dante says are writ
ten over the gates of hell, LET those
who enter here leave hope behind"
1t Is not justice to pay the laborer
in the field, factory, or office, his
current wages, and no more, the low
est market value OF his labor, only
as long as we need him, and he is able
to work, and then when sickness and
Did age overtakes him, to leave him
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God will visit with calamity, cor
DOration, community, state or ma
ion, that will practice that kind OF
Justice.
Justice divorced from sympathy, is
selfish Indifference and even the ants
md bees give each other assistance,
hen | ask you, is there not a greater
of us who are created in
he image of God, to regard His law
If Justice, And do unto others as
We would they should do unto us"
That will bring us to friendship, or
'rotherly love. Pure friendship is a =.
fright flame, emitting none of the
moke of selfishness, and its origin
$ divine, its operation heavenly, and
Is result enrapturing to the soul.
Even in friendship we must be eau.
ious, caution has been termed the
aren't of safety, but it has been often
affled by Judas kiss.
Let adversely come, and then we will :
now who are our true friends and
rothers. Many will probably be sun
hine friends, and when the cloud of
overly and distress hangs over you
ley will desert you, but that is not
rue of an Elk, he has learned the
,sson of true friendship. =
Such friendship should bloom in the
cart of each of us whether we belong -
, this order or not. 1
Again, no one can be truly happy
ithout a friend, and no one can know
hat friends he has until he is un-
appy. Also where persons are united
lie bonds of genuine friendship, there
nothing. perhaps. more conducive
felicity, it supports and strengthens
lie mind, alleviates the pain, and rem
ars the present state more comfort.
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Lastly: Friendship is TO he beneyo-