The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-03

lesson is the Sunday ScnOOI recOSn-
ton of Worlds Temperance Sunday,
1t is Of a piece with the four temper
ance lessons a year, which. taught to
more than a score of million youth.
impress upon them in their plastic
state of mind the tremendous IMPORT
ance Of abstinence from strong drink.
More than that. this Sunday school
temperance propaganda associates
temperance with religion. linking 1t
up with the deepest impulses and in
hibitions of character; for the Sunday
school teaches temerance on the basis
Of the Bible.
Anybody who attempts to divorce
the history Of the progress Of the
temperance reform from the Sunday
schools effectiveness therein, would
be voted an ignoramus. The Sun
day hoo has put moral propulsion
behind temperance. 1t has promoted
an cut intelligence and a strong
conviction upon the subject. The
average boy and girl today can give
reasons for his or her hostility to
strong drink.
This means nothing less than the
ultimate drying up OF the springs of
the liquor business, if we were will
ing to wait SO long for the consum-
nation Of this reform. A word Of
counsel is needed in this connection.
No legislation, however drastic, upon
the subject of temperance can justify
the abatement of the educational and
religious propaganda. Thence comes
the real power of temperance.
Following the Billy Sunday meet
ings in Scranton, Pa, two hundred
starved out Of existence. The gospel
brings the mightiest motives to bear
for the support of abstinence. 1t de-
stroys the desire for drink. 1t pro-
vides pathological care for the drink
er. And with a strong hand it oblit-
crates the plague spots of drink, just
as the modern board of health abol-
stagnant water.
On The Sure Foundation.
One Of the grave concerns Of those
who are intelligently working for
temperance is to keep the cause upon
an enduring basis. 1t should not be
allowed to merit the accusation Of a
mere wave" or hysteria Or fad. The
temperance conviction should be
built SOlidly into the character Of the
people. Every community should
become so soundly Christian that the
liberation of a liquor business would
be impossible. When the tested prin-
ciples Of Jesus are made sovereign in
the personal life. then there is nc
longer a temperance question: the
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his social glass as inevitably as the
salOOn-keeper would put up his shut.
tiers.
:. 1t is significant that the Scripture
appointed for the days study is take1
from the great personal liberty
letter Of the New Testament, which
Dean Farrar calls '"The Epistle o
in these short chapters the though
, occurs, Stand fast in the libert.
whereWith Christ has made us free.
. " But this freedom is in Christ.
Forty-three times in this epistle doe
1.-THE name Christ occur and thirty
: nine Of these times it is Christ, no
The Christ, Christ the personal name
! Christ the aviour, the man Chris
. Jesus
!. Some Sure Guides.
: What was given to these Christian
a in ancient Galatia-a region in tn
). center Of Asia Minor that today is S
= sorely torn by poverty ~consequen
upon mobilization; and that was visi
months still good for our ow
= times.
Brethren, even if a man be over
% taken in any trespass. We who al
spiritual, restore such a one in
spirit Of ~gentleness; looking to thysel
lest tnOu also De tempted. Bear }
one another's burdens, and SO fulf
the law of Christ. For if a ma
thinketh himself to be sOmethin
when he is nothing, he deceiveth him
self. But let each man prove h
own work. and then shall he ave h
glory in regard to himself alone, ar
10 not of his neighbor. For each ma
II shall bear his own burden.
10 But let him hat is taught in tt
~ word communicate nnfa him tn;
e teacheth in all good things. He n
IL deceived, God is not Knocked: f
whatsoever a man soweth. that sha
ie he also reap. For he hat sowe'
re unto his own flesh shall OF the he.
w reap ~corruption: but he that sowe-
unto the spirit shall of the spirit res
e eternal life. And let US not be wea
in well-doing- for in due season =
he shall reap. if we faint not. So the
n as we have opportunity. let us wo,
that which is good toward all me
and especially toward them that a
20 of tho household of the faith