Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-02-04
Seventh and Eighth Commandments
Discussed BY Rev. G. ]. Christensen

field. We know that and we are
proud of those men and women who
SO sacrificed and won for us.
But, did you ever think that those
men and women who counted so in
the days gone by, and whom we now
praise, were Cody men and women.
Church and religion meant much to
them. Did they believe in card-play-
ing, in dancing, in drinking? All
those things were going on then as
now, but they drew lines. They said
these things we do not do.
What Lines Do We Draw?
Perhaps they had seer that those
people who become prominent in such
things 500 have no time for relig-
ion, and perhaps they had learned
through the struggles of hardship
that God, and worship, means more
than all else.
What lines are we drawing? 1t is
the drawing of lines that builds char
acter. It's sacrifice that counts.
Today, at the end of the months the
bills r added up; so4much for clubs,
so much for dinners, so much for en-
~tertainments, so much for this big
doings and so much for that swell
affair, total, fifty OF a hundred, or
hundreds of dollars.
How Much for Church?
AT the end Of the same menth
comes the church pledge card. How
much a month for the church and the
carrying on Of the gospel Of saliva
ton in your church and community,
how much per week? Eve cents, or,
is it ten cents! And how much for
missions? Nothing! or, is the whole
thing nothing? What would you call
it? Religion is the protection of
home and childhood, the hope Of man
hood and womanhood. will a man
rob God and his own homer"
Many Honest and True.
| am not saying that all people are
thieves. No! no! Many are the
bankers who are true as steel; many
are the business men who would
rather lose all than falsify; many are
the homes where they are still taught
these grand old wecepts Of Gods
laws and still live them. They are
the upholders of the nations. But, as
Christ said THE whole need not q
physician It is the sick. We are
thinking today Of the sick, of the
many who break Gods command
ments and are lost, and cause others
to be lost with them, and make these
problems confronting us.
Great Practical Question.
The great practical question then
is: What can we do, that these law
breakers shall again accept Him and
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This we can do. We a be abso-
lose il job, but even Though we
world and to our loved ones that will
mean Infinitely more than stolen
wealth or stained character.
Couldn't Stretch Conscience.
George Williams, the founder Of
the Y. NC. A., as a young mar was
working for a merchant who asked
him to stretch the cloth two inches.
Thank God Mr.. Williams had the cour
age to tell him that his character
wouldn't stretch that much.
ooh give me men to match my noun
tains,
Men to match my inland plans.
Men with eras in their purpose,
Men with empires in their brains.
Can BE Honest.
We can recognize the fearful temp
tations around us against honesty.
When the children of Israel lived in
Canaan they taught their children to
recognize the insiduous temptations
in their midst. TO be forwarned is
to be forearmed."
What can we do? We can gather
as individuals and homes and fam
lilies around the affairs OF God, and
have this s~e1ishness and greed taken
out of us, which is back of all this
dishonesty and crime. In Gods name
we can go forth to do our best to-
keep in step with His will.
Christ says Come Methinks I
hear him saying it from a cross upon
which he has been nailed even this
week, in Watertown. This devilish
materialism has blinded some Of us
worse than they were blinded there
on the hill Of Golgotha 1900 years
ago But. He is saying Come
30 love that will not let me go."
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