The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-04-29

ror tne sake OF Cne LAMBS To-Day;
If the lambs are lost, what a terrible
cost
Some Sheep will have to pay"
Some foolish people reproach the
church for having more women than
men in its membership, but they for
get to reproach the saloon for having
more me than women, and they
scarcely reproach men for occupying
nearly all of the tens of thousands of
cells in the prisons and penitentiaries.
To say thtat the men are not all at
church, does not indicate that the
church is necessarily at fault, but it
does prove that some men are most
woefully at fault.
If the church is not all that it
should be, a really manly man should
seek to make it all that it should be;
and he will not leave that great work
chiefly to the women any more than
he will leave the great responsibility
of bringing up the children rightly
all to the mother.
Surely no sensible man would want
to see fewer women at church or few
er children benetting by the instruc-
tons andexample of worthy church
people; but all would be encouraged
to hope for future blessings upon our
land if more men We're to come for
ward in a menly way and take their
proper places in the church, and thus
be worthy examples to young men and
children.
The twelve apostles were all men,
and there was only one cheap agitator
among them, and he is remembered
only as the one who found fault with
the generous gift of a woman to the
Savior whom this same cowardly trail
tor betrayed for a small bride. John
1883
Surely it was not less to men than
to women that Jesus said,"Gc We
therefore and make disciples of all
nations"
Parents should remember that prac-
tically all church workers serve for
nothing, and that unlike the public
school teachers, they have no truant
officer; and no pupil is disciplined for
poor lessons; and that they them
selves are CHIEFLY responsible for the
right training of their children both
in the home and in the church.
Suppress that ugly fault finding
spirit, and cultivate a loving esteem
and appreciation; for otherwise no
child can receive much benefit from
the best efforts of self-sacrifcing
workers.
1t is a serious mistake which you
will realize later on, to assume that
because some have dropped the doc
trine of d~epravity out of their creeds
that therefore it does not exist in
modern youth.
One need not go to England and
read of the horrors around the army
encampmcnts to see that our very
civilization is mcnaccd by the lack of
proper religious training of our youth
who too often think that momentary
qualification and pleasure are all that
is worth while in life: for there are
plenty of tragedies nearer home with
out going to the theatres to find them.
The child needs information, but he
cannot be q christian without regen-
Grafton by the Spirit who began the
only real revolution Of human society
on Pentacost 1000 years ago.
The mind needs knowledge; but
this is inadequate unless the afrec-
tons. tastes. spirit, and will are
brought into obedience to the indwell-
ing Christ.
The only way to rid the world of un-
ruly men and boys, and other people
who cause trouble. is to lead them to
become real christians; for this is the
only panacea for the disorders and
lawlessncss Of the world which proans
for this redemption.
He who is law1ess toward God is
not a good citizen of any country, al
though he may have some of the quail
tiles Of god citizenship; nor is he the
best kind of a neighbor in any COM
munity:but he who is obedient toward
God is thereby of necessity a good
citizen Of whatever country is his
home, and he cannot but be a good
neighbor in any community.
Being a christian is just being
right before God and man, not only in
outward conformity to prescribed rules
of conduct but in the inner soul atti-
tude, emotions, and purposes.
This no man can be without the
help of God so certainly obtained by
repentance and acceptance of Jesus
Christ DC o,,r Evor,p1oy To,,Lor Co.,