The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-01
WHO WEARS THE LAUREL
lcr-c Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the
Young Peoples SOcietie>-C hri--
tian EndcaSOr. etC-fOr june 6:
Body Under. Soul on Top
Cor 9:s4-27


Billy Sunday one day outlined 10
me new sermon, which he meant
to call his 'Jekyl and Hyde sermon"
and he traced for me the growth |
through famous fiction of this ca OF |
the dual personality And it all goes
back. he concluded. TO what Pau. |
said about the two natures which he |
found in himself" This topic car |
ries US straight TO that subject. Every |
one of us is two. We are all Of us
| perambulating battlefields The
war above all other wars is that rag
ing within the consciousness OF men
| and women. between the higher and
| the lower nature Character and des-
| tiny are both determined by which
one of these two-fold elements wears
| the laurel of victory When spirit
keeps body in subsection. then all the
F., graces of the Christian life are pos
Slble: but when body is on tOp-When
iappetite drives conscience, and indul-
igence spurns intelligence-then all
the woes of INDUCED sin lie in wait
Shadow boxing" is a fad in ath-
letic circles nowadays But Paul
would have none Of it. Ia our lesson,
) with its forceful figure from the box
ing arena. he cries, $50 box |, as not
beating the air; but [ bruise my body,
and bring it into bondage" All of
which is only one way Of saying that
) the supremacy Of the spirit is SO i'm
: portant that it is worth suffering for.
l A price must be paid for emancipa-
! ton from the thralldom of the flesh
1 Spirituality comes not by mere aspir-
I alton, nor piety by pining: stern work
z is needed. Self-denial is the route
Ito l-Supremacy.
a Our luxurious age speaks cynicalls
e of the hair shirt and penaLceS of the
t ascetics. Our sensual cultivation O
t voluptuOus tastes removes us as fal
= from the mOnaStic type Of religion a:
e Lucullus was from Simeon Stylites
d No sweeping indictments are eve
q true, but it is not far wrong TO Sa,
:, that our modern fashions hail from
IS decadent Rome rather than from rig
IS orous Sparta The styles of appare
IS which women have of late accepte'
e certainly intimate that the claims o
spirituality and aesthetcism are sub
le Ordinated to those Of sense and ma
l. terialism. God send us prophets, wo
men as we'll as men. who VIII firs
20 practice. and then preach, the mol
I'd urgency of the claims Of life live
IN in the spirit. For the rocks on Whlc
A. ancient Rome went to ShipWreck al
j. now visible ahead of the ship of OF
le modern life.
Id Christians should be among tn
4 first to confess the sin and shame
n; the recent action of British churcf
I'd men in refusing to endorse the go,
lis ernment's suggestion Of the prOhib
a ton of the sale Of intoxicants.
two ecclesiastical convocations, hel
to in England in April the members r'
ke fused to abstain from alcohol Or
d, eminent ecclesiastic, flatly declare
at that to do so impaired his health
or What a deadly parallel this narrati'
he makes with the writing of the Apost
nd Paul, who, for his brethrelS SAX
ed was not only willing to fofego mea
h1rt olC to hn
an marks of the Lord JeSus-the st
e; mata Of the cross-no longer to
lr- found on the church? When Chri
nd tian leaders put appetite above spi
itual duty, then we must with DOW
ou heads accept such structures as tn
caustic comment from an editorial
The Philadelphia North America
ed "Clergymen in a flutter of agitati'
Ak lest they be asked to stop tpplin
,ur and a dignitary of the church putti
zee the state of his precious heal
a against the safety Of the empire
an surely these spectacles make one I
we gret that Gilbert and Sullivan ha
to passed away
So Only the reign of the spirit insul
nto the refining Of the appetites
de- Heaven has no crowns for wills ST
act rendered to wishes.
ire Every day in the gymnasiums
W We the great cities, one may find clas.
# ;, of men busly engaged in trying
out keep 'heir ooo!es III. Iney spe
The time anu eioIt ~ 'li5 uuts VI ~
M serving their health. Because Of I
nh fear that their muscles will grow S
and their arteries hard. they p
his themselves Iito ehI hohue - Pny
ible cal IdiheI hiS Ili IN M sr,
w. must be vigorous and sustained dr.
;a,, maintained by conscious purpose.
"a one neglects the reading of the higl
and iorHis ol ii'ei aeui ~ ~ -. ap.o
1eir ~ anu 'h0 ioouie'A 20. - y
in iheuitdlio' upoii opii Ilu "a
one tHeH VI d oiio . Soui w ,.
. minology Of religion, the forms
worship public and pricvate, W
fd40 called "exercises" That is the ri
,r.n- word They "exercised'' tie facui