Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-02-04

In considering the seventh com
mandment, let us take it in its orig
inal meaning: Thou shalt not com
nit any impurity." That begins in
the heart. That comes home to all
of us. There is no quicker way to be
lost than by the breaking OF this
commandment, in the heart.
The childhood of today needs to be
warned against the sin of impure
thinking. The thought is seed to the
action, and the action is worse than
death. In the old days when they
valued purity more than physical life
they were far more safe than they
are today.
White Slave Traffic.
The white slave traffic, the most
stupendous and nefarious organiza-
ton on the face of the earth, has it's
source in impure minds. Every time
you or I permit a bad thought to rest
in our minds we become supporters
of this accursed rafic, and all crime.
Every day we live clean we strike
it the hardest possible blows.
If we would have clean thoughts,
we must needs have clean friends,
read clean literature, enjoy clean art,
and strive with clean ambitions.
God is the source of all that is
clean and pure and worth while.
Lord create within me a clean
heart"
"Thou Shalt Not Steal"
In this commandment Cod recog-
nizes the right of property. There
are many people now days who think
that the solution of most of u evils
would be found in the elimination of
all private ownership of property. But
it doesn't take much study to see
that that will not work.
Suppose / am trying to raise a field
of wheat. Another man is trying to
raise some hogs; he lets his hogs
run on my wheat. Another likes
mutton and kills a sheep | am trying
to raise. Another sees something /
am trying to a V up, and he helps
himself. Why, l just couldn't keep
anything. There could be n o prog
ress. We would be back in savagery.
Gods way, recognizing the rights of
property, is the only way.
.EE#rs.EE SpfiIl -a"iCSouiSSSs a-a=EGts
What means this spirit of laWless-
ness among so many children of to-
day as they destroy and steal with
free hand? This spiri among the
grown that a good bargain means
getting something for nothing; that
cce means to beat somebody?
Are we losing sight of the fact that
the only true bargain is where both
are benefited?
There never was an age when thiev-
cry was SO organized as today, and
that under modern names that would
almost make you think they were
charitable Institutions.
Three Successive Bankruptcies.
Perhaps the finest hardware com
pany in Oklahoma has been built up
through three successive bankrupt
.cies. (Three are all the law Of Ok
lahomaS,alIow, or there might have
been more.) What is that but steal
ing? The Bankruptcy law desn't re-
lieve a man of his moral obligation
tc pay his honest debts, as soon as ne
can.
There are more silk hated thieves
than you dare to shake a stick at.
The amounts stolen in the old ways
of highway robbery and housebreak-
ing are a mere pittance, compared
with the millions and millions stolen
under the guise Of big business.
Some Ways of Thieying.
When merchant pretends to sell
goods a yard wide and all wool, and
knows 1t is not, he is q thief.
When a man hires out to work for
so many hodrs and then shirks, he
is a thief. And with every other
thief counts SO much for the break.
ing down Of the whole social order
and with every other thief must stand
before God IN Judgment.
atGod IS not Knocked, whatsoever q
man soWeth that shall he also reap
GodIGiven Talents.
Come right down to it, all that we
have, all our talents and possibilities,
God gave us to use for his kingdom,
and when we adosnot we are rOhbing
God, and humanity.
We are obligated to this old world
to do our best in return for all that
has been done for us There isn't
blessing wei have today that hasn't
been fought for an many a bloody
the teachers reading circle course,
Mrs. Claude Case rendered two vocal
solos which greatly pleased her hear;
ers. The teachers listened 70 a very