Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-28

Icumstances and misfortunes. Did
you ever lie? Did you ever steal
just a little? Did you u e call any
one a name? 1 know Of a case where
a youth was thrown into jail for CALI
ing a Jew a "sheeny" and our jails
are most unfortunate in being GRIM
Matchmaking institutions, rather than
criminal reformatories as they should
be. think this is largely because
we are looking at the criminal from.
the wrong point Of view, taking it
to be our business to puaish, when
we should help.
Mental and Moral Crfpples.
Let us not forget either that many
OF these are but mental and moral
cripples, and that there is no more
reason that we should punish them
than that we should go into "a hos.
Epital and punish the sick and Grip
pied there. do not believe we
should leave such. at large, n
more thanNone with a contagious dis
ease, or insanity. They should be
taken care of and 1t is our place to do
the best we can to Iring them out OF
their pitiable condition. Every Jail
should be a hopsital reformatory, and
every jailer should be a physician
and lover of souls.
Greed That Kills.
Blu 1t is greed that kills more peo-
pie j nthis country than any thing
else. There are thousands OF muir
ders that hide behind big corpora
tions and take lives by the tens nf
thousands, men, women and children.
Moses had Agood law that when an
OK gored a man OF woman to death,
even though the owner did not know
about it, the OK was put to death.
But If the owner knew that the OK
was wont to push with his horns in
times past, then he not only lost the
OK, but suffered the penalty of a muir
fderer himself. Apply that law today.
Listen-Listen!
Maybe you are rubbing your hands
and congratulating your self that this
commandment does not apply to you.
you behind any big corporation.
Listen. If you give your consent
to any institution or greed that MUIR
ders you are ;.lso a murderer.
Here is the institution Of liquor
surely it has caused many a death.
Not only when the blood was hot and
the temper uncontrolled, but worse in
the children born half murdered.
Again. Every day you fail to stand
for that which is highest, you stand
for that which Is low and murderous.
We read of a life lust lost In the
city. Every day that you and I did
not do our best we helped to make
that thing possible. Every day we
crime.
Measuring Up.
How do we measure up to this
commandment? Are there any good
men and women who have stood for
the best of the community whom we
have crucified by our selfishness?
Listen There is many q husband
numbering his blessed wife by I'M.
faithfulness, and many a wife doing
likewise to her husband There are
some things that stab worse than
knives Or poison. There is many a
dear old father and mother being
sent to anSuntimely grave by faith
less children. Children who on the
funeral day will place on the casket
Ia large floral design ITO Dear Faith
err or ITO Dear Mother when over
their own heart must be written In
scarlet letters murdered" How do
we measure up?
Interpreted by Jesus.
[sg Tno,,. M; ,t1r,r,,of a nj 4t,ir = - :. Z "a
ment for us 1900 years ago. Murder
begins not In the knife nor in the
poison, but in the heart. "Out Of the
heart are the issues of life. He
that thinketh evil against his broth
err is already In danger Of the judg-
ment." Hate and murder are syn.
onymeus. It's the same tiger. Here
are two tigers, man eaters, pulling at
the chain, that is hate. The chain
of one breaks and then we call II
murder, but it is the same tiger
Thou shalt not hate Do we meas,
ure up?
OF course we can. 1t is a dis
grace to keep hate in our lives, when
Jesus stands by anxious to take ii
out. How$sdoes He do I'll? i do not
know. Be He does as thousands and
thousands can testify, thousands
even in this day whose lives are true
and who have not broken this com;
mandment. And the reason we all
are striving upward, out of the brute
into the kingdoms OF kindness and
love, is because ia u midst is He,
the Christ, who on the could
say, Father forgive Them We need
to pray.
WHERE MONEY GOES.