Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-20


Brandeis theater to men only on THE
Inner Wall" His text was taken from
Epheslans iii; 14-16:
For this cause l bow my knee unto
the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that He would grant you to be strength
ened with might by His Spirit in the
inner man.
The pages of ancient history tell of a
certain Dutch city bombarded by the
Spaniards. The city was surrounded by
a great wall which gave the Dutch in
habitants a sense of security; and
against this wall the Spaniards hurled
their battering rams in persistent as
sault Finally. to the CONSERVATION of
the Dutch, the wall showed signs of
breaking.
The Dutch called a council of war and
decided to erect another wall inside of the
one which was weakening. All able
bodied men were drafted into service for
the purpose of building the inside wall.
Inch by inch 1t arose. and just as the
last brick was laid upon the inner wall
the outer wall gave way.
Through a breach in this outer wall the
swarthy Spaniards rushed. but they were
ing rams fell to no avail; the inner wall
was impregnable.
Now it is the business Of Christianity
to erect in the inner life OF the individual
a wall which will render that individual
safe from the assaults OF the enemies of
the soul.
Our Wen Bcing Constantly Attacked
We live our life in the enemys country
we are constantly surrounded by enc
mics to our well being. To use Bunyan' S
figure, the city of mans soul is con-
stantly bombarded at the five gates OF
the senses:
/. Physical-Disease is constantly seek.
ing to obtain strange hold through con-
sumption, pneumonia, cancer, paralysis
bacteria in the air, germs in the water
and in the milk.
g. Mental-What we have once seen we
can never 'unsee." The books we read,
the pictures we gaze upon, the things we
hear, these all pertain to the mental.
3. Moral-Organized society has seer
that the individual is surrounded by these
enemies; organized society has seen thai
the Individual needs protection. and has
built around the Individual certain cute
his physical, mental and moral well-be
ing. Some Of these walls are:
/. Legislation-The laws of society &C
as a constant protection to the individual
They specify what are his rights, level
penalty for violation. 1t would be har
shedding for the individual IL the laws o
society were rubbed from the statut'
books and every one left law unto him
self.
Education Against Ignorance.
q Education-Organized society hai
seen that ignorance Is soil in which seed
of badness grow with alarming rapidity
so it has set about the erection OF a wal
Of education about the individual.
All things being equal. the educated
man should be better able to protect him
self against the enemies of the body. tn
mind and the soul. and the individual /,
much safer when surrounded by the cute
wall of education.
3. Business-Organized society hai
seen that an idle mind is the devil
workshop. It has seen when men hav'
no business moorings. when they ar
without a job, many of the baser thing
come to the surface. Organized societ!
has as its ideal an economic order II
which every able-bodied man or woman
can reach that ideal.
Handcuffs base Elements.
& The Home-Organized society hai
seen that the influence Of wife and chill
drsn is one Of the most. wholesome In
fluences OF life. The stability Of society
virtue Of womanhood and honor OF man
hood depends upon the development o
a good home life. The fact is, the Low
Of a good. pure woman handouts tn
baser elements in the individual an
calls into being the noblest qualities
which until then have been asleep. Their
is no question but that society and IN
individual are better off for this cute
wall called the home
& Northumberland society Ia
seen that the love OF ones country is
wholesome force in the life Of an ind
vidual- History Is full Of stories OF mel