Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-02-11
Final Sermon o. The Commandments;
Rev G. ]. Christensen Closes Series

Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor.. Amy Ne ID q
false Witness. Every individual is our
neighbor as Christ long ago taught
us. Rvery lie Is detrimental to all
humanity. 1t tends to break down,
the entire social organism. We are
together members of one great body
and any false testimony, though IT.
may seem to be q kindness to some
friend, is really harmful to that
friend andsto all, because 1T hurts all.
There isn't an organization of fellow
ship and brotherhood, there isn't "a
institution, or home or character, tat
is not hurt by falseko0Qs Ne aank
can stand lies. N Tsrcnant can
prosper on MISSIONER or later he
will be found out md the customer
will go to the more Ssnest piece. No
friendship, no home life, no prepar-
alton for work IN lies. Every lie
tends to put us back into barbarisncs
Every lie Means Death.
Every lie means death. We read
in the New Testament that Ananias
and Saphira died fer their lying
just 50 with us, every time we lie
something dies. Haven't you been
grieved with the Bhallowness OF some
of these "moderns" polished rattles.
How many dozen of them would 1t
take to make n good character?
MY! how some people like to carry
this killing stuff. The moment some
thing bad gets started there seems to
be plenty people to carry it on, on, on.
Many q man, many a woman, many q
boy, many a girl, is lost today because
of untruthful Islander. Surely there
is a Judgment for the go-ssiper-male
and female.
Didn't Knowl
When it is finally discovered that
the story vas untrue, and that the
slandered has fallen, though innocent,
and it is brought back to the one
who carried the story. almost invar-
iably the answer is: why. I didnt
know Its wasn't true, SO and SO told
me- That kind of an excuse is like
the loaded gun excuse, Didn't know
it was loaded It was his business
to know before he handled 1t. In
deed, we have no right to handle dan
/ gerous things carelessly. These COS
sipers are worse than drunken COW
boys shooting up a town, for they
go around shooting souls in the back.
True Character AS Arnor.
nc the persons upon whom such
stories were circulated were absolute
" clean, it might not be so bad; for
people would recognize them as false;
but they are usually told on some
poor neighbor who Is weak morally,
as most Of us are, some n strug-
Cling to get up out OF his faults and
blunders, with no armOr of character
or reputation to protect, and 1t takes
but q few words to kill them. Before
God such SANDER bearers are no bet
ter than some brute going into q hos
pital killing the sick and wounded.
Moses had a good law for that kind
OF people, too. When 9 story was cir
culated about another and found to
be false, then the tellers OF that story
were each to suffer thespenRfty that
EheAsupposad offender would have
suffered had the story been true. "A
pretty good law for us to apply to our
conscience today.
Known BY His Company.
The Bible warns US against false
hood all the way. II was by false
hood that Satan got into the garden
of Eden, and that is still his gate.
way into many a. life. Here I have
just read in the Oklahoma News q
most pitiable story OF a young man in
jail there with broken mind and
blasted life, Id terrible woe day and
night, q dope fend,-is there q more
pitiable class on the face OF Gods
earth than these dope flends7 But,
how did he become such? Answer,
BY lying to his parents about his com
pany and his whereabouts and his
doings. If that boy had been taught
to fear a lie more than death, he
may not have been: lost today. Never
lie. Never do anything that you
have to lie out Of. IL you are going
into company against the consent oil
your parents,-ten them SO. H you
are going to do questionable things
tell them so, and give the powers Of
righteousness a chance. It is Satan
that prompts you to lie and keep sec
ret. The lie Is his key to your life;
the secrecy gives him full sway to gel
You In his control. Never lie-God
cannot be with you then in the rest
of that chapter. There are times
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