Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Sunday school lesson would not to-
day be studied by millions, for there
would have been no Sunday school
and no church. The Spirit who came
at Pentecost has been the sustaining
Strength of the cause of Christ. He
has made possible the marvels of
Christian growth and victory. With
out Him, we should not now have
the host of holy men and women who
are the salt of the earth. The Spirit
is the Enabler who has qualined the
Church.
What Ais the World
Ask the wisest living philosopher,
the keenest student of our own
times, what ails the world, and he
will make an answer comprehending
all the answers that we heard wrung
from the lips of the people on Fifth
avenue - "Carnality." The world is
fieshly- minded. "They that are after
the flesh mind the things of the
flesh" For the mind of the flesh
is death"
That is what ais old Rome, to
which city the Apostle Paul sent the
letter that we are studying to-day.
In truth, Rome died of the disease
called carnality. Some saints, even
in the household of rotten-hearted
Nero, survived by the law laid down
by Paul; for there is no soil too foul
for the growing of holiness. What
allied Rome also ails Philadelphia
and New Orleans and Nashville and
Toronto and Chicago and Omaha and
New York. They are carnally mind
ed. They yield to their baser nature,
rather than to their better.
While ! am aware of possible ma
tional perils from without which
may await North America, at the
close of the present war, L am less
concerned about military unprepar-
edness than about spiritual unpre-
paredness. The material-mindednes
of the people is more to be feared
than any foreign navy. Our fieshly-
mindedness is a peril against which
all patriotic-prophets should cry
aloud. The quicksands of carnality
have engulfed more nations than
ever fell before conqueror's sword.
Would that upon the walls of our
proved word, 1.-THE mind of flesh is
death" The measure of ma
tion's life is the spiritual character
of it's people. There is more wisdom
upon the subject of true prepared
ness in this eighth chapter of Ro-
mans than in all the newspaper es-
says and editorials 1 have as yet
read.
The Call of the Times
No literature is so timely as this
Book which has survived the CEN
turtles. Clear, strong, unmistakable.
it's word rings out to our own time
that ito be spiritually minded is life
and peace" The message is, of
course, primarily to Christians. 1t
is the divine recipe for victory. BY
the given Spirit - clearly offered to
all disciples = the old flesh-nature is
to be harnessed. reined and bitted.
so then, brethren, we are debtors
not to the flesh, to live after the
flesh; for IL we live after the flesh, we
must die; but IL by the Spirit ye put
to death the deeds of the body, we
shall live. For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, these are the sons
of God"
A succinct summary of the war;
ring forces in the soul of man, the
"Flesh" and the Spirit is given in
Peloubet's Notes:-
"The flesh is that state of mind
which gives itself up to yielding to
the temptations of the body, which
makes temporal things first in i'm
portande, and uses its energies to
gain the luxuries and pleasures
which pamper our temporal bodily