Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-11-09
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

ance Lesson"
Lesson Text: Rom. 14:13-15:3.
gMemorize vss. 16, II.
Golden Text: 'It is good not to
eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to
do anything whereby thy brother
|stumbleth." Rom. 14:21.
I. Stumbling Blocks.
The whole argument against the
saloon may be put in these words:
Judge thee this, that no man
put stumbling block in his brothers
way, or an occasion of falling"
What greater stumbling block than
the saloon exists today? How many
men have been tripped by it! How
far and how disastrously they have
fallen! And every man who has
shared in giving the saloon chance
to exist, has really been guilty of put
ting "a stumbling block in his broth
els way" It's serious business. We
the just waking up to consciousness
eff our own real, even If unin-
territorial, connection with il. We
are beginning to repudiate our part
nership very vigorously. We have
determined to cut loose from any
relation to business which makes
man less a man than he might be (!
ii. Modern Warfare Against the
Saloon.
Science has enlisted against the
saloon. The Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal calls attention to the
high price we pay for maintaining
chronic inebriates. \ study was
made of 100 such men. They are
'repeaters," having been arrested
1875 times. Only 10 per cent were
steadily employed and 45 per
cent were not self-supporting when
at large. All of them We're a charge
on society. 1t is neither good econ
omy nor good morals to allow this
thing to continue.
Great economic forces are working
for n sober nation. Among the gen
eral rules in the Standard Code OF
the American Railway Association
is the following note:
THE use of intoxicantS by EN-.
ployees while on duty is prohibited
Their use, or the frequenting of place,
where they are sold is sufficient caus,
for dismissal"
There are some drink cures whicl
are helping men. Proctor and Gambl,
of Cincinnati have for years sent mel
to take the cure, men on whom no per
sGasion had had effect. and the re
suits have been encouraging. At til,
Ford plant in Detroit, where 10000
men are employed. there is untirin:
effort to secure sobriety. No attemp
is made to compel the men to SigI
the pledge. They are taught the re
suits of drinking. Mr.. Lee, the hea,
Of the sociological department say
emphatieally We'll do anything I,
help man break off the drink habit.
Striking stories are told of the result
attained. Miss Ida VI. Tarbell describe
it as follows:
They're making men, and the.
won't accept defeat. That they're hel,
TO this by Henry Ford is certain. Tel
the committee they'll have to CUES
again, he sent word in reply to a re
port that said a man was hopeless
and had better be discharged. DO yo
mean to tell me that great big con
Germ like this, with all the time an,
money it needs, must give up poo
weak wretch, that probably never ha'
a chance? Make a man Of him? Fin,
way"
Kansas has purchased $37,000,0O,
worth Of motor cars this year. Mean
while there has been a steady increas
in bank deposits. A Wichita ban
president wonders if the general pub
lie has found the reason. He says
Reliable statistics show that siste
state spends $24 per capita for liquO
per year, and that Kansas spend
$3.50 per capita. If | figure it cor
rectly this gives Kansas somethin
over $3S,OOO,OOO to spend each yea
which the sister state does not have.
III. Christian Liberty.
What is Christian liberty? A ma
ia at liberty to refrain from anythin
which Injuries his brother. Paul say
it is good to do this: 1T is good nc
to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
do anything whereby thy brothe
stumbIeth." OF course every christia