The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-11
Men Who Are B0ndservants Of Sin
Flatter Themselves That They
Are Free.


The truly free are they alone whom
Christ makes free. Free to love in
stead of to hate; free to meet the
meanest man with a smile, having ris-
en- by a liberation of which he knows
not, above his love level of narrow
ness and prejudice Love is the full
filling of the law" and he who has
been made free to love as Christ loved
will never need restraint He will
know no abridgement of his liberties,
for to him the service of God through
the service of his fellows, is the goal
OF life, and such a goal will never find
any barriers by law.
This real freedom is found at Cal
vary's cross, and the pierced hands of
the Son of God, the son of man, alone
which have been forged for our undo
ing All admit that real wicked men
are servants of sin, as Plato says,
"They are like a shellfish, and can
never move up or down but in their
own prison which they constantly
carry around with them. They are
thus so straitened through carnal
desires that they can not stretch them
selves nor look beyond their horizon
of time and sense. But 1 hear some
one say: II do not believe in per-
sonal devil" You do not? Well what
have you gained for the world or your
self by your liberal thought? Well
then drop the initial letter and you
have Evil" left Do you believe in
that? Eyes, with restrictions. To me
all evil is due to arrested development
defect of will, inherited traits, environ
ment and vacancies as yet untitled by
virtue" O. l see. Then of course, the
cross is of no value to you, for before
l can persuade you that Christ is your
Savior, you must realize that you real
ly need a Savior 1t is this thought
less unbelief that is like a fostering
cancer, eating its way to the heart OF
the modern world.
Out of it comes the oppression OF
the strong by the weak, the worship OF
might for right, the fear of nothing
but the hell of money making; the sac
rifice of human bodies and souls for
little better than a murderous struggle
for existence; the fact that one has sc
much more than he earns and another
so much less. Out of it comes the mo-
dern restlessness, the feverish paint
ing for excitement, and a poisonous
atmosphere of pessimism Out of il
comes the utterance of a man in bust
ness, concerning his competitors, that
any means of getting ahead of them in
securing a deal was perfectly allow
able. Out of this infidelity comes the
conception that honesty has its stages
or grades. There are no grades tC
honesty Like Chastity it either is OF
is not. Thank God for my Scotch
Irish fathers frequent counsel to his
sons, Boys be honest if you are no
worth a dollar" Where virtue Of
honesty are sacrificed, character goes
down and the letters of eternal nigh
are forged. THE night of the mind
the night without star" as Confu
cius calls it. He who believes wha
Christ lived and died believing, will
discover himself enslaved to sin, t,
passions, to prejudices, unable even t,
do the good he would and will believ
with Robert L. Stevenson that, "Mel
are not damned for doing wrong, blu
for not doing right" Thus he will
cry out, 90, for a man to arise in me
that the man l am might cease to be.
To know the truth as it is in Jesu
Christ, to live the truth, makes tn
man, the community, the nation free
To depart from the truth in conduc
thought or life, is to forge the fetter
of eternal enslavement Only Chris
can make us free.