Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-07-12
FOR WHAT IS A sCHooLH0USE
TO BE USED?
THE SOCIAL GAME.

THE SOCIAL GAME.
The Scriptures tell us to beware of
wolves clothed in sheep skin.
Humanity has at all ages been SUBJ
ject to being worked upon by misre-
presentations.
Black has been represented to be
white, white to be black, right to be
wrong, wrong to be right, non-edify-
ing to be edifying, etc. A thinker and
d thinker only guided by the Divine
teaching as given to us in the Scrip
lures is the only one who ever did do,
and ever will place things where they
belong; stamp things right and sail
his ship of life safely amid all mis-
placements and Misrepresentation.
From a purely psychological stand
point, from the inevitable law of cause
and effect ami, last but not least,
"what a person. soweth that shall he
also reap" every sound minded per-
son is aware of the fact that two
forces are working ON his soul, one
leading to edifcation and true happi-
ness; the other to degradation and UNI
happiness.
To dispute the just foregoing is to
soul in a person ard the existence Of
a spiritual world always bearing pres
tige either to good or evil upon the
human s'aul, which is impossible
With the foregoing remarks, which
are intended to awaken psychological
thinking and willingness to admit facts
that are within. the experience of ev-
cry sound miEled person, l shall pro-
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ly approved Of in our age and indeed
is practical feature of the social life
in our age, fully aware of the fact that
Judging from the grip on subjects, the
social games, have upon the public
that scores are liable to take the op-
| posite side, but l feel confident that
we still have quite few survivors of
that keen sense of critique required in
our age fully as much as at any other
time if not more in order to see things
as they are and give things the credit
they are entitled to.
I will now, trusting to your noble
purpose for humanity, your loyalty to
your duty as Christians and your log.
ical way of reasoning, put my subject
to you, my readers, in the form OF
questioning:
"fs that kind of mind and principles
brot about a person by study of the
Scriptures and the different branches
Of study in our school edifying as they
are if permitted to work right on the
mind and that of modern social
games, a great many of modern
shows cole i Skratthult," etc., the
same? Are both the foregoing kinds
working in harmony for the edifying
of the human soul or is it not a fact
that what the one is building up, the
other is tearing down?
Is it not fact that when we look
at modern social life, many things said
to be entertaining, enlightening and
edifying that they are wolves clothed
in sheepskin pure and simple Judging
from what is needed to edify the hui
man soul; are they not misrepresen
tations daily preying upon the less log
ical, less deep-thinking public?
Shall our schOolhOuses be used fol
a gathering place where the noble
work done by the church and the
school shall be blotted out.
Friends of prosperity and for edi
fication. AS the head of family where
the rearing of young characters IL
greatly in my charge, placed in &
neighborhood where I come respons
IDLY and as a taxpayer, seek Hgh'
on the subject, For What Purpose
Should Our Schoolhouses Be Used?'
and therefore appeal through these
lines to you trusting that you will thru
the Willmar Tribune and other papers
discuss the matter of the right ust
of the schoolhouse, always bearing IL
mind the Indispensable harmony be
tween church work, school work ant
the purpose Of any and all gatherings
in Christian country, viz: Edifica
ton.
Yours for success,
J. S. CHRISTENSEN.