The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-05-16
SUNDAY SCHOOL NOTES
Side Lights On Next Sundays
elssson Tor Teachers and Puplls
Edited by Charles x. Meyers.
CRAWFORD COUNTY SO Il D A I
0cRooIs ASSOCIATION

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President -. Sears McHenry. Denisol
j.. 6. Dannatt. Vice-President. West Side
ec,.Vreas. .Chas, K. Meyers, Denisol
Executive COMMITTEES
F. L. Hoffman, Denison; VIM. lindberg
Cook, Denison; Frank Woolston, Deni
son: T.. e.. Virgins. Dow City.
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Elementary Grades -. $1,000.
Secondary Grade. T. 4. Hoffman, Denisol
-. Prof. B., J. still. Manills
..s Mrs f. W. Pierce. Denise,
Teacher rr ReH. s. G. rourteiiot. Denise,
e'"pe.a"'g Miss Manetta jorsensen. Val
Missionary Department ........ -.
........ Mrs. Anna Williams, Denisor
May 2O-Importance of Self Control
Temperance Lesson) lisa. %: liza.
We have this week one Of the quar-
terly temperance lessons. A talk on
this subject is timely, as there is much
of Importance going OH in Washing
ton just now as to making the country
entirely dry during the present war
There Is force indeed in the question
why grain by the millions Of BUSH
els shall be used for the making OF in:
toxicating liquors when men, women
and children are starving for its use
in tho making of brcad?" There was
q great cry went up that America
must feed BELGIUM, and much money
was sent for that purpose. Personally
my heart became luke warm toward
feeding the people of that down trod.
den country when it developed that
enormous quantities of grain was go
ing into liquor made in that kingdom.
There is an old adage, Reforms
move slowly" and this is well shown
in the progress OF the fight to reform
people from drinking intoxicating liq'
uors. The evils OF intcmperancc are
not new to public view. The lesson
verses of today were written many
hundreds of years before Christ was
born. and they portray just what ltG.
Mor drinking will do. 1t is told that
tho leaders" Of the people get drunk.
1t is said Even these real with wine,
and stagger with strong drink; the
priest and the prophet reel with strong
drink, they arc swallowed up with
wine; they stagger with strong drink.
they err in vision. they stumble in
Judgment "All the tables are full
of vomit and filthincss, so that there
is no place Clean" " f7
One recoils from this fearful, dis
gusting setting forth of what intoxi-
eating liquor will do as told by the
prophet over twenty-five hundred
years ago. What was true then is
true now, and all the world knows it.
Looked at from the point of view OF
a y total abstainer it seems without
reason why liquor drinking has gone
on these thousands of years, and still
has defenders to this day. Damning,
demOralizing, corrupting, it stands dis.
closed to view, and yet persons bclicv-
Ing themselves sane beg that saloons
continue, and drinking go OH unlam-
pered by law or adverse criticism.
We have all heard complaint that
tho bible is a failure because the M
tions protesting to be christian are
engaged in war Well, it is a sad state
of affairs, yet when one considers the
savagery, brutality in the human
heart, it is q wonder that wars have
not been more common and the killing
Of the innocents the rule. and not the
exception. TO teach men not to war
Is much like teaching tiger not to
spring on his food, and to lose his
taste for warm blood. Often it has
seemed as If this had been done. in
the case Of cubs taken In hand and
worked with diligently. but also III
most cases the time arrives when the
old savagery comes to the surface
and all the years of training go for
nothing.
There is verse in this lesson which
tells Of gaining a given object with
'precept upon precept; line upon line;
here little and there a little" This
had been the way tho world has been
uplifted. There comes times when
things 80 with rush, but in the main,
reforms move very slowly and after
long patient labor. The line on line.
precept on prcccpt have been sown In
the minds of people byHthe press, the
churches, tho schools, tho public ad.
dress, and just now the harvest Of the
question is coming in. The
American nation will never 90 back
to the filthy saloons and the dcbauch.
cry which goes with them. yet there
are men decfnling those sinks Of In.
iq,lity and longing like the hog to wal.
low again in the miro. .. -
The best place TO reach the nation
is in the ranks of the children, and it
is thus that we have the quarterly
temperance lessons. In the Sunday
schools the teachers must not flag in
presenting tho evils of strong drink,
mover listening to the cry that is old
and threadbarc in argument" II In
the days of Isaiah the curse Of liquor
was known and the cutting off Of its
power has been delayed until now. it
will be long time before the thing
will be rooted out root and branch"
Never ceasing vigilance must be the
Of all who want to mako
tho temperance reform lasting.
How 10 Make Wise Purchases.
1t is quite q problem for the public
to know where TO buy its goods. All
talk plausibly, but some
ask higher prices than others. Some
are making constant effort to get
uo0d poOds at bargain prices and