Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

ing liquors in relation to their physical.
mental and spiritual life. The re-
searches of the scientist have confirmed
the attitude of His disciples who have
fought the use of alcohol as beVer-
age because of its tendency to make
slaves of men and destroy the splr-
itual life of men and women.
The progress of the temperance cause,
which in the closing days of the last
Congress obtain the two significant
victories of the "bone-dry'' amendment
to the post office appropriation bill that
excludes all liquor advertisements from
the mails after July /. 1917. in dry
states and prohibits the shipments by
means of interstate commerce of Ii
auors into states which prohibit the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic bev-
erages and the prohibition of the sale
of intoxicants in the nations capital
can be traced to the teachings of the
Christ. whose fundamental principles
have been applied to the liquor traffic
and caused it's gradual curtailment and
threatens soon to make even the whole
world dry.
When students in the public schools
commenced to learn the facts about al
cohol being a poison and unfit for use
by man or beast as a beverage an en-
lightened public opinion was created
and developed.
The Masters message had been ac-
cepted by many whose faith lacked
tried to fill their minds with correct
ideals of the kingdom because he knew
that they would not be able fully to
understand His message until after His
crucifxion, when the evidence that the
Holy Spirit would furnish and His in
depreciation of Christ would establish
fully His union with the Father and
His power to free men from sin. He
welcomed every indication of faith in
Him. because the fruitage of personal
fai RI oil 1N,y
discipleship. would secure freedom.
The new disciples held to the ancient
views of their ancestors and We're look
ing for political Messiah Had Jesus
been willing to accept that part He
would have stirred Jerusalem with a
patriotic spirit that would have de-
stroyed forever the tyrannical power OF
the Roman empire over his fellow
countrymen.
Jesus insisted that freedom was not
a matter of birth, but of moral affinity
which is due to His work as the liber-
ator of men, securing for humanity
emancipation from being bond servants
Of sin. 1t was difficult for them to see
this because of the moral bondage OF
ancestral traditions and teachings
They did not see how their spiritual
parentage was the source of the antip-
athy to Christ. Although their his
tory recorded their birth as nation OF
fleeing slaves, they denied they were
ever in bondage. like the avera &c
drinker of Intoxicating liquors and
sinner does their slavery to habit and
vice. Sin binds mems minds and en-
slaves their wills even when they are I'M
conscious that it's power over them
holds them in it's control. The law OF
habit is chain of iron that en-
shackles the soul. Christ Jesus came
to remove the letters of sin by i'm
planting into mems minds the concep-
tons of sin and the grace of God that
gives freedom to the sinner and turns
the religion of drudgery into a de-
!ightful service, not of compulsion, but
of privilege.
They rejected the freedom which
Christ offered to give to them even
after He unveiled to them His su-
periority over Abraham and His equal
ity with God, which gave power to His
promises and atonement. They lacked
the moral affinity with Jesus and would
have punished Christ for blasphemy if
God had not hidden Him from them.
They recognized the Master was claim
ing that He was God, and this is the
basis of the Christians hope.
The personality of Jesus is the key
to the Christian faith. He has secured
freedom for men. securing forgivness,
loosing of the guilt of sin and releasing
them from the penalty which is their
due. Political, social, industrial and
individual freedom are all possible only
by following the light of the world that
alone will lead men into a perfect
liberty,