The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-22
DR.. TUPP[R'S
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uaIns presented .. uAIs deep tAlhAei
ana suuent. r.acA lecture unIolds
1,M beauties ia this the greatest "a
ain DooAs-lhe Blue. nis lecture,
/ The Bibles Matchless Ideals, Was
con. bineu with the "Dibies Social
Message, I.rming message luil o.
me thoughts. The matchiess Ideals
OF conduct and character in the
bible are stimulus TO man, as
ideals play great part in our char
aller and achievements. Three great !
patIUns-the Greek, Roman, anu |
American-ar each developed along
tire line OF her ideal. The Greek ideal /
was OF beauty in human form--fault- |
less men and women. Study the old
Greek artist and sculptors and see
how closely they followed their ideal /
and how well. The Roman ideal was
valor, courage, obedience to law
this is the ideal of the German CT to-
day. The American ideal is pure
democracy republics have been
formed since we took this as our
ideal. In individual life we must
have an ideal if we would build
thigh. uplifting ideals for develop
luent. The finest ideals in the
world are found in four documents
the Ten Commandments, Book OF
Proverbs, Paul's ode on love, and the
Sermon on the Mount. The com
mandments, how simple, yet how
profound. II we eliminated the rest
of the Bible and the world followed
this God-given code, it would revlu-
tionize the universe. The Book of
Proverbs. the most wonderful code
O.. moral and ethical knowledge,
written by the wisest man, Solomon
with the wisdom given of God, live
up to the teachings of this book and
you will be am example study its
proverbs and they will stand cut as
beacon lights along life's pathway
for character is the chief end living
love of truth is the end of science
. ,f ,nl; a;n
Paul's ode on love tells us what re.
ligion is-not doctrines, not a mys
teal faith, but lcye to God and your
;, fellowman. Study and apply this il
:. yur life and you will be a power il
. the world; be more eloquent in sym
, rathy and love and you will be {
;, Tray cf Christ-life life. In the Sermon
on the Mount, Christ holds up The
o lofty ideals of love. How love mus
, lift che up; love must be generous
. self denying and pure giving us tn,
= Golden Rule of conduct DR.. Topper
a passed now to the social message o.
:, the Bible The most important dis
) corery is the social conscience, mer
r. deeply interested in social psycolog,
! land social ethics; we are studyin
!, the masses there is social unrest
q Christianity has an important par
n at this crisis; men are applyins
n Christ's teachings to sociality. Eigh
II Of the novels of the day having tn.
7, widest circulation have the char
, acters from the Bible, or Teachings
OF Jesus applied to little children
"a women and the poor In china ar,
$50 million graves in 40 years, bu
never tombstone to little child
they are not thought of; Confusciou
never took the little ones in hi
re- arms and blessed them. Franci
" Xavier. the Catholic missionary. ha,
is the needs of little child very nea
e, his heart-he got this from Christ
re A blessed religion that loves an,
~ saves children.
es
Christianity has lifted woman I
the high plane she now occupies. |,
this our civilization follows Christ
the son of a woman When the III
tanic went down men stood back an
raid. Let the women and childre,
IN be saved" This could not have han
s. pened in Japan. for the law is "sav
n the men first as they are some use
to The Old Testament is remarkabl
~ kind to the poor as is shown by quo
ne tations from the Le,itical laws. /
he we had our ideals from the Bible an
ny carried them out in our daily life
he there would be in the family kind
a, ness. socially there would be eour