Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-03-11
IS A LOT Of GOOD.
LEFT IN HUMANITY
SAYS CLERGYMAN
BAPTIST PASTOR TELLS FLOCK
NOW TO LOOK AT LIFE FROM
ITS BETTER SlpE-orAER SUN.
DAY CHURCH SERVICES IN or.
TAWA.

A. the Baptist church last night
Rev. G. ". Chessmau spoke on Some
Things TO Think About" He said in
part:
Whatsoever thiugS are true
think on these things Phil. 4.s.
The pesiulst takes up the morning
paper and noting the glazing captions
that tell of murder. burglary. corrup-
t!ou aud crime. cries out Look at
that record What commentary on
human nature, lie does not think
about the unrecOrded good things
newspapers do not count news. A
preacher goes wrong, but ten thou.
sand stay right; bank president
wrecks bank but ten thousand are
OF unimpeachahle integrity: one hus-
band breaks the marriage VOWS but
ten thousand are loyal to the purity
and the love OF the home; one poison
tongue neddles the gossip OF com.
munity but hundreds magnify the good
points OF people
There's lot Of bad in the world
but there is also an amazing amount
III good, Think OF the heroic widows
struggling 10 keep their families 70.
sether; think OF the clean young men
with high ideals and ambitious to
make something of their lives. \
sure recipe for growing skeptical. hit.
ter. cynical and hard-hearted is 70
ruuck>rake and keep the mind tilled
with the ugly things 4 sure recipe
for moral shipwreck is to make the
luind picture gallery OF calnalites
sion. A recipe that insures magnan.
unity. tolerance, sympathy, unselilSh
ness and human helplulncss is con.
tinuous thinking about the good things
that crowd like sunshine all about YOU.
Read the life OF Jesus and YOU are
cultiyating the art OF seeing the good.
'ts0c "shS alhh > uia't'tl ms tIlt
gold in men His whole life was lived
ip human touch with men he loved
and tactiully led out into the good
they were capable OF.
1t is great thing to 90 thru life
noting how prevalent in the human
relations are the little loyalties. the
Ir al iit-h In 4,
ritice OF people. Private Peat saw a
man who came into the hospital with
q minor wound. The nurse asked him
Where Is your ovcrcoat" His teeth
were chattering with the cold as he
answered, My pal was killed back
there and he looked so cold lying
there in the rain. took off my coat
and put il over him
There are ugly things we cannot
camoufiage with a superficial philos-
ophy We cannot help seeing the bad
in people. How shall we think about
il? Think about it as something to
help the man to get away from. We
see ugly institutions and agencies that
contaminate and corrupt the youth,
how shall We think about them
Think about them as things TO re-
move, and do your utmost Jacob
Rits saw the vice breeding. crime de
yeloping CONNECTION of the east side
New York He saw them as ugly things
10 remove. He vas instrumental in
getting park IN the heart of the
Sums. The war is something ugly
Now shall we think about it? Think
about it as something to see thru to
the freedom Of the world Think about
our boys as soldiers OF democracy
fighting for a peace which will be last
ing, for brotherhood Of men
Let Us think about the great eter-
nalities and our relation to them
Think about this: The wages OF sin
is death There is no escape from
sinful living persisted in. The penal.
~ is bound up with the transgression
nor is il the arbitrary ruling of an
infinite God. Sin doesn't pay. Be
sure your sin will find you out. 1t is
evolution backward; II is movement
away from all that's pure, true and
good. II is the highway TO hell.
Think also OF the companion
thought TO the above: but the gift
Of God is eternal life thru Jesus
Christ our Lord. II is life eternal
here and now to know Jesus. Il
means happiness and peace to have
this gift Of God. It is being wha, con
science tells all of US We ought to be
it. We are Jesus Christ's men. These
are things to think about.