The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-05-27
SENIORS. HEAR FROM PASTOR
OUTLINE FOR THEIR FUTURE
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be steeled as good soldier for the
warfare of life.

be steeled as good soldier, Tor the
warfare of life.
-. The Battle Of Life.
When we think of the battle of
life we naturally think, of the out
ward struggle or environment, and
1.-The inward struggle of the soul.
E. 1. Let us regard the environment.
/ hooking back for fifty-five years we
Ecan see no year when the environ
ment was in any way similar to that
/ of today. All civilized countries have
shaped themselves or are shaping
themselves to the one burning CEN
trail fact, the necessity of meeting
the issues of this day and meeting
them successfully. The side which
can martial their resources and
moral to endure the longest will most
assuredly be victorious. To this end
it is essential that we all be drawn
together into the great harness of
today, bearing the weight of the
strap and the buckle, and willingly
pulling our bit until the principles
of Righteousness and freedom shall
prevail.
Must Change Life's Mode. : RI
We are coming more and more to
realize that in order to meet our OBJ
legation, we must change our mode
of life. In sense we are drifting
to the more primative life when peo-
pie did not have so much. SIM
plicity is growing more and more in
evidence, and people are growing to
be ashamed to be frivolous. And
it is not uncommon for people to
make innumerable excuses before
treating themselves to luxury. This
situation is not fad for day, but
it is a fact in our life, and if it
comes to bear upon us as It does
in England and France, it will be q
cause for investigation to see man
act wastefully or extravagantly.
There comes time when human
rights extend only as far as humanit-
les needs allow them to.
Influences at Work.
There are influences at work which
are deepening the life and expert
ences of the parent. The necessary
separations of this day has brought
more serious influence into many
a home, and the constant shadow Of
premonition has turned the parental
heart to God. Many parent having
seen the heroic flash forth in the
child as they willingly have gone
forth in the spirit of unseltish sac
rifice to do their bit have for the
first time been brought near to the
son and appreciated in sense al
parting the fullness of the sons
| place in the home. In a sense it is
the fathers courage manifest in the
child. 1t is what the parent would
| want the child to be. Living in
England years ago was a man. He
was a statesman who has remained
! until today somewhat of a riddle.
| He was a man who was compared to
| the sphinx in British politics. He
| was a Jew and arose to the very
| highest rank in the nation as a
statesman. When he was a boy or
little. more than a boy he wrote a
book in which he put all the religious
| confession that he ever made to the
world, Benjamin Disraeli wrote this
book called Constance Fleming. 1t
was the story of young man who
was brought up: in Ignorance of mis-
father, who as a great statesman was
| too much occupied with great affairs
| to pay much attention to a, young
boy like him, and the lad grew up
to youth in absolute ignorance of his
father. One day a messenger came
to tell Constance Fleming that his
father wanted to see him. Benja-
min Disraeli tells how the young man
| trembled as he crossed the thresh-
hold into his fathers room, and how
| looking toward his father he Won
dered what sort of reception he
would receive. He swung around up
1t, oh To- nd tn 10 n
gathered him up in his arms, and
told him that he was his son, that he
| was proud of him and wanted his
love, and that those big things which
he had to do were nothing to him in
comparison to the love he had for
| his own boy. Then Disraeli tells how
| the boy went out Of the room, hold
ing his head erect, feeling his heart
| beat high. Why, he had found his
| father and such a father as he was.
He was a thousand times the young
man he was when he entered the
| room. Such awakenings are happen
| ing every day in the hearts of par
ents and children, and it is the bind
ing force which is to keep faithful
those who are far separated. 1t is
| difficult for sin come between such
| tie and such deepening life is bound
to have it's leavening power.
| Battle of Environment.
On the other hand there is an
other influence at work, which has
come with these days of strain and
warfare, and it is to be noticed in
the environment. The world has
turned entertainment mad in it's de-
sire to throw off the horrors and dis
appointments Of the day, and the in
f1uence of the lighter strain is un-
dermining in its character. There is
nothing of endurance in it, but ra-
Their the tendency to turn all serious
ness into lightness. And as has been
proven over and over again in his
tory-after time of storm and stress
social life has so run riot, that
there has been a moral decay in spite