The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19


cleanliness is next to godliness."
Morally, For. the body is the temple
of God, and if any man defile the tenn
pie of God, him will God destroy A
man cannot be self respecting who
leads a double life; he must live open
ly, and righteously. Self respect is
the noblest garment with which any
man may clothe himself; the most
elevating feeling with which the mind
can be inspired. One of Ph%ythogras'
wisest sayings in his Golden Verse
is, that in which he %enjoins his pupil
to reverence himself. Borne I'D by
this high ideal, he will not defile his
body by %sensuality, nor his mind by
servile thoughts. This sentiment car
ried into daily life will be found at
the root of all the virtues-Cleanli-
ness, Sobriety, Chastity, Morality, and
Religion. To think meanly of ones
self is to sink in ones own estimation,
as well as in the estimation of others.
AS the thoughts are, so will be the
acts. A man cannot live a high life
who grovels in an immoral sewer, and
his own thoughts are none inspiring,
if he looks downward at all times.
! The very humblest man may be sus-
tanned by the proper indulgence of up
ward glances, and poverty itself may
be lifted, and made light by self re-
spect. With the loss of this element
we are likely to lose all that makes
manhood and woman-hood true, and
%ennobling.
Let us consider lastly, but by no
mean least, the Negroes need of JUS
tice. At the same time we can make
it an appeal to our brother in white.
In the words of Davis, we will say to
HON first: Judge us not by nights to
which we have reached, but the depths
from whence we came" At the words,
we say that not a Negro in the land,
need hank his head in shame. The
Negro needs justice, not only from the
South, but from the North, East and
West. Our neighbors point to us from
every side with a finger of ccusa
ton, saying; I'VE have less morality,
less intelligence, less energy than
they, and in fact less of every thing
that tends to make the race progress
sive. This saying is in toe many
cases accepted, because of our teach
ing in the past-that the white man is
superior in every thing. If they
would only stop to think who's hands
transformed the wooded continent to
J. tAn hoo,,t;f,1 roplAp that - NOW ir
and how the springs of wealth, like
back-waters. have found their way in
to the white mans Golfers, by the
Negroes brawny sinews, these saying
would die out and fade away like the
morning dew before the rising sun.
"To be perfectly just in an attri
butte of the divine nature, to be SO tC
the utmost of our abilities, is the glory
of man,"-Addison. Man is unjust
but God is just, and finally justice
triumphs. '-Longfellow. If thou de
l sire rest unto thy soul, be just, h,
, that doth no injury, fears not to su,
fer injury; the ,~unjust mind is always
in labor; it either practices the evils
it hath projected, OF projects to avoid
the evil 1t hath deserved, |QuarreiS
THE only way to make mass of man
kind see the beauty of justice, is b.
showing them, in pretty plain terms
the consequence Of injustice sid
ney Smith.
Justice, when equal scales she holds
is blind
Nor cruelty, nor mercy, change hel
mind;
When some escape for that which 9th
ers die,
Mecy to those, to these is cruelty
Denham.
-Though with tardy steps
Celestial justice come, that step is
sure.
> Uneering is her bolt, and, where i
falls
: Eternal, will the ruin be.'-Hays.