The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-26

tragedy and suffering of life was on
account of fear. That it began ir
childhood and continued on through
the years. He said that the great
trouble with large numbers of people
was that they did nothing along the
moral and spiritual side of ife. And
the great peril to every one was do
ing nothing" The only safe way was
being on the aggressive and that
the spiritual was necessary for each
one if he did not want to lose ground.
Safety first" is all right as slo-
gan for the railroads, but no good in
the spiritual realm. God wants folks
who will venture. Some people never
make any friends because they are
afraid they will be betrayed and they
lose a good deal of the Joy of life.
The service of Christ requires risks
and makes people criticise unjustly,
but in the end it is abundantly worth
while.
We are hearing a good deal about
our boys and girls going to the bad
in these days and many remedies are
proposed. One man proposes social
center, another various recreations,
etc. But it ought to be understood
that neither a building nor recrea-
lions will ever save any one without
we have power from above.
The church will have to be careful
or she will spend all of her time dig
ging bitches for the water to run in
and discover that she has no water to
put into her bitches. The church's
business is to bring down the stream
from the mountains as we'll as dig the
bitches.
Swedish Lutheran Church.
At the morning services DR.. Os-
und spoke on the subject "The Life
If Christs's Disciples" as outlined in
The farewell address of Jesus in John
l6: 1888. He said that the life of
,he disciples of Christ, according to
The Masters own words, was life
If prayer-a life of faith and of
peace. Christ stated plainly that all
;hese phases of spiritual life were
% be anchored in Him alone. And
10 life of prayer, of faith or peace
S possible except the believer is
safely found Gin the arms of Jesus"
In the evening the pastor preached
IN James 1:27, stressing primarily
he words "Pure religion and unde-
lied before God" He showed that
nan is evidently destined for religi- |
us purposes, such as belief of re-
igious mysteries, worship of the SUI
rene God, discharge of religious
uties and a cherishing of religious
motions. The prime necessity of /
nan then, would be to make sure
hat he has "pure religion and thus
o have found and adhered to Gods
Ian of salvation for mankind, be-
ause loyalty to error would profit
o man.
DR.. Oslund then, by way of con-
rast, showed that pure religion is
OF a religion of superstition, a re-
gion Of self-righteousnes or a re-
gion of unrighteousness. "Some
eople nowadays make great deal of
eason and thought and science and
'ould bring religion in opposition to
cience or in conformity to the find
lgs of science. Such men have not
5udied either religion or science far
nough to know that religion based
n the Bible does not have to retract
single iota of its Scriptural asser-
ons, and that science after all these
ears of labor and spirited investiga-
on has tardily been forced to cor
,borate the simple Biblical truth as
lis was registered in the Holy Writ
lousands of years ago." Religion
I'D science has no quarrel with one
1other, but religion based on
leerless speculations, abstracts rea-
'nings; which ridicules all it cannot
1derstand, is a north pole of ice and
I'D sterility, perpetual winter in
e spiritual world, where nothing but :