The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-10


world. Thus the war has indicated
the Church in its espousal of the
cause of temperance.
w. The Church has had a voice
the social evils. 1t has
recognized the urgency of the seventh
and claimed that
there could be no double standard IN
the question of the social life, one
standard for women and another for
men; and that both sexes were alike
under the moral obligation to be So
cially clean. There were those who
held that in this contention the
Church was advocating a standard
too high for attainment; that while
it was, in theory, beautiful. thing
to talk, in actual life it was not
practicable.
But what says the war? Our
government, recognizing that the
social evil had in the past slain more
soldiers and sailors than had
shot and shell, took immediate and
drastic measures to exclude the dem
icons of the red light districts from
contact with the soldier boys: Every
thing that could be done, has been
done by the government to nave tne
men in uniform live clean lives. Inc
result is, the records show that the
men in arms are morally better than
those in civil life. Proof abundant
has been supplied to show that VIOLA
ton of the seventh commandment Is
not necessity and that it is possible
for men as we'll as women to 1--we as
God has decreed in His holy COM
mandment. q.
Y. The Church has advocated that
men should worship God with a per
centage of their income. 1t has held
that every good and perfect GIT
cometh down from the Father OF
lights that we are entirely dependent
upon Him for our power to get
wealth: that He gives that business
sagacity and brings about those con-
functions of circumstances over winch
we have no control, but taking adj
vantage of which enables us to &C,
cumufate of this worlds good; and
that in recognition of our dependence
unon Him. and as an expression OF
our gratitude to Him we are under
obligation to worship Him with a,
least one tenth of our income.
It has been objected that it was
impossible to ascertain just wha'
ones income is, and if it was posi-
ble ALWAYS to ascertain the income, tc
give one tenth of it to God in worship
would mean bankruptcy. But the wal
has in surprising manner refutec
both of these arguments. Uncle San
has taken hand in the matter and ha:
helped men to find out without any
question of doubt just what their IN
comes are, and no longer can any on'
dodge the obligation of worshipine
God with given percentage OF MI
income because he is unable to know
what his income is. The government
records will serve the Church in thu
future in helping its members Il
arrive at a conclusion IN the matter
And as for going into bankruptc!
by giving one tenth to the Lord, SCI
what has happened. The govern
ment has claimed not merely on
tenth, but so, 60, rs per cen
and even 80 per cent of incomes, AM
vet, Notwithstanding the fact that 81
large a percentage of the income
have been claimed by the government
never were there so few bankruptcle
as there have been the last year. TIL
history of the government in this re
gard conclusively proves that tn
worshiping God with one tenth OF tn
income is both feasible and practic
able. The Church has been Winds
. Gated.
vi. Another thing for which tn
Church has contended, is, that tn
) spiritual is infinitely more valuabl
than the material She has all alon
. maintained that the soul is of NOR
worth than the body, and that over
under, around and through the tenn
, poral, there is the eternal. Tn
, Church has ever sought to hold me
, and women to the conscious reallzs
ton of accountability to God an
, sought to have men recognize tn
, relative Importance Of the spiritus
, as over against the material.
, The world has given slight after
: ton to this advocacy of the Church
The attitudeNof the world was voice
only too clearly, though somewhs
. bluntly, by Napoleon when he sait
"God is always on the side of tn
/ army with the greatest battalions.
e This was the theory on which Gel
! many acted when she precipitated tn
t war in the belief that might We
i right"
1 The Allies and the United Stat.
entered the conflict and have fougl
Q it through to a happy finish for \
e other reason that that of principl
h We have maintained in this strugg
that to save the soul it was our dut
c and privilege to lay down the bod;
h that it would profit nothing for Il
y individual or the nation to gain Il
8 whole world, if in the gaining, Il
y soul was lost. And there we
+ thrust to the fore in the leadersh
o of affairs, men Of outstanding pr
d nounced religious principles Iii
h Lloyd George Of Great Britain al
q Woodrow Wilson of America. On Il
i field of battle men like Haig, Frenc
i Byng and Allenby, Pershing, al
b Foch. All of these men are mt
y, who recognize God, trust the Lo
IS Jesus for their personal salvatio
and~ SOCK divine Guidance in all