South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-24

DO YOU dare 20 think OF the world S
great burdens Can you do 90 and
keep back the tears and most OF all
the desire 90 serve this everburdened
humanity Well. everywhere you go
there are burdens and IL IS your busi-
ness and mine 20 help in the bearing
OF these burdens Holy Writ says
Every man should bear his own
burden" and we all agree, but the
man who Is no bigger than the four
walls OF his own home is very
small man indeed You must be
something and you must have some
thing before you can give 20 others
but you get that something in order
20 give il 10 others. Il is the other
one you a-e thinking OF all the time
and the man who thus thinks be-
I comes the worlds best servant. Our
first great necessity is 10 see the
worIc as 10 is with its needs and then
willing hands
The human race is peculiar in that
30 VIII not bear the burdens that IL
ought 10 bear and IL will not give up
the burdens that it ought not TO
bear. Such a burden as sin In oil its
various phases we hug and drag
about with us until we become slaves
ready 10 obey its every command. Il
is a very difficult thing 10 convince
men that the way Of The transgressor
is hard. Then the burdens that we
ought 10 bear, those we evade on
every possible occasion and excuse.
The burden OF responsibility we try
our best 20 shuttle off onto some one
else other than ourselves. We say
the reason we are such sinners is
that Adam tasted a green apple in
the garden Of Eden.-Come do not
blame poor old Adam with your
short comings. The poor fellow
has enough troubles Of his own when
in reality the reason is not Adam but
yourself You are individually re-
sponsible as far as II concerns your
Immediate good. Be independent
and blame yourself and you are the
strongest therefore. Now there are
other burdens and there are the bur
dens that are thrust upon US such
as temptation. trial sickness and
death and these for the purpose OF
education in unselfish service, in
our striving TO drive these forever
from the earth and in this latter is
the substance Of this message.
We need to learn the relation Of
man TO himself and then to those
around him-These are the first les
sons a child has 10 learn and blessed
is the Public School I'm teaching this
one necessity. Keep your child from
mingling with other children and you
rear for the world a nonentity. 1t
is hard for US TO learn the relation
between socialism and individualism
Ct am not useing these terms in a
political sense). Every man must
bear his own burden and yet as
Christian men we are required TO
bear one another's burdens. Is this
paradox? No. We cannot share
our neighbors lot but we can help
him carry his load. Your business
and mine is not TO take the man s
ills but TO help him bear them The
only man who can bear the burdens
OF others is the man who can bear
his own His trainlhg in bearing his
own fits him for the labors in behalf
OF others. Individual character is
one of the finest essentials of service.
You can not serve until you have
something TO serve with. You must
have something TO give before you
can give it. A man stands out as
an individual and as an individual
he stands through all eternity, in