The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-08-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared Especially For The Repub-
leans Readers by Rev. U. S.
Wright, DID,.

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DUTIES TO MAN.
Exodus 20: 1921.
Tkou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
solicitations 1918.
THOU SHALT PLAY FAIR WITH
THY HOME.
The first institution God set in the
world was the home; the second,
whose story we are following in Exc
) dus, is the church, and the third, to
which we will come later, is the state.
This is the divine order. Here then in
the heart Of Gods commands so soon
. as true relationship has been estab-
lished with Himself we enter the
) home. 1t is the vital institution in
the world now as it has been in the
thinking of the Eternal. Upon the
: home rests our moral character; our
civic and religious liberties are
grounded there; virtue, manhood,
: citizenship grow there. We forget
it at our peril. For American citi-
zenship in the long run, will be, must
: be, what the American home is" So
wrote that splendid strugglar for the
! rights for the poor, Jacob Riis whom
President Roosevelt called the most
useful citizen in America" And its
: stability is founded upon the charac-
, ter of its parents and the discern
,, ment of the children. God says !:
. Honor thy father and thy mother"
but God never gives honor where it
! isn't due. How can a child honor a
: remarked father and a remarked
mother while he is shuttle between
the two? God means that parents
! shall keep themselves worthy of hon
or on the part of the child The other
woman or the other man in the case
has no part in Gods planning. Camp
bell Morgan visited a room from
which the children fled as he APP
preached. The mother said: Excuse
the children; they thought you were
their father" 1t is impossible for a
child to honor parent like that. And
it is difficult to house true home in
hotel God means a real home when
He builds it and real parents to run it
when he commands it to be held in
honor. We must play fair with the
home and give it attention sufficient
to make it all that it is meant to be
to the life of those within it and to
the state of which it is the founda-
ton. Given home of that sort
children are to be discerning enough
to appreciate its quality Note that
it is not a childless home God is con-
templating. Both the younger and
the elder son of Christ's parable
) failed to give it honor and to play
!, fair with its life but ultimately they
found its worth. And this is the grip
; Of a real home, it compels the ulti-
mate allegiance of its sons and
daughters.
THOU SHALT PLAY FAIR WITH
; THY HANDS.
These next commands concern
; themselves with persons, purity and
property. Thou shalt not kill. With
the perfectly appalling record for
; crime in our own land we need again
to read the lines craven in the moral
constitution of the race. In "The
) Economic Waste of Sin" the author
lists the losses to our own nation
from crime as follows: Direct loss
. thru destruction, cost of police and
private protection S549,813,7SS; thru
loss of production of the criminals
(200,000) and those who are made
productive because of them, ST.
1S0,000,000; thru the support OF
criminals in stolen values, fraudulent
. securities, fraudulent failures, gamb-
ling and forgery, $1,000, 100000, or a
ottal annual cost of crime Of $685.
! S13,7S8. And then there is no in
clusion of fake cures and medicines
that take terrific total each year
none of the graft that has made Tea
Pot Dome famous and has stained the
reputation of more states than Penn
sylvania Nor does it include the men
who are murdered whose value has
no possible computation. 1t is a ter
rife Indictment of our American life
and tremendous urge to write anew
in the Nations life these rules that
indicate the direction along which we
may go with safety Killing and
stealing are not alone in America they
belong to the world but so long as we
are making the record we are it be-
hooves us to talk very little about the
rest of the world. And we may well
set ourselves the task of its reduction
Can the Church play fair with the ris-
ing generation unless it filings its
warnings in its face? That Judge ir
! Chicago who gave some first offend
! ers a trip thru the penitentiary was
. using a wise precaution against 6
repetition. And then also we must