Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
Sunday School Lesson

sists that people are mere masses OF
cells which act according to stimuli"
Although there is something in the
"endocrine gland" idea. and in the
power of environment, but, according
to the life in the spirit, that'was ex-
pounded by Paul, we posses a personal
freedom and are free-will moral agents.
We are not victims of various appe-
tiles, passions, internal and external
stimuli" We know that there exists
power that makes for righteous.
ness" and that within us we have a
spirit that makes for the same end
which requires us not to use our lib
erty for personal or selfish ends.
Love Limits Freedom.
While the freedom of the gospel de-
velops ones personality and promotes
spiritual development of the soul. it
does not permit the expansion of per-
sonal liberty at the expense of the
best interest of the community. Our
freedom is limited by the law of love.
which prevents our living in sinful in
dulgences and without. regard to the
welfare of others. The one, who lives
a spiritual life, will not fulfill the lustS
of the flesh, TO these things are dia.
metrically opposed to true Christian
itually minded individual makes him
1.-The freest of the free. having not
only civil and religious libertyA but
also liberty intellectual and spiritual,
social and personal"
1t is conditioned upon our loving
not only Christ, but our neighbor. If
we live in a constant jar, biting and
devouring one another. we are not
living in accordance with the spirit of
love, that calls for us to promote the
welfare of one another in the brother
hood of the church and community. If
we walk in the spirit we will be build
ers of the spirit of brotherhood in all
of our labor and by our life.
The Contrasted Ways.
Every man has open to him the
two ways of life, one leads upward
and the other downward. Paul
gives a catalogue of vices springing
from uncontrolled sensuality. This
list of crimes is a specimen of the
work of human nature, uncontrolled
by the Holy Spirit. Among them we
find sins that are as much or more
the fruit of the temper, thought and
imagination. 1t will pay one who
thinks that they are living a life free
catalogue of the works of the flesh,
which, if continued to be practiced by
us, will result in our being excluded
not only from Heaven, but in due
time, from polite society among men.
If there is recorded there any form
of sin INDUCED in by any one, then
let that one commence at once to
curb, crush and control it, so that it
shall cease to have dominion over
them. 1t will call for the assistance
of the Holy Spirit.
Our daily press records the evidence
of many who have failed in meeting
the standards of the community eX-
pressed in its laws. They may have
been first offender, but the neighbor-
hood demands protection from such
acts that threatens it's peace and
security. It's laws demand respect,
but the man, who walks in the spirit
will lead the right kind Of life free
from the condemnation of the law.
There is no law against "love, joy,
peace, patience toward others, kind
ness, benevolence, good faith, meek
ness, temperance, or self-control. The
law condemns the works of "our lower
Fornication, impurity. in
decency idolworship, sorcery, enmity,
strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion,