The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-15

GOLDEN TEXT-At the last it biteth
like a serpent. and stingeth like an
adder. Proverbs %: 30.
PRIMARY TOPIC-A Man Who Had
First Choice.
JUNIOR TOPIC-The Way of Woe.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP.
IC-What Science Says About Alcohol.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-The Scientific Basis of Temperance.
The American people are alert to
the forces which threaten the bull
warks of national life, and are
ready to take intelligent and eff
fective action against them when
fully aroused to the danger. The
powers of evil know this to be
true and are careful to avoid any,
thing that directs our attention to
what is constantly going on under
cover. The liquor question is one
of our nations most serious prob
lens. The devastating results of
the widespread sale and use of in
toxicants will only be known as
Christian men and women unmask
this wicked business which poses
under the banner of congenial and
pleasant living, and proudly points
to it's recognition by the govern
ment as a legal enterprise.
The facts are available through
various temperance organizations
and in such books as alcohol and
Man." by DR.. Emerson of Colum-
bia university. The Sunday School
lessons for 1887 present four oppor-
tunities to bring the matter square
ly before the adults and children
who are in our Bible Schools. We
have already Gan. 80 considered
the economic problem, and will
later deal with intemperance as
social and moral evil. The lesson
for today affords a special oppor-
tunity to touch on the scientific
side, presenting intoXicants in their
true light as a poison. Look up
the word ''intoxicate" in a good
dictionary and you at once have
picture of what beer, wine, and
Whiskey do to the human body.
The Christian approach to any
consideration of the matter is by
recognizing that man is a spiritual
being, dwelling in a physical body.
Our first Scripture portion presents
foundation principle.
1. We Live in World of Moral
Responsibility Gen. 13: 13; 10: 9:23-25).
Life is not a careless drifting
from day to day, from pleasure to
pleasure, into sin or not as one
may choose, with no responsibility
for ones actions. Man was created
in the likeness and image of God.
He possesses the power of choice.
He knows right from wrong. If
he chooses to do right he has all
the resources Of the omnipotent
God to call upon as his strength and
stay. But if he chooses to turn his
back upon God and upon Christ, and
to 60 into the ways of sin, let
him be sure that there is day of
| Judgment to come from which he
shall in no wise escape. The de-
struction of the wicked cities of the
plain, terrible as it WAS in itself,
is but a prophecy of judgment to
come. See Luke 10:1O-12.
III. Men Go Two Different Ways
(Deut. 32:31-30.
Moses contrasts the Rock in
which his people trusted, and the
corrupt standards of their heather
neighbors by which they were
tempted. One greater than Moses
spoke of the two ways (read Matt.
7:13, 40, and pointed out the sad
fact that there are many that go
down the broad way to destruction,
and few who walk in the narrow
way of life. Let us seek to win
our young men and women away
from the sinful ways of this world.
iii. The Liquor Way Is the Wrong
Way prov. 23:29-32).
Skillful indeed are the advertis-
ing devices of the liquor interests!
They associate their intoXicants
(poisons) with holiday festivities,
happy family gatherings, social
preferment, and so on. They do not
picture the bleary eye, the babbling
tongue, the wounds without
cause" They carefully overlook
the broken-hearted mother, the rag
ged children, the empty cupboard,
and the devastated home life. They
say nothing of the men who have
lost their characters and their jobs,
ard of the women who have lowered
themselves beyond description be-
cause of their love for liquor. Let
us in tenderness and heart-broken
humility present to our Sunday
School classes that picture, which
is a disgrace to our nation. The
wine may look red, and it may
even 90 smoothly down the throat
Ga possible translation of the words
when it moveth Alright, v. 81,
but it still has the bite of serpent
and the sting of an adder ". 32).
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