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and take offense, also fightings within, con flicts between desire and conscience. How often we have heard of men vainly regret ting some wicked deed, blaming it on drink ! So on down the list we could go, de scribing the babblings or foolish talking, complaining, noisy demonstrations, need less, terrible accidents, brawls, obscured wisdom, red eyes, and other ills too nu merous to mention—all the results of fol lowing the demon rum. Illustrations I. U nder a B lack M an ' s R ule Khama, the Christian King o f the Ba- mangwatas, wrote to the British governor: “ T o fight against drink is to fight against demons, not against men. I dread the white man’s drink more than all the assagais o f the Matabeles which kill men’s bodies, and it is quickly over; but drink puts devils into men and destroys both bodies and souls forever. Its wound never heals. I pray your honor never to ask me to open even a little door to drink.” In spite o f all his precautions, Khama afterward discovered that English traders were selling intoxicating liquors to his subjects. He called them to him and ad dressed them in these scathing w ords: “When you white men rule this country, you can do as you like. At present I rule, and I shall maintain my laws which you insult and despise. You have insulted and despised me in my own town because I am a black man. You do so because you de spise black men in your hearts. Go back to your own country. Take all that is yours and go. I am trying to lead my people to act according to that Word of God which we have received from you white people, and you show them an ex ample o f wickedness such as we have never known. You, the people o f the W ord o f God! Go! Take your cattle, and leave my town, and never come back again.” |The traders departed in disgrace, and since that time Khama’s laws have been observed, and the white man’s drink can not be found where he rules.—T arbell . II. H is M other ’ s E yes A young man who had joined the army was visiting at his mother’s early home, and her friends were eager to see him. One dear old lady put her hands on his shoul ders, and scanned his face, and then ex claimed with satisfied voice, “Yes, you have your mother’s eyes and your moth er’s lips.” “I tell you, Mack,” said the young sol dier in telling about the incident afterward, “ I tell you I was glad that I had not lost my mother’s eyes in the dissipation o f army life.”—T arbell . Discussion Material I. S entence S ermons Drink is the mother o f want and the nurse o f crime.—L ord B rougham . It is not the last drink that ruins the man, but the first.— S. H. H adley . When a young man takes his first drink, he gives the devil an ironclad mortgage on himself.—R am ’ s H orn . Intoxicating drink is the greatest factor o f crime, pauperism, orphanhood, disease, and insanity.—N ewman . II. A thletics and T emperance The athlete must not break training rules. The pitcher who smokes a cigarette
gives away the game. The sprinter who takes a convivial glass o f beer breaks no record. His record breaks him. Some day we shall realize that the game o f life is more strenuous than the game o f football, more intricate than pitching curves, more difficult than punting. W e shall keep in trim for it. W e must remember training rules. The rules that win the football game are good also for success in business. Much of the strength of young America is wasted in the dissipation o f drinking or smoking. I f we keep the training rules o f life in literal honesty, we shall win a host o f prizes that otherwise we would lose. Keep mind and soul and body clean if success would be yours.—J ordan . OCTOBER 23, 1932 SOLVING THE PROBLEM M atthew 7 :16-20 Suggestions for the Meeting This is a most important subject. As the problem o f prohibition has never been solved satisfactorily, it will be a most in teresting study to see how the young peo ple handle it. The leader should be ap pointed weeks in advance, in order that he may have time to marshall his forces and his facts. He should have at least five speakers previously appointed, who will make a se rious study of the subject in order that they may intelligently present it. Inter views with temperance and prohibition workers should be had to obtain fresh sta tistics. Public libraries should be consulted, the current magazines read, and, in fact, re liable information should be procured from every source available. Never since the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted has this question been so important and so far-reaching. It has become the paramount issue in our national politics. How earnest indeed, then, should our young people be, in knowing just what the will o f God is for us in regard to this issue! Humanly speaking, the hope o f America lies in its youth, so here is a most vital way for them to help. These subjects might be discussed by the five speakers suggested : 1. Who were pioneers o f temperance and prohibition ? 2. What did high license and low li cense accomplish? 3. What has kept prohibition from suc ceeding ? 4. Discuss Daniel’s fearless life. 5. “Honest enforcement o f law is more important than the law.” Is this always true? Illustration In 1873, a group of women at Hillsboro, Ohio, after prayer and the reading of the 146th Psalm, which came to be known as the Crusader’s Psalm, proceeded directly to the saloons of the town, where with prayers and pleading, they appealed to the saloon-keepers to give up their business. One can well imagine the disconcerting ef fect this had on the saloon-keepers. Women stood at the bar and pleaded with the bartender; others knelt at the tables or out in the street and prayed. Business was at a standstill, and the town was thrown into the most furious excitement for some days. At Washington Court House, Ohio, fif ty-two women on a certain day marched to the saloons with the church bells tolling and began their crusade o f persuasion and
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