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THE CORSICANA SEMI-WEEKLY LTGHT, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935. i FIVE GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY AS APPLIED TO PRESENT Radical Change of Personal Viewpoint Required by It would Solve All Problems, Including Intemperance. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Just as timely and important if it were a discovery reported the first time in today's newsstands the great central of the Christian religion, 'Jr life for a follower of Christ mee-s unselfishness and constant leration for others. I nat sounds old-fashioned and Sunday-schoolish, doesn't it? Well, it is: but It is a more practical way out of the preset muddle of things than any plan yet proposed by Washington or Ottawa or any other one of the capitals.

For the great change which can make a new order of life possible for civilization is essentially a change in human spirits. Is is only because men have been selfish and greedy and opinionated that they have pone all wrong. Each of us has been looking out for Number One, with dire consequences to Number in turn, is rather ominously insisting upon his personal rights, without regard to the other man, or the whole mass of mankind. The Big Idea. Really, it is a revolutionary principle, this Big Idea of Christianity.

It worked in the early centuries, and changed organized society. It is working today in ten thousand communities where neighborliness, brotherhood and a concern for the common welfare are the natural expression the feeling. Always, of course, such groups are Christian; who, without making any parade of their virtues, are modestly trying to follow what Jesus called For a few days past I have been off from cities sojourning amongst average country folk, whose simple kindliness, helpfulness and co-operation exemplify what we are all seeking in the new world that is now in the making. The experience has been a refreshing one. To dwell where there are no class distinctions or class hatreds; and where nobody is trying to get the better of his neighbor, is a lesson in the practicability of religion.

Ths Big Idea of Christianity, which puts a brother's welfare ahead of own ideas, was first practiced by Jesus Christ, who exemplified it climacterically on the cross. It lays down as a platform of life that "no man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to It is simple unselfishness in action. If we remove selfishness from society, we have something fairer than ever Was dreamed of in any literary Utopia. Is Religion Workable? To deny the practicability of this piogram for the times is to Ignore the long line of godly men and of them live have sincerely shape their lives by the standards. These saints the leaven which has kept from perishing of its own corruption.

They are the assurance to the United States and Canada that our problems will be out by the Christian and democratic way, rather than by violent upheavals and revolution. Every disciple of Jems is a priceless stabiizing force in a shaky Wherever it has been tried, Christianity has worked. Every reader of these lines can call to mind noble personalities who are governed by the royal law of love. Whether they eat or drink or play, or do the work, they do so unto the Most of them do not know much of the moden science of sociology; but they do know what is better, own law of selfishness. Simple extension, one by one, of the number of these Pilgrims of the Way is the one sure and abiding method for society as a whole.

Every multiplication of the number of sincere Christians is a step toward the ideal state, which we call the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Not yet has the whole church awakened to a vivid consciousness that this is her first and main business. Winning recruits for Christ is a more bene- ficient world service than any of the other enticing causes that make so powerful appeal to many preachers. Power For The New Way. I have been crudely setting forth the vital principal which will redeem society, after all other experiments have failed.

Now I am bound to go a step further, and write of the distinctive Christian truth of the supernatural empowerment for the fulfilment of this program. Good ideas have been dowered upon the world for ages, and among them have been may elaborate schemes for a re-made society. All have come to naught because they lacked an adequate dynamic behind them. Christianity has succeeded above all else because accompanied by the promised Power of God Himself. All the long experience of Christianity testifies to the presence and enabling of a Force that is more than normal to man.

Divine help has never been denied to those who seek to obey the Divine will. In their own spirits, and in their efforts, disciples have found an Assistance transcending all human equipment. Followers of the Way are strangely sustained by the mysterious Spirit who was the farewell bequest of Jesus to His friends. Where The Truth Fits No situation can arise wherein this truth of Christian unselfishness does not fit. It applies in the home, where domestic relationships are so likely to clash.

It enters into the daily association with fellow workers. It is a vital part of every larger political and social duties. The light of love in action, given by Christ to guide His followers along the Way a torch that can dispel any darkness. Specifically, in the present Lesson which has been assigned to the Sunday schools by the International Lesson Committee, it has to do with temperance. The ugly old question of strong drink and its evils must be confronted from this distinctively Christian standpoint.

Arguing from a purely selfish position, all sort of indulgence in alcohol may be defended. If personal tastes or associations call for the use of strong drink, no man may say one nay, if the law of selfishness be admitted as supreme. But once the dominion of the Christ-principle be conceded, then all is changed, and strong drink stands convicted as an outlaw against love. Plenty of persons drink without traceable harm to themselves. Many Christians in the past have done so.

But when the welfare of the other man comes into consideration, then the balances fall so strongly against the habit that the altruist and the Christian should forego their personal inclination in behalf of the weaker brother and the common good. All lesser liberties must be judged by the higher liberty of love, the liberty to forgo selfishness. After all, what a relatively trifling thing the drinking habit is to occupy so large a space on the social scene. In the past week I have travelled nearly a thou- ooooooooooooooo The International Sunday School Lesson for June 30 is: Under (A Temperance Rom. I Cor.

ooooooooooooooo I I .1,1 Dress Sale I Cotton Chiffon For (Most of These are in Sizes 38 to 44) One Group of Nets For $3.95 Another Group, For $6.95 One Group of Eyeletts, For Closing Out One Rack of I Silk Dresses for Batiste Gowns Underwood Style Shop LOCAL MASONS IN ATTENDANCE UPON ATHENS SESSIONS A number of prominent local Masons attended the joint installation of officers for the Athens and Malakoff Masonic bodies Tuesday night at Athens, when Bonner Frizzell, superintendent of the Palestine schools, was the principal spearker. Several local Masons will attend a similar meeting in Waco Wednesday night. Those going to Athens Tuesday night included District Judge S. Callicutt, past district deputy grand master; W. D.

Gillen, past master of the local lodge; J. A. Bonner, past district deputy grand master, Eureka; H. B. Bomar, H.

I. Singleton, secretary of the Eureka lodge. Those planning to make the trip to Wace include Judge Callicutt, Sam J. Helm, J. A.

Bonner, and Earl Presley, district deputy grand master. Lewis David Has Been Named Agent In Liberty County Lewis David, son of Mrs. J. W. David, county agent for Madison county for the past several months, has been appointed county agent in Liberty county and has assumed his new place.

Mrs. David, formerly Mary Jo Young ojv Corsicana, is still at Madisonville but will move to Liberty wthin the next few days, relatives here have been advised. sand miles by automobile, and the signs all along the way have thrust into my mind a fresh sense of the undue importance given to this one article of human consumption. There is no such publicity for bread or meat or vegetables. As a lifelong total abstainer, who has travelled widely over the world, I can testify that I have suffered no sort of loss, but can recount real advantages, from doing without all forms of strong drink.

SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS In the name of all you hope to know, cling close to what you know Brooks. Adversity is necessary to the development of Chinese Proverb. Thou seemest human and divine; The highest, holiest manhood Thou; Our Ayill are ours, we knou? not why; Our will is ours to make them It is good to have money, and the things that money can buy; but good, too, to check up once in a while, and make sure that you lost the things that money won't Wister. To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus I Cor. 8:6.

not in seeking, not in endless striving. Thy quest is found; Be still and listen; Be still and drink The quiet of all around. Rowland Sill. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare the time for personal contention; still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of Courthouse News District Clerk's Office. The following case was filed: Mrs.

Clara Bell Spurlock vs. W. J. Spurlock, divorce. County Court.

A negro was adjudged of unsound mind in the county court Tuesday afternoon. Probate Court. Noja J. Hill was appointed ministratrix of the estate of C. B.

Hill, deceased, by County Judgg C. E. McWilliams. Warranty Deeds. B.

B. Fullwood, et ux, to Mrs. J. W- Read, part of the Parker addition, Corsicana, $100. Ths United Savings Bank of Detroit, to Edward M.

Polk, lot 4, block 647, Cal Kerr annex addition, Corsicana, $375. E. M. Polk to J. Lee Bonner, lot 4, block 647, Cal Kerr annex addition, Corsicana.

$895. Marriage Licenses. John E. Tramel and Johnnie L. Ball.

Edmond Howard Allen and Eugenia Sharp. Office. Lula Blair, negress, came to the courthouse Wednesday morning to get an order from officers to allow her to go to her former home in Cheneyboro to get personal effects, but was arrested and placed in jail on an indictment for assault with intent to murder. The negress was recently Indicted in connection with the alleged striking of her husband on the head with an axe and had not been re-arrested since the indictment was returned by the grand jury. Justice Court.

Judge W. T. McFadden fined a negro $25 and costs Tuesday afternoon for the theft of a razor and SO fruit jars. Two were fined on affray charges and another for drunkenness Tuesday afternoon by Judge M. Bryant.

FUNERAL RITES ON WEDNESDAY FOR H. C. JOHNSTON Funeral services for Henry C. Johnston, native of Navarro county, who died in San Antonio at 7 oclock Tuesday morning, were conducted at the Eureka cemetery at 3 oclock Wednesday afternoon, where interment was made. He was a son of the late Captain Bob Johnston.

Rev. W. R. Hall, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the rites, and Sutherland McCammon had charge of the arrangements. Surviving are one brother.

R. B. Johnston of Tulsa, a brother-in-law, C. C. Walton, Corsicana and a sister-in-law, Mrs.

S. Johnston, Corsicana, First Vouchers For 1935 Cotton Rentals Have Been Received Ten first rental vouchers for the 1935 cotton crop had been received at tlie local offices for $344.26, bringing the total number of checks received for the season to 4,811 and the total amount of money for the cotton benefits to $212,913.76. CO-OPERATIVE GROUP COLLEGE ATTENDANCE PLAN MET TUESDAY Eleven boys and girls interested in the college co-operative plan for attending Texas A. and M. College and C.

I. Denton, met in the educational room of the Y. M. C. A.

Tuesday morning to discuss definite plans and arrangements for their respective groups. Special emphasis on canning products available now was stressed at the meeting and a committee composed of G. W. Patterson and J. R.

Griffin, of Blooming Grove, Bruce Phenix of Corsicana, and Jerry Sam Scott of Frost, was appointed to assemble information as to canning facilities, purchasing products in bulk, and to be readv to make a report at the next meeting: of the group, Those in attendance Tuesday were G. W. Patterson, Roy Griffin, J. R. Griffin, Blooming Grove; Jerry Sam Scott and Fabrian Magee, Frost; Mary Josephine Thorp and Elizabeth Kelt, Chatfield: Bernard Liddell, Route 4, Corsicana, and Vivian Blackburn, Bruce Phenix and Loleta Kelly of Corsicana.

Jerry Sam Scott, as chairman, presided and Miss Almarie Morris acted as secretary in the absence of Miss Joan Germany of Frost. Mrs. Mitchell Advisor. At the request of C. C.

Morris and Miss Ruth McNabb. who were unable to be present, Mrs. R. B. Mitchell, whose son, Robert Mitchell.

was chirman of the Navarro county group at A. and M. College last year, attended the meeting Tuesday as adult advisor. Mrs. C.

C. Stephenson, house-mother for the group at A. and M. last year, was also present and gave some practical and useful information to the boys and girls based on her experience with the project. Mrs.

Herman Kelly was a visitor. Another meeting is scheduled to be held at the Y. M. C. A.

on next Saturday morning at 9 a. m. to which all students in the community, who are interested, are invited to attend. SAN ANTONIO DRUG COMPANY PRESIDENT HAS DEEN INDICTED SAN ANTONIO. June (IP William Ochse, prominent civic leader and president of the San Antonio Drus: Company, today was under an Indictment returned by the federal district court jury In connection with alleged unlawful transportation of liquor in interstate commerce and violation of internal revenue laws.

T. A. Lambert, sales director; H. J. Linscott, chemist, and the drug company as a corporation, also were under indictment.

In addition to the two officials and the chemist of the San tonio Drug Company, J. M. iJakei Korman, wholesale liquor dealer and owner of the South Drug Company, was indicted in the same connection. Cashway Grocery Market- The Store with the Green Front oc oc ui tU 0C 2 a cj oc CO Cashway Grocery and Market L. E.

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