THE UNION PRESS-COURIER,
PAGE SIX
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THE SOWER
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa.
WE ARE ALL CLIMBING THE |
SAME MOUNTAIN
We're all in the same boat. We're all |
sailing toward the same port,-—perfec- |
tion, God-likeness. Or, to change the|
simile, were are all climbing the same |
mountain,—the upward path that leads
to perfection, to the becoming of ma-
ture gods. And it is a hard climb. Some
are ahead, some are just behind, some
are back a little farther, and some are
away down near the bottom, but we
are all climbing, and it doesn't be-
hoove anyone to shove anyone else
back, or to step on anyone else's neck,
or run up alone and leave the rest to
struggle by themselves, if we can help
them up. It is'nt good sportsmanship
to hinder anyone else in his climb up,
rior to ignore him if he needs help.
It is Christian to “look upon the things
of others,” as well as upon our own
things.
I am climbing; you are climbing;
the other fellow is climbing; we are all
climbing. And no one has any right to
hinder anyone else, or to throw stones
at him, or to put anything in his way,
or to ignore him if he needs help;
for we are all in a precarious condi-
tion, and if anyone stops and starts to
throw stones at anyone else he may
start a landslide that will sweep the
whole crowd down the hill again.
Sadly enough that thing DOES hap-
pen often enough on the journey up.
Some moron or bully starts a war—
and the whole crowd of climbers is
catapulted down the hill to lower
levels where we all have to start again
to climb laboriously back up to where
we were before. War brings in its
wake a resurgence of liquor, gamb-
ling, slavery, exploitation, sensuality,
low idealism, brutality, race-hatipd,
animality, crime, etc, and as the re-
sult the climbing race is thrust back
down the hill again, and must begin
painfully to re-climb the hill. No won-
der we are still, after long millen-
niums of climbing, still down near the
bottom.
But don’t be discouraged, for the
trouble is not that mankind is unable
to learn and progress to better things.
It is NOT that man is naturally cor-
rupt, or by nature evil,—as some ignor-
antly contend—nor that man is by na-
ture inclined to do wrong, (that's a
slander on mankind and an insult to
God the creator.) T hg trouble with the
mass of mankind here in this world
is this: There is continually being
born into the world a stream of babies
that, as they grow up, must of necess-
ity learn over again the lessons that |
their adults had to learn, and in the
Process of learning these lessons they,
of course, keep the atmosphere inevi-
tably akin to the atmosphere of the
kindergarden as compared to the ma-
turity of the adult life therein.
It seems that™we all have to learn
the lessens of life for ourselves,—no
tinually being borne into this mass
of humanity down here we will be un-
der the necessity of putting up with
its growing pains and being patient
with its immaturities. Of course, that
doesn’t mean that things are not slow-
ly improving as we go along, even
down here in this kindergarden. We
ARE improving, slowly, but neverthe-
less improving. And this kindergarden
is slowly being made a better place in
which to train youngsters.
But, always, this earthly scene will
be largely infantile because infants
are continually being borne into it,
while the spiritually and mentally ma-
ture are continually being advanced on
to another scene of training and dici-
pline, thus keeping the mass-level
here well down toward the kinder-
garden stage of culture.
Some things we learn from others,
and thus are saved from learning by
experience ourselves. But not many
things. Every man has to live his
own life for himseif, and, as Paul says,
“work out his own salvation with pain
and suffering, if not with fear and
trembling.”
That's what you had to do; and
that’s what we have had to do,—ac-
cording to each, our own peculiar
characteristics. Everybody makes his
own mistakes,—and learns by them.
We go on to perfection, day by day,
by “rising on the stepping stones of
our dead selves to higher things,” as
the poet says. Jesus did that, so does
everyone else. He showed us how to
do it in fine fashion, and the world
will always be grateful to Him for
showing the way. It helps and encoura-
ges us. And if we keep our eyes on
Him, watching and imitating Him as
much as we can, we will eventually
come to the top of the hill in due
course of time.
John says: “Beloved, let us love one
knows God, for God is love. If we
love one another, then God remains
within us. Above all other things love
one another. He who loves his brother
loves God”
LOVE is the heart and soul of the
Gospel message. Only people who love
| can understand God, for it is the na-
| ture of God to love. Love is the ful-
| filling of the law.
|
| Love begets patience. The writer of
Hebrews says: “Steady patience 1s
what you need. We are not the men to
shrink back and be lost, but to have
faith and so to win our souls. God is
| treating you as one.” Read on, in
| chapter 12, to the statement by the
| writer of how God is training us by
| dicipline to become ideal sons. as was
| Jesus. In order that we may come “to
{ mount Sion, the city of the living God,
| the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of
angels in festal gathering, to the assem-
{bly of the first - born registered in
| heaven, to the God of all as judge,
to the spirits of just men made PER-
FECT.” “Make love your aim,” be-
| cause love begets faith and hope and
i every other good virtue, and makes
the personality to glow with that divi-
| nity which is within us all, and which
| is the promise that some day we shall
| be as gods.
——— i LL
another, for love belongs to God, and '
everyone who loves is born of God and |
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PATTON METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
James A. Turner, Pastor
Church School 10 A. M. Preaching,
11 A.M. and 7:30 P. M. Epworth
League 6:30 P. M. Mid-week Bible
Class, Wednesday 7:30 P. M.
The interest in the mid-week Bible
class is growing week by week. On
Wednesday evening the 8th there were
72 present, and a larger attendance is
expected on the 15th. The studies are
of exceptional interest, and are worth
anybody's time and consideration. The
content of these lessons, their exposi-
tory material, have required a great
many years of study and research to
gather and arrange for presentation,
and those who have heard the first
in the series of lectures will agree that
the subject matter is unusually inter-
esting and absorbing as well as unique
and extraordinary. Perhaps this is the
only time that you will be priveleged
to hear anything so so entrancing, im-
pressive and inspiring. Come out, next
Wednesday evening, bring your Bible,
and enjoy one of the most entertain- :
ing, interesting, instructive and up-
lifting evenings that you have ever
known. You will go home exhilirated,
inspired, informed, glad of heart, and
in possession of a greater degree of
self-esteem than anything you have
heretofore experienced. Come and see
for yourself.
MARK LEADBETTER
JOINS FRATERNITY
Barnesboro — Mark R. Leadbetter
of Barnesboro has accepted an invita-
tion to membership in the Delta Up-
silon Fraternity at the University of
Pennsylvania following the close of
the annual fraternity rushing season
on the university campus. Leadbetter
is a son of Dr. and Mrs. M. I. Lead-
better of Barnesboro and formerly at-
tended Barnesboro High School and
Franklin and Marshall College. He is
now enrolled in the College of Arts
and Sciences at Pennsylvania.
Advertise in the Press-Courier,
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