e it i, TE rer HL" J Thursday, September 7, 1939, THE SOWER A Weekly Department of Religious and Secular Thought Contributed by REV. JAMES A. TURNER. Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa. WHY FORGIVE? A great philosopher once said: “He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.” And E. H. Chapin said, “Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.” Lord Chesterfield reminds us that “Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.” “Only the brave,’ says terne, know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.” Lavater tells us that “He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime en- joyments of life.” And Francis Quarles asks: “Hath any wronged thee!-—Be bravely re- venged.—Slight it, and the work is begun: forgive, and it is finished.—He is below himself that is not above an injury.” Dr. George Truman Carl, in an ar- ticle on ‘Those Who Trespass” says some interesting things that every pro- fessing Christian ought to take to heart: “As we forgive those who trespass against us.” And instantaneously the (Political Advertisement) FOR COUNTY TREASURER DEMOCRAT LABOR’'S PROVEN FRIEND JOHN J. 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Even to talk ab- out forgiveness for some people, say the critics, is to reveal a decided un- familiarity with the seriousness of the offenses directed against us. I think the reverse is true. To re- fuse to forgive is to reveal either a lack of understanding of the conse- quences of an unforgiving heart, or to have failed to discover the great joy, peace and beauty that inevitably follow in the wake of a forgiving heart. Only when we acquire the art of gentle forgiveness toward those who wilfully, carelessly or ignorantly stab our hearts with the arrow of malice, ill-will and contempt, will we feel the power of an unbounded love that dwells in such an attitude. There is a splendid biographical sketch of Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson, now the American ambassador to Mex- ico, in a recent issue of the Review of Reviews. This particular passage caught my fancy: “Every adult of this generation will recall the tempestous anathemas that reverberated about his head during most of the years when he was head of the Navy department. There 1s a room in his wide, comfort- able house in Raleigh, N. C., where he has collected the originals of scores of the cartoons that ridiculed him. It is the room where he works when he works at home.” And then this signi- ficant comment: “He has utterly no rancor about them.” That word, “ran- cor” interested me to such an extent that I felt impelled to investigate its meaning in the dictionary. “Deep seat- ed enemity of malice.” Unforgiveness is like that. It winds itself about the deepest shafts of hu- man nature. It is cruel. It is ugly. It is poisonous. It is unchristian. Do you know of the group of plants called saxifrage? They are chiefly perien- nials. Even frost fails to root them out. Sometimes they are called rock- breakers. They thrust their roots deep into the crevices of rocks and literally break them to pieces. So it is with un- forgiveness. Sooner or later it will break your heart to pieces—it will wreck. your health, it will rob you of friends—it will undermine your busi- ness acumen—it has driven people in- to insanity and has made out of them murderers. I know of nothing more dangerous to human welfare and hap- piness and prosperity than this das- tardly business of bearing a grudge against your brother-man. Out in the Midwest a terrible scour- ge faces property owners. An oriental insect known as the termite has found its way into America. You are unaware of its persence until your building begins to sag or topple over. Investigation leads to a discovery of these insects eating at the very heart of your timbers. Unforgiveness is like that. Unforgiveness feeds on the very vi- tals—the sweetness and goodness of human nature. It strangles ideals and crushes firendship. It crucifies the higher self and blinds the eyes to all the beauty that would otherwise bloom in our midst. Henry Drummond has called our at- tention to the difference, in the para- ble of the prodigal, between the younger brother's aims, the sins of the flesh, and the elder brother’s sins, the sins of disposition. The one sin- ned low down in the flesh, the other high up in the disposition. “This is where religious people need to be cleansed,” says Stanley Jones. The sins from which we need to be clean- sed are the elder-brother sins of jeal- C \v} VOOVVOVOVVVOVVOVOOC OOOO) © 0OOVOVOVVVVBVVVVVVVVVOVVOVVOVVVVVOVVVVVOVV 0VOOVOVVOVVOVVVVV THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. ousy, unbrotherliness, and lack of love. “Bad-tempered saints are hinder- ing the Kingdom of God far more than | drunkards.” | (Continued next week.) PATTON METHODIST EristouAn CHURCH James A. Turner, pastor. Church school at 9 a. m. Preaching at 10 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Mid-week Bible Class on Wednesday at 7:30 P. M. In the Boston Public Library there were alcoves filled with wooden blocks shaped like books with a strip of imitation leather labeled, “Nothing Within.” As new books are purchased the shams are displaced and the genu- ine ones fill the space. Are there not many such members of our churches, who have an outward Christian ap- pearance, but whom God must label, “Nothing Within,” Yes, it is not uncommon to see in any church roll book the name of a member with the letters, “N. G.” — meaning, “NO GOOD.” The kind of members so designated are those peo- ple who join a church simply for the | honor and standing it gives them in the community and simply for the selfish advantages they can get out of such membership. The idea of support- ing the church with their money, pres- ence, prayers and labors is never giv- en any serious thought at all. They | want something for nothing. They join the church with the tought of getting something out of it without | putting anything in. Such people are indicated as “No Good” because they | are of no value to the church or the church's program. And every church is unfortnate enough to have some om these. There is “nothing within” them, either of honor, sense of duty, fair- play, self-respect, love of mankind, or of spiritual culture. They are simply leecehes,—taking without giving any- thing in return. SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR PREMATURE BABY Premature babies are not side-show freaks. There are many thousands of them born every year. Special care and special equipment is necessary to guarantee their living. A baby is considered premature if his weight, regardle f his age at the time of birth, is less than five and one- half pounds. Some premature babies are born weighin s little as two pounds. The premature baby is, in reality, immature and the aim .of medical and nursing care is to make him mature as soon as possible. There so little protective fat on a premature baby and his heat regula- ting system is so undeveloped that ar- tifical heat must be given to maintain a normal body temperature. Hence, baby incubators. The first incubator for babies was | devised in 1857, but many improve- ments were made during the iollow- | ing years. Countless hospitals today have air | conditioned cubicles, with accurately controlled room temperature and hu- | midity. Premature babies are fed on breast milk, whenever possible and every care is taken in the prevention of in- | fection, for such babies are more sus- ceptible an normal babies. There is no reason why, with pro- | per care, the premature baby cannot live to become strong and healthy as other children. Certainly their intelligence is not less than that of normal babies. premature babies, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Robert | Darwin, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rous- | seau, Napoleon, Bonaparte, and Victor Hugo were all premature babies. | So frail, so tiny, so hopelessly puny | were some of these “immortals” at birth, that their lives were despaired | of, yet they lived, thrived, grew strong physically and mentally and were am- | cng the greatest of men. | Premature babies need proper care. | FOR SALE—$85 Airway Sweeper, | this year’s model, used one month, for $30; 1934 Plymouth Two door car in | A-1 condition, all new rubber, price | $235.—Mrs. Adolph Hofer, 415 Palmer | Avenue, Patton. | He Talks Turkey Talking turkey, Myles Standish of Boston, Mass., direct descendant | Massachusetts colony, declared him- self against President Rooseveil’s | preposal to move Thanksgiving date | from November 30 to November 23. | The former date, he declares, “will | Prices Effective Until | | of the famous soldier of the first |k | be Thanksgiving day to the Stand- |g ish clan.” o Closing Saturday Even- — STORES COM § ; g —re) het ll ing September 9, 1939 Save the Most on the Best! 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