Show WOULD REMOVE THE TEMPTATIONS Local Pastor Discusses Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling bling Blocks in Way of Individuals Removing was the sub subject subject Jett of the sermon of the tho Rev Re Herbert HerbertE E Hays of ot the Third Presbyterian church Sunday the text being Isaiah Take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people Mr Hays said In part The Israelites were human The prophets as their religious teachers had often to rebuke them In this book of Isaiah the godly life Is set before the peo people pIe as the summit of a mountain the holy mountain at Jerusalem To attain to the summit U It is necessary to travel the road up to It and the road Is steep and full of obstructions The prophet is reproaching the people for hot not attaining to more of this godliness when the di divine divine divine vine voice speaks and says sa s Take up u uthe the stumbling block out of or the way of my people Christian living Is never easy but it ought to be made mode as easy as possible The strong ought to care for the weak That is one of the reasons why they are given gen strength People often allow rillow in ins a community or nation which are cursing thousands yet as long as they personally pers mally are free from the curse they are heedless Most of the Influences good and arid bad of a given community are areat areat areat at the disposal of the people of that com community community community During the pat few years moral sentiment in the United States has been decidedly on the upgrade and moral sentiment sen sentiment sentiment is the greatest human power on onearth onearth onearth earth Let us consider some institutions which ought to be abolished and some condi condl conditions conditions which ought to be changed First the saloon not just the habit of drinking the saloon as on an organized power for evil Our country countr has done wrong In ever recognizing such an Institution as all legal Then the brothel Some want to license it but we have enough evils legalized What about gambling In some ways worse than either of the above The Thereal Thereal Thereal real gambler is given up body bod mind and soul to hell If there were all possible activity on the part of officials and citi citizens citizens zens this evil could be practically abolished A word about business dishonesty This Is a public matter Commercial crookedness ought to be exposed prose prosecuted prosecuted prosecuted and annihilated About Social Ambition What shall be said of ot social ambi ambitions ambitions ambitions It has sent countless numbers to prison suicide and eternal failure I want to say a word about the use and the abuse of the Sabbath It was made for forman forman forman man and is Important In its bearing upon his welfare People cannot without great harm live and work every day alike Many people overlook the possible help helpfulness helpfulness helpfulness to be found In a well spent Sunday Sun Sunday Sunday day The churchs chief business Is to reach the Individual with the truth and to help him whatever be his circumstances to tobe tobe tobe be and do right But the church Is also alsoto to better conditions wherever possible There will be temptations enough at best let us seek to remove as many of them themas as ns possible |