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Show k PURE HEART IS A PURE FOUNTAIN SUKtslioiis. as lo How lo SUrl a Now Year Right, Pore Thought. Two Ways of Fighting Fight-ing Vice, Sin We Must Copy God's Methods Impurity Is Devouring Our Race Its Ramifications In Business, In Religion, In Society, In Politics, In the -Home, Everywhere The Fight Against Impurity Its Progress Its 8oltllers Its Efforts and Results, Present and Future. flflBp!psH Now York, .Inn- BPST-. W miry I. I'nstor Wjpjk-i,1 M Itustifll, of the WJJBpkCi'l cl(y Teniplo Con- 3i,Fl RrcBn,' took JKflpk iB for Ills text todny lyWkfy B Ht' 1nu''fl wordM; 17! ' " w I"1 1 " v o r BY? "''"K" n,u i'uro' Ht 'JH things 'JS-' Jt of good roport; If PASTOR gUSSEin tlicrobo nny virtue, vir-tue, nnd If (hero bo nny prnlso, think on IIio.sl- HiIuks." -Phlllpiilnns 9:8. Tho Pastor begun hy ciiIIIiik nttcu-tlon nttcu-tlon to tho will. Then ho showed that tho henrt rejircsents tho renl man, whom wo nre not nlwnys iibio to recognize properly. lie quoted Scripture Scrip-ture to provo tlmt God looks upon tuohcnrt rnthcr (linn upon the out-wnrd out-wnrd nppenrmice, nnd deelniod thnt nil -who dcslrii to he plenslng to God should cnrcfully Hcrutlnlzo their own hearts. As n innn thinks In ITT3 henrt, tho Pnstor ctnlmod, so will he griidnnl-ly griidnnl-ly come to do. The mini who does not think has not properly begun to live, loutliiued tho Pastor. The man with wrons thoughts has before his mind wrong Idenls. nnd Is still wo wo olT. All must ndmlt, he declared, the- truth -of tho 0g. -Apostlo's proposition thnt we must igc think upon good, honorable, Just, pure. 52 lovejy tilings, If wo would have our :3C lives Just, rioulis pure, lovely and lov-CC lov-CC able. The Pastor did not vliooso this sub Ject becnuse Ills congrogntlon Is devoid of good Ideals, but because we nro all apt to let slip gome of those noble Ideals set before us In tho Sculptures. I'he opening of the new year he con- hi aiders to be n very favorable tlmo for lu resetting our henrt affections upon things noble. Just, pure, lovely, nnd for exercising all the will power and resolution wo enn command. Thus wo Iraako character. Then ho reminded his congregation that wo aro nil preaching both by word nnd by action; nnd thnt others aro influenced moro by our notions thnn by our words. As Clod's people, wo nro nil to show forth His praises as wo liavo opportunity. Our ordination ordina-tion Is of God through tho Holy Spirit -tho highest tho only nuthoftty. i Tho World's Purity Congress. Last November Pnstor Itussell wns appointed delegnto to tho World's Purity Pur-ity Congress, which met In Minneapolis, Minneapo-lis, November 7th to lth. Tliero he met n bnud of noblo men nnd women who nro laying down their lives in tho light against sin. Somo labored as Christ's followers; others, from merely a humnnltnrlan standpoint. Tho Pastor then gnvo u resume of tho work of tho Purity Congress. Tho delegates discussed, not merely the evil, but rather the good nnd what must be accomplished that goodmny prevail. Ho was pleased with 'their spirit of moderation, and noted nlso their appreciation of whnt ho has I sought for years to sot forth; namely. I that apparently much of thu sin and vice In the world results from Jgno-ranco Jgno-ranco and superstition, although all must ngreo that there nro people whose vicious conduct enn scarcely bo char-ncterlzed char-ncterlzed us other than wicked, sen-sunl, sen-sunl, devilish. Tho congress devoted much tlt.iu to discussing tho welfare of children, the Pnstor declared. It was demonstrated ' that among the very poor Ideals of chastity aro practically unknown. Theso children possess- knowledge of sex matters beyond their yenra; and. toliiKlIng with others In the schools, they suggest liiimoial practises to those whoso parents have sought carefully to maintain their pin Ity. Tho parental duty of Klving dill-uren dill-uren proper concent inn. ..r n... I !' ?,f. .th?lr lmatn WttH "t lIlHClMW Hi. ihls Information should bo clvon heforo the child enters ncliool; for llrst I 'essons In vlco aro sometimes given I even In. thu klndergnrten, notwlth-I notwlth-I ,,'" "'""K tlle teacher's watchful eye. I iho child should bo orsurcd thnt tho I. parent will Klvo rurtlior Instruction I later on, ami should ha vo 'such couil-I couil-I denco In the pn rent's truthfulness that I h U .V'".11 fr tlmt furt,,w ,,,for-I ,,,for-I matlon which every child's mind seeks I regarding Itself and its origin. Tho Pnstor declared that many par- j cuts do not know how to broach the subject of sex hygiene to their chll- bad habits wulcli will Injure ll.elr own benlth and that of their posterity? ho kl. Vet great care should be ex-erclsed ex-erclsed lest evil be encouraged. Instead In-stead of guarded against From thirteen to fifteen seems to be tho ago when clenr knowledge Is quite ori0.1"??. l? mV0 th0 d,ll,, fro' tin. ovn which has overtaken ninny. The parents, the Pnstor claims, are the Cjod-glven Instructors und protoeto-s of belr flimlllm. Nothing can excuse them from this duty, whether church ork, Hlum work, or cveji Ulble study. |