| Show RESTRAINT IS PROPER all success in life means restraint from that which wastes the powers of the individual and this restraint reet to ie lawful because its effect Is ig to benefit and blew bless while abile sin an opposite course leads to destruction if human beings were to exercise no restraint over appetites petites and desires that frequently are very strung strong they would soon eoon descend orrlow low the brute creation lor for we the rea sou that they would cast aside that gem of intelli exit ent control of self which to le the glory and power of man notwithstanding all the assaults that are made by agnostics or atheists atheist the fact is undeniable in the history of our race that the restraint which given the greatest force to man la Is applied in re legious principles pies religion having its in a albere higher than mortality Is ie the means berds to direct man mans a intellectual powers from channels of waste and destruction to those of growth and preservation from akcay and when principles have been demonstrated as truly re legious in the sense that they accod this end people who are wise in their own behalf abide by them despite shafts of abuse or ridicule that thai may lie be hurled against them I 1 the be work of the tempter Is 1 to beguile people mople to depart from stion principles hence when we see a man cast aside the religious leus restraint referred to and come out oat and assert his independence thereof it is a common experience to obieree 0 bier ve the emissaries of the tempter hearing and applauding him individuals divi duals before then had no worl of censure too severe or bid who had no sympathy with his efforts and aims now crowd around and urge him on as doing something a marl and 16 brave 20 and in the abe blindness of conceit that of ten tee i biffl afi ets eta him under such conditions the oue ole so applauded seldom discovers until too late laie that the applause he be receives is but bot fur for his bis independence or courage lor for the right but because he has become rebellious to the spirit of proper restraint that would keep him irom from wrong but even it be does not make the discovery others who are not impelled by ulterior moti motives and who b hold bold the perform ai to ce ough t to pause be ore helping him mown the he grade by falling ioto into the way ol 01 expressions of that would encourage him in his bis recal reca toward his former position and friends the sincerity of their fur for him bina lead them to warn him against the encomiums and applause ut those ano seek to turn him from the abe right men who bee beame ime heady beady and rebellious proper restraint usually forget that pride goeth before a tall fall and a haughty spirit before I an alleged independence that to la nothing more then a rebellious disregard of proper restraint never yet brought good to the be people who indulged in it |
