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International Sunday School Lesson for June 21, 1931 SIN OF CAUSING OTHERS TO STtfMBLE \ Printed Verses, Romans 14: 13-23 Golden Text: It Is Good Not to Eat Flesh, Nor to Drink Wine, Nor to Do Anything Whereby Thy Brother Stumbleth. The Lesson Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge ye this , rather, that no man put a stumb- 1 lingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling. I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; save that to him who accounteth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For if because of meat thy [ brother is grieved, thou walkest no ' longer in love. Destroy not with thy , meat him for whom Christ died. Let not t..en your good be evil spoken of; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, b\it righteous ness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he that herein serveth Christ is well pleasing to God, and approved of men. So then let us fol low after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. Overthrow not for meat's sr.ke the work of God. All things indeed are clean; how beit it is evil for that man who eat eth with offence. It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to lo anything whereby thy brother si mbteth. The faith which thou ha . have thou to thyself before Gi'i. Happy is he that judgeth not hi ".self in that which he approveth. K- . he that doubteth is condemned if tie eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Comments oh the Lesson Paul's letter to the Romans, from whkl 'his lesson is taken, reads as if it were addressed particularly and directly to the people of the United States today, instead of being di rected to the Roman Christians in the Year of our Lord, 57. Paul was at Corinth, where he stood when on his way to Rome, remaining there for three months, and then being turned toward .Jerusalem where he was ar rested and imprisoned. It was dur ing this three month's stay in Cor inth that the great missionary wrote these letters. He was giving the Ro man Christians instructions in treat ment of the question of the eating, drinking and other customs of the non-Christians. Paul well knew that Christianity would grow only as those who were Christians lived and moved and had their being among the non-Christians. In other words, a Christian's attitude would make his Christianity an appealing cause to others, or it would hinder others in joining the rapidly growing band of the followers of Jesus Christ. The letter from which our printed verses are taken starts otf with Paui's analysis of the customs of the day. lie advises the Christians to receive those who are weak in the faith, but not to doubtful disputa tion.-. for one believeth that he ean i ;V all things, and another is weak an;! believes that he can eat only herbs. Let not him that eateth all th:. despise the one who eateth herb - tlone. Nor should the one who eateth tl! things sit in judgment up <>:?. the i-ne weaker man who eateth NEXT We contribute to your good looks. You can get a Vitalis treat:: ^nt here, the vegetable "il tonic, a bo the Fitch products. It Pays To Look Well SMITH'S BARBER SHOP nothing but herbs. Then Paul em phasizes his remarks by asking: Who art thou, to sit in upon another man's servant? That servant is responsible only to his own master. One man, Paul says, esteems one day above all days and ( another man esteems all days alike. These differences of opinion on the non-essential questions are not to be used as subject of argument but let every man be persuaded in his own 3 as to these things. Just so a man is in partnership with ? looking to God for guidance, and strength and support, jsver nundful of the welfare of those about him, the road which such man is traveling leads direct to the throne. Paul continues his letter by re minding the Roman Christians that no one lives unto himself alone, and no man dieth unto himself, that, whether we live, we live unto the Lord and whether we die, we die unto 'the Lord. So, ^thev- we live m- Hie we are the Lords. For it was to this end that Jesus Christ died, and rose? and ascended, that He might be Lord of both the ^mgand dead Then Paul asks a quesi tion that all ot us need to ask ourseWes today . But "S sia Sm thy the judgment seat of Chiist, i - U,rd has said that every knee sha bow to Him, and every tongue shal 1 confess to God, 30 that ?ch shall give ar> account of himself to God. And then the letter continues with tv,Q nnpnimr verse in today s lesson, another any more but rath*e ^ judge ourselves, that P stumblingblock in the wa> of any other man, nor cause him to iaii. Things, within themselves, aie rst "srSf .SA had been consecrated to an About all the meat that was sold in ^^^"ussrssrixi that had been offered ?? rifices Some people did not oen fwonreldhe had "o ^ruples against eating such meat, put tnt >, Ion that he is VXrsabolt Christians is to respect otheis aDoui L ? those who believed that such meat wm unclean, for their s-ikes then refrain from eating that meat/ Whatever grieves, or hurts your brother, Paul said, should Jk discarded, regai dless of. ^"fb^othel "STdo nothing Sat vriH grieve him, 0" place a stumbling var rwrosa KJE*-* "Tb;cs not eating and drinking, habits ana custom, personal privileges and lib -rties and license, but it is ne<s and peace and joy in the Holy Snirit for he who serves t hrist is after the bigger things, make things the holier things, that make for neace and for things which will edify one another and lift one an Xr up This is so much greater and bigger and better than merely satisfying one's own eluttonous a^ netito with meat or drink. God s woik Elrt&isr* own appetite. |'?Rt5y BSoTOYEEHSTfelSSH. SafctASS-**? W arning / Please take notice anyone caught fish ing on our Thompson River land will be prosecuted to full extent of the law. Gennett LumbeifCo. do, or harmful to another tor him- I self to do. Those who do things that 1 they are in doubt hs to their right to m do, are already condemned both in t their own eyes and in the eyes of 1 God. Whatsoever is not right, is s wrong and is a sin. Any indulgence j in a practice that influences others ( to do wrong, or hinders others in do- t ing right, is a staggering sin. ( Liquor Is Our "Meat" Problem 1 America has no meat problem, as the people had in that day when Paul ( was writing these matchless letters. But America has a more serious j problem than that of meat. It has i the whiskey problem. Paul's letters j have great significance to the Ameri can people. There are those who be- , lieve that the prohibition law is all j wrong, and that it takes away from , a great many people thieir personal liberties. Some men say: "It does me no harm to take a drink of whis key, or to have whiskey about me. Probably so, yet even that question is debatable. But granting that 'John Brown may take a drink of whiskey without its hurting him. What about John Brown's neighbor, or his neigh bor's boy, on his own box? What ef fect and influence will it have upon ! those all about? That is what Paul j ;is telling us about in these letters and I in this great Scripture. v We do know that whiskey is bad? for every one within the reach of its influence. It is bad for the man who drinks it. It is bad for the family 1 of the man who drinks it. It is bad 'for the community in which the man lives who drinks it. What personal privilege is there, then, so important ; j as to justify the existence of a thing j that is bad for everybody? j Others claim that the prohibition , law is a failure ? and some people go so far as to declare that there is more whiskey consumed now than was consumed before prohibition. Such claims as these are an insult to I the intelligence of the American peo ple. The prohibition laws have not been as successfully enforced as they could and should have been, due to many causes. One chief cause is that so many church members and pro fessing Christians have locked arms and linked interests with the whis key element that it is hard to fully enforce the law. The younger people may easily be led to believe that there is as much whiskey consumed now as before the enactment of the Volstead law because they know noth ing about the former conditions. Those of us who lived when the sal oon was the master of everything about it, know that such claims are as false as hell itself. j Paul says it is not good to eat flesh, or to drink wine, or to do any thing that will cause a brother to stumble, personal liberty or no per sonal liberty. I know what I am talking about when I say to you that i the giving of one drink of \vhiske,\ has caused many men to suffer the tortures of hell, drove women to dis traction and rubbed little children ol food and warmth and clothing There are men in your community right now who are working hard fot their families, striving to do the right thing, yet who would -be ruined for days and weeks should they tal;i the first drink of whiskey. That first one leads on to more and more and more, and leads into the mire and the mud and the murky ways of low life. Would you place a saloon un der such a man's nose, simply be cause some fellow reared un on h: hind legs and shouted thai he must have his personal liberties. "Ah, shucks!' 'you say, "mat man should not be so weak." What made him weak? What is his weakness? The very fact that strong men grow weak when .they acquire an anpetite for liquor is the strongest condemna tion it is possible to make of liquor. Anything that is so destructive in its gripping power that it makes the man who uses it change from a real man into a weakling, is by its very nature a thing to be shunned by the individual and by society. The prohibition law is blamed for the power of gangland today in the United States. Statistics show that only 20 percent of the revenues col lected by gang chiefs come from handling whiskey and beer. Industry and commcrce pay 80 per cent of these bills, and this is largely due to cowardice on the part of tlios ? pay ing the demanded revenues, coupled with the fact that many officers of the law are in cahoots with the gangs. Yet prohibiton gets the blame for all of gangland's operations. Peo ple forget the boss of the ward, un der the old regime. The saloon was the boss ? boss of politics, boss of ev erything about it. When professing Christians do as they are told to do here in this letter i to the Romans, and throughout this j great Book of Books, the prohibition | laws will be enforced. Destroy not i with thy meat the man for whom I Jesus Christ died. When a man j places whickey within reach of his Southern Ry. System Special Excursions Friday, June 19, 1931 RATES from Asheville to Washington $13.50 Richmond 11.50 Norfolk 12.50 0/ Pt. Comfort 12.50 Virginia Beach 13.00 LIMIT: 5 Days Saturday, June 20th to all T exas points at rate of one fare plus twenty-five cents (25c) f<?r round-trip, final lim it returning July 12th. ASK TICKET AGENTS J. H. Wood Div. Passenger Agent Asheville, N. C. II >rother he is not only violating the Volstead law ? he is violating a law 'ar greater than any ever enacted in he Congress of the United States, ie is violating the laws of God, and letting at naught the great suffering ind sacrifices endured by Jesus Christ who died on the cross to save ;he very man that we are sending to iestruction when we place whiskey ivithin his reach. Jesus Christ died to save men. He jave His life that others might live. Are we, as His followers, not will ing then to surrender what we call the personal liberty in order to save men? There is no argument in favor of whiskey, because there is nothing to its credit. Whiskey has never done( any good any where at any time. Whiskey has destroyed more men than ail other causes combined. Whis key has ruined more lives than all other causes combined. Whiskey has wrecked n\ore homes, broken more hearts, caused more gray hairs, put more children in rags, caused more hunger and want, sent more women to the yrashtub, than any other agency that the Devil has ever had at his command. The problem is still with us, even with prohibiten. Men are still mak ing it, because other men buy it and drink it. The church is not doing very much to assist in the enforce ment of th? arohibition law, because so many members of the church buy it and drink it, some of them being in partnership with the maker or seller, or both. Just as soon as pro fessing Christians become real Chris tians, the prohibition law will be in full force and effect. When we fol low after things ( which make for peace, and edify one another, then whiskey will be barred. Whiskey cannot edify any one ? it degrades them and destroys them. Nearly half the population of the United States belong to the church. Church members ought to be Chris tians. Christians ought to be, and must be, willing to obey the scrip tures. Whenever the church members, therefore, reach the point that the life, death, resurrection and ascen sion of Jesus Christ means more than that insignificant little appeal of per sonal liberty,- then we shall be free from destructive influences of whis key. ^ us Show $ou why Firestone do not manufacture special brand tires for ? j to distribute ? but they do make a complete line of tires for us. bear ing the Firestone name and guarantee, that not only meets the prices but beats any special brand tire distributed by mail order houses or others in Quality and Construction, giving greater values. Firestone have invested $25,000,000.00 with Firestone Deal ers in establishing the most economical distributing and ser vicing system in the world. 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