THE SABBATH.

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE SABBATH.

TOIL ON ! (II Corinthians vi, 1) To talk with God no breath is lost— Talk on, talk on; To walk with God no strength is lost— Walk on, walk on: ! To wait on God no time is lost— Wait on, wait on: : To grind the axe no work is lost— Grind on. grind on; 1 The work is better, quicker done, | Nor needing half the strength laid on. Grind on, grind on; i Martha stood, but .Mary sat: Martha murmured much at that; Martha cared but Mary heard. Listening to the Master's Word, \nd the Lord her choice preferred; Sit on. hear on; Work without Gud is labour lost; Work on, work on; ; Full soon you'll learn it to your cost; Toil on, toil on; Little is much when God is in it; Mucii is little everywhere; Man's busiest day is not worth God's minute. If 'God the labour does not share- . Go, work with God. and nothing's lost, Who works with Him does best and | most — Work on, work on. —Hudson Taylor. WHERE IS LIBERTY? ' MORAL AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM (Albert F. Engel; | Cursory examination of mankind’s ! present status of moral and economic : freedom reveals a surpr/ang lack of \ liberjy, in its true sense. Starting j with the individual, and following I through groups, communities, states | and nations, inquiry discloses a state ! of existence largely devoid of peace, ' satisfaction, dominion, harmony. Why? i Have the powers of self-government and individual human control been disbanded? No, But the false education adduced by substitutes for humanity’s privilege of self-determin-ation have tended to make many people lose sight of certain Essentials of Liberty. More specifically, what are some of the conditions of liberty, and how may the ever-availablc state of true ; freedom be compassed? Let us 1 glance for a moment into a prison cell an dials k its inmate how he was deprived of his freedom. He will probably reply; “I broke the law.” Here, then, we have ethics ignored, as the cause of liberty's flight. And another scene- A sick man is encountered. Lying on his bed bemoaning his condition, we learn from him of broken morals—fear, hatred, bitterness, envy, revenge. Are we to assume that industrial

leaders, stockholders, and all employers are without a knowledge of the Golden Rule? And by the same token, has the labour group forgotten that old adage, “If you do no more than you are paid for, you will never be paid for more than you do?” Let the worker and the employer beware of the elimination of individual initiative, for therein germinate the seeds of liberty’s lost cause. Reason and the dictates of conscience are verily the basis for conciliation and the estab lishment of freedom in any group ' activity. “But governments,” one may say, "are quite different. They move irrespective of the laws of ethics or reason.” Because they sometimes do so, does it follow that such precedent establishes the law of the highest right —the law of immunity No. Liberty, freedom, righteous privilege, . candour, self-determination—these are all untouched by the erroneous action of ignorance, whether promulgated individually or collectively. The quali- . ties of liberty are divinely immutable! * And thus we come to the true background of this brief tableau. God is the only lawmaker, and from 'Him j emanate all rights, independence, emancipation. How strange that many men of supposedly superior knowledge should have overlooked this fact. Blindly, a large part of humanity has turned in its dilemma, every way but towards God. The Teaching of the Ages is clear. The need and desire for liberation is rife. Why, then, should will not look to Him Whose beloved - Son is our Wayshower, for surcease from the vicissitudes of temporal bondage ? , j Surely, if we will earnestly seek we shall find the answer to the question, ’ “Where is Liberty?” Speaking of the essential need for turning the heart [ la the Lord( the Apostle Paul, being converted, and therefore wiser than his contemporaries, said (II Corinthians, 3:17), "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” MOTIVES It Is motive alone that gives character to the action of man.— Bniyere. He that does good for good’s sake, seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.—William Penn. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy. The morality of an action depends upon the motive from which we act.— , Samuel Johnson. ! In the works of man as in those of nature it is the intention which is chiefly worth studying.— Goethe. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.—Macaulay.