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Christian Citizenship and Righteous Civil Government
INE vital purpose of the Civic League of
America is to promote the study and
I practice of civilization from the stand
point of the Bible and sound morality.
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Private duties and publie* duties run in paral
lel lines —he that sins against the one does in
jury to himself —he that falters in the other
does injury to the common welfare.
Sound morality is essential to good citizen
ship and righteous civil government, and sound
morality means salvation from sin. “There is
away that seemeth right unto a man, but the
end thereof are the ways of death.” From the
fourth chapter of the Acts and other chapters
of the Bible we find that no one can be saved
from sin—its guilt, power and consequences —
except by Jesus Christ. And we can render
another no loftier benefaction, we can yield
him no such supreme service as to bring him
into personal acceptance of and fellowship with
Jesus Christ. Any other kindness we may do
another pales before this.
The world will never be won to Christ by the
pulpits alone. The church of Christ must do
the work of Christ. Every Christian is under
obligation to help in evangelizing the world.
The preaching of the pulpit reaches many, but
there are other millions that can be reached by
the printed page and the love and kindness of
the friendly human heart.
A large portion of the people seldom, if ever,
enter a church. Especially is this true in the
large cities and among the working classes, It
is claimed that fully 55 per cent, of the able
bodied population in America never go to
church, 25 per cent, go occasionally, and only
20 per cent, regularly.
The church member who is not an evangelist
God. Among the number was the
great Wilberforce who afterward
wrote “Practical Views of Christiani
ty,” which in turn was used of God to
bring a vast number into a saving
knowledge of the truth as it is in Je-
WATER HELPS SOUTH CAROLINA
MINISTER.
Last summer, after undergoing medi
cal treatment for kidney trouble at
Baltimore, where he submitted to an
operation at the famous Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Rev. A. McA. Pittman,
of Carlisle, S. C., lost forty pounds in
weight. He writes: —“I found it nec
essary to take laxative medicines to
keep my liver and kidneys active. But
since I began to drink Shivar Spring
Water six months ago, morning, noon
and night, I have not taken a grain of
medicine of any kind, and now weigh
one hundred and eighty pounds —about
thirty pounds more than my usual
w'eight. I am now doing more work,
and harder work, than at any time
within the nearly forty years of my
ministerial life.
Shivar Spring water is probably the
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one to try it personally without risk.
Deposit $2 with the Shivar Spring Com
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demijohns of this celebrated water. If you
do not receive any benefit after using the
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demijohns, wtih your statement to this
effect, and your money will be refunded
—every cent of it Your word is accepted
without question.
The fact that this water has exception
ally wonderful curative powers has led Mr.
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Shivar is personally known to the adver
tising manager of this paper, who can as
sure you of the honesty of his offer Ad
dress your letter to N. F. Shivar, Shivar
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is missing his opportunities and-mistaking his
calling. It is not necessary that all should ad
dress audiences. The quiet evangelism which
makes no parade of its purposes, plans or do
ings, is often wonderfully more effective.
There are various ways of winning souX but
the gospel message of salvation as a gift can
be brought to the attention of the unconverted
in no w T ay that is more convenient, inexpensive
and effective than by means of tracts or the
sending each week into a home that needs it a
paper that stands for the things our Golden
Age does. The clearest expositions of gospel
truth, the most striking illustrations, and the
choicest thoughts are to be found in religious
literature.
These gems of Christian truth are for both
the unconverted and the comforting, uplifting
force of Christians of every class. Thousands
of Chri tians have been immeasurably blessed
by reading the earnest, helpful words of Moody,
Spurgeon, Monod, Miss Havergal, and a host of
other writers who have used the religious press.
To other thousands the same kind of truths
w r ould be the inspiration needed to lift them to
a higher plane of Christian life.
To get, we must give; to accumulate, -we must
scatter; to make ourselves happy, we must
make others happy; and in order to become
spiritually vigorous, we must seek the spiritual
good of others.
Tracts or religious papers often open the way
for conversation and are better than spoken
words; besides, you can send these silent mes
sengers to places where you cannot convenient
ly go yourself, and the regular, constant habit
of sending them by mail would be the means
of comforting numerous troubled hearts and of
sus, one of whom was Leigh Rich
mond, who wrote the tract entitled
“The Dairyman’s Daughter,” of which
hundreds of thousands have been pub
lished in our own and foreign lan
guages, and which has been blessed
of God to the salvation of uncounted
multitudes. The tide of influence
which was started b ythat religious
tract which came into the hands of
Richard Baxter and which is extend
ing and growing broader and deeper,
and will continue to flow on until it
reaches the shores of an endless eter
nity you can duplicate if you will.
Who can measure the influence of one
little tract or one paper each week go
ing into the home and life of both the
saved and unsaved with its helpful
message?
“And they that be wise shall shine
as the brightnes sos the firmament;
and they that turn many to righteous
ness as the stars forever and ever.”
“Righteousness exalteth a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.*
The Civic League of America stands
for Christian Citizenship, and for
righteous civil government in City,
State and Nation—for Christ and His
law as the true basis of government,
and the supreme authority in National
and individual life, its claim is that
Christ rightly formed in the heart will
solve all social, politica and commer
cia evils.
Public spirited citizens everywhere,
male and female, desirous of promot
ing the public ewlfare, are cordially
invited to become members and to
co-operate in carrying out the pur
poses of the League.
The Golden Age for June 19, 1913
After severely rebuking a young
man who had been laughing and talk
ing during the service, a brother step
ped up to the minister and said: “My
brother, you have made a great blun
der today. That young man you re
proved is ‘an idiot, and we always look
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turning many sinners to Salvation.
There are innumerable ways in which such
literature may be used. Enclose them in cir
culars, packages, and library books. Lay them
on the table in your parlor and guest chamber.
Leave them in the cars or hotels. Give them
to the bootblack or newsboy. Drop them on
the doorstep or sidewalk. Give them to the
postman, the policeman, the meatman, and the
milkman. Toss them into the saloon. Send
them to your customers, your neighbors, and
your employees in the city, town and country.
Send them to boys and girls off at school, and
to the operatives in the factories. Enclose them
in parcels of merchandise from your store.
G ve them to the inmates of jails, almshouses,
and ho pitals. Use them at the entrance and
on the outside of Races, Circuses, and Theatres,
and in many other ways, whenever and where
ever you can.
We shall never know all the good which
comes from this kind of silent preaching. Eter
nity alone can reveal the number of souls that
have found Christ through the blessing of God
upon His truth presented in this way. There
are many remarkable cases on record bub, for
want of space, we will here only mention What
One Tract Did. To a very wicked man named
Richard Baxter a tract was given one day,
through reading of which he was converted.
In after years he wrote a book entitled “A Call
to the Unconverted,” which was the means of
bringing multitudes to Christ, one of whom was
Philip Doddridge, author of the well known
book, “Rise and Progress of Religion in the
Soul,” by which thousands and tens of thou
sands have been brought into the Kingdom of
over his misbehavior.” The minister
said he had always been afraid, since
thus blundering, to reprove misbeha
vior in church, taking it for granted
that any one who would act the fool
in the church, or at religious services,
must indeed be a pitiabli idiot.