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City of Covington.
To Our Graduates
As we come to the end of another school year with
war clouds hovering darkly overhead our earnest prayer
is that this country will be spared from the dreadful
catastrophe which is now striking Europe with all its
ghastly forces of mechanized destruction.
Once more the various high Schools over our county
and state are turning out into the world a fine group of
graduates. These boys and girls have received the very
best training possible and are now about to enter upon
young manhood and young womanhood.
Their eyes are bright with anticipation of entering
into the business world or higher education. They have
within their grasp the good things of life. They have the
priceless heritage of youth. They are the citizens of to
morrow and the world will be better or sadder for each
according to the life they live and the God they choose to
worship.
S«d a, it may be M will worship idols of gold, clay.
position, . pleasure, selfishness and their lives will suffer
or
theieb\. Others wn! worship the only true and Living
God. They will be kind, generous, tolerant, helpful and
happy and their lives will grow and expand each day they
live, and will make the world a better place in which
to live.
It seems-there could hardly he any choice as to the
life each will choose, but some will follow false prophets.
They will close their eyes and ears to the gospel of Love
and kindness and enter whole heartedly in the worship of
the god of selfishness and greed.
This has been the history of every graduation class.
History will repeat in 1940 as it has done for these many
years past. You boys and girls will have to choose your
own life and it would seem that the choosing would be
eas 3 r , but it will be difficult as it has ever been.
We sincerely trust that the percentage of those who
will follow the god of avarice and greed will be less this
year and will continue to grow less in the years to come.
For all of you our heart is filled with love and kind
ness. We hope for each and every one a life full of hap
piness and a prosperity and we are herewith giving you
the recipe which will guarantee this.
We know this recipe for we have tried it and seen
it tried and it has never failed. So boys and girls we say
to you : “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His right
eousness and all these things will be added unto you.”
By “all these things” we mean health, wealth and
happiness. There is r\o other way in which these may be
achieved. Surely you will want “all these things . and .
will find peace and happiness in securing them.
We can’t help hut envy you as you “enter the scene
with high hopes and buoyant prospects.” We hope the
world will be kind to you and you will not be subjected
to the horrors of war which seem so distressingly near.
We trust you will live in peace and will observe tolerance
in all things.
Remember to give everyone the right to their own
opinions on those things which do not conflict with the
laws of God and man. Tolerance is a great thing and
if practiced in the true sense of the word will guard you
from many heartaches and pitfalls.
Our last and most important admonition to you is
in the words of the prophet Jeremiah: “Prove all
hold fast to that which is good.”
“As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path advances,
May that side the sun’s upon
Be all that e’er shall meet thy glances.”
The Rights Of Man
The Walter-Logan bill, which is now up in Congress
is about as important and necessary a piece of legislation .
as America's lawmakers have ever considered.
T n W nrds ldS 0t of Mark Sullivan oUlm an, the the hill bill “trues goes to to the the
heart , Lei of what f is troubling + the country and the world—
the conflict between the rights of men, and the authority
of government.” And never in our long history was thkt
conflict so bitter and intense.
The Walter-Logan bill is aimed specifically at the
arbitrary exercise of vaguely defined authority by bureaus
and commissions. And many an American citizen has
discovered what the exercise of power means. We have
established, principally in recent years, a great number of
new bureaus for various purposes. The laws authorizing
these bureaus have often purposely been made general,
to the extent that even the proverbial Philadelphia lawyer
can’t discover where their powers begin and where they
end. And the result has been that government officials
have at times made themselves into prosecutor, judge
and jury, all in one. Rules and regulations may be
changed from day to day. Interpretations of the law
be revolutionized overnight. And the ordinary citizen,
who cannot afford the time and money that years of liti
gation in the Federal courts demand, is helpless.
The Walter-Logan bill doesn't to limit % the
propose
authority of a government or weaken its functions in any
way. It simply provides that when a board or bureau
makes a decision which the litigant thinks wrong, he may
have an immediate appeal to a judicial body. To quote
Mr. Sullivan again, “That is the same as saying, and no
more than saying, that every man shall be entitled to his
day in courf.” And the late Senator Logan, when
introducing his bill, described it in these words: “The
sole issue here presented to Congress is whether \ye shall
have a government by men or a government by law.”
We all know what a government by men
abroad at Europe. The vital purpose of the Walter
Wan bill is to prevent that here. And no bill conic,
moie \ilal puipo^e.
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Danger In The Far East
The United States still watches bloody Europe. But,
in view of statesmen and foreign experts, we should he
keeping a closer eye on the Far East. For there is the
most immediate threat to American peace and security.
Hitler’s invasion of Holland brought with it a situa
tion that the State Department has long expected and
dreaded. Within reach of Japan are the rich Dutch
East Indies, principal source oFthe world’s supply of tin
and rubber. The Indies could not be defended by the
small Dutch navy and garrison stationed there, and Britain
and France are too busy elsewhere to protect them. They
j would make a rich prize for ambitious Japan, and would
intensely increase her economic and military prestige.
So, say military men, if Japan makes a grab for them, it
will be up to us to stop her.
Secretary Hull has sent strong warning notes on (his
subject to Nippon. And the Japanese position, as ex
pressed by her Premier, has been that of satisfaction at
the maintenance of the status quo. But the Indies are
still a danger spot.
j Sunday School Lesson
JEREMIAH ANNOUNCES THE
NEW COVENANT
Lesson: Jeremiah 31.
Golden Text: I will put my law
in their inward parts, and in their
hearts will I write it; and I will
be their God, and they shall be
my people. Jeremiah 31:33.
Jeremiah stands like a moun
tain peak in the spiritual history
of the world. Perhaps no one
among the Old Testament proph
ets influenced Jesus so much as
he did.
While all the seers and proph
forma ii sm , stm Jeremi , h „„
really be called the father of spir
itual religion as we know it to
day. His great emphasis upon the
inward nature of true faith makes
him the precursor of Christianity.
The teachings of our Lord seem
to indicate that he drew more in
spiration from Jeremiah than
from any other prophet.
True religion begins by telling
us what evils we should avoid and
leads us to see what virtues and
spiritual graces we should seek.
Distrust the religious sincerity
of any man who wants to cast the
Old Testament aside as useless.
That Old Testament contains the
Ten Commandments, the teachngs
of the prophets, and all the great
spiritual verities which are ful
filled in the New Testament.
But good as the old covenant
was it had proved itself inade
quate because while it told men
what they ought to do, it lacked
the power to help them to do it.
It laid great emphasis on external
forms, because by it a nation was
to be tuaght how to worship God.
But with the passing of time, men
gave their allegiance to the form
an d forgot the substance,
By so doing they broke the cov
enant; for the Bible teaches con
sistently that it is not the letter of
the law but the spiri which gives
life.
Jeremiah was a Christian six
hundred years before the coming
of Christ. Devoted as he was to
the law of Moses, he saw that at
best it only prepared men’s hearts
for the coming of greater divine
gifts.
Jesus Christ was the fulfilment
of the Law and the Prophets.
Looking into the future, Jere
miah declared that God would
make a new' covenant with the
house of Israel and the house of
Judah. It was to be a new cove
nant; not a substitute for the old,
but an outgrowth of the old.
Whereas the old had dealt with
externals, the new laid its empha
sis upon inward things. The old
law had been written on tables
of stone; the new law was to be
written on men’s hearts.
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I s 10 iesult ln se%enty y ears « ex
ile for his people, j eremiah saw a
new and better religion rising out
0 f the ashes of the old.
He could stand unafraid before
the political, eclesiastical, and
theological changes, because he
knew that change means not the
death of religion, but its rebirth.
Jeremiah’s great contribution to
religious faith came from the fact
that he saw with perfect clear
ness the inward spiritual nature
of all true religion.
He was not the enemy of forms,
creeds and rituals; he only insist
ed that these things should be
kept in their proper place, which
is secondary. Through this great
prophets who agonized so much
over his people, God sent the
j great message that religion never
re ally makes a difference in life
until it lays hold of the human
heart. The Law of God was to be
come a part of man, until hi s ac
tlons would flow not from extern
but from a renewed
The Christian Gospel was not
revealed to Jeremiah in its ful
ness but as the glorious glow of
sunrise upon a dark horizon. He
1 saw the coming of a new and bet
ter day when religion would not
be sterile forms or stern thou
shalt -not’s, but a new power and
^P ,lltin theheart of man arising
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Old Testament character he ap
preciated those elements of spirit
ual religipn which were later to
be the basis of the Christian Gos
pel. He knew that religion in the
best sense of the term is not some
thing that a man accepts, but
something that lays hold power
fully on a man’s heart. His mes
sage was, therefore, that men were
to seek after religion with the
whole of their being. It was to
dominate life from the greatest
things to the smallest.
"What God meant man to be He
showed forth by fashioning a man
to whom all could look for ex
ample, and by whom, as they
yield their hearts to him, men
might know the power of God’s
salvation.
We live in a day when God’s
will for us has been revealed in a
manner far better than anything
Jeremiah knew. He was one of
God’s great noblemen, but he lived
under the old dispensation, be
fore God had flooded the world
with the glory of a new spiritual
sunrise. It was in our Lord Jesus
that God perfectly fulfilled his
promise to make known His will
to all men from the greatest to the
least, to forgive their iniquity
through the shed blood of the
Righteous One, and to put men’s
sins behind Him.
We can understand why many
of Jesus’ contemporaries believed
him to be Jeremiah raised from
the dead.
The Old Testament prophet
caught the vision of God’s glory,
and the Saviour through whom
the new covenant was fulfilled
showed it forth in all its divine
fulness.
In verse 35 of our lesson text,
Jeremiah describes Jehovah as one
“who giveth the sun for a light by
by day, and the ordinance of the
moon and of the stars for a light
by night ...” He had advanced
far beyond many thinkers of his
day who regarded Jehovah as the
chief God among many gods. To
Jeremiah there was but one God
who also gave the sun for light by
day and the moon and stars to
make the night lovely.
With such an idea of God, it is
only natural that Jeremi h should
have felt very confident that di
vine help would be given when
neede. With an oath that could
not be violated, God promised the
Jews through Jeremiah that He
would never forsake them.
Twenty-six hundred years later
they are, in spite of persecution
throughout the ages, still intact as
a tribe dispersed throughout the
world and powerful in their in
fluence.
The divine promise was that
God would hold the Jews together
as a people just as surely as He
would make the sun and the moon
to shine. He went on further to
! say that if men could measure the
heavens and the foundations of
j the earth beneath - which of
course is impossible^-then would
He, Jehovah, cast off all the seed
of Israel for what they had done.
The promise was made not only
to the Jews but to the Christians
as well. For Christianity is the
extension and the development of
the religion of the Jews. Jere
miah’s chief message was that re
ligion is a thing of the heart; that
we must be right through and
through if we would please God.
Jesus fulfilled that message in all
his teachings and died that he
might cleanse men's hearts and
make true inward experience pos
sible
He will never leave us nor for
sake us. The divine Being who
holds the sun and moon in his
hands and “who stirreth up the
sea, so that the waves thereof
roar,” has power enough to han
dle any situation in your life and
mine which needs to be handled.
And He will never forsake us.
The power in his hands is at our
disposal. If in penitence we seek
Him, we shall find that in love
He has sought us.
“The soul that on Jesus hath
leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to his
foes;
That soul, though all hell should
endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no, never, no never- j
forsake” j
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"The M eaner"
-4 SERMON—
By Rev. Athol D. Cloud
The following is the third in
stallment of a sermon “The Wea
ver >” b y Rev - Atho1 D - Cloud,
pastor of the Porterdale Presby
terian Church. This installment is
a continuation of that no'-tion of
the sermon run last week as "The
Swiftness of the Shuttle.”
“The great preacher, Dr. Harry
Emmerson Fosdck, tells how as a
boy he used to go fishing with his
father in a rowboat on the Niagara
River, coming back at night to
their landing place at Buffalo.
Speaking of that experience, Dr.
Fosdick tells us that rs he and
his father came back down the
river at night toward their land
ing place and drew near to Buf
falo, they were in exactly the
same position that many souls are
i.i today. Should they stop at Buf
falo? They might say Yes to that
question, or they might say Nd.
But if they tried to be neutral
and put off making a decision, the
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