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— HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY. CFORRIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
Moral Code Result of Long Stru^de
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Some women never cease gelling into romantic mischief. They go on into wrinkles
and gray hair, still looking for conquests, still secretly proud because men continue to
be selfishly attentive to them.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
TWO words that used to
play an enormous part in
American family life are
“duty” and “morality.” These
terms went out of fashion a long
while ago; our younger genera
tion wouldn’t know how to ap
ply them to general behavior.
Duty, they think, means do
ing certain disagreeable things
whether you want to or not. And
what a nerve anyone has to tell
you what you should or
shouldn’t do!
Morality means not lying,
not talking scandal, keeping
your word, keeping your
thoughts and your actions
pure, conquering in your soul, as
much as you can, feelings of hate,
revenge, jealousy, lust, anger. Not
being intemperate. Not being proud.
Not being selfish.
“Isn’t it comfortable to be good?”
one of the wisest women I know
said one day.
♦Secret of Married Bliss.
So that when an old wife talks
to a younger one, and advises her
to make humility and patience, for
giveness and understanding a part
of her wedding outfit, she is not ad
vocating a course that leads to mar
tyrdom. She is giving the bride the
secret of married happiness. She
is telling her that she will be hap
pier in the long run, will indeed be
one of the truly successful and con
tented women of the world, if she
goes into matrimony armed with a
sense of duty and a strong deter
mination to keep the moral law.
Once that law is accepted firmly
nothing else matters.
Here is a letter from a woman
whose experience unfortunately is
somewhat typical today. It is just
possible that if some good mother,
20 years ago, had given her a sound
respect for morality and duty her
story might have been different.
“Twelve years ago I was madly
in love with a doctor I will call
Bill,” she writes me. “He loved
me, too, but he didn’t want to get
married. It hurt my pride to be the
one most in love, but there was no
help for it, and even though I knew
he wasn’t any paragon, I was weak
enough to give him everything he
asked.
First Love Renewed.
“After awhile he went away, and
I formed a deep affection for an
other man, Frank. Frank was the
one in love now, but I liked him
so much that eventually we were
married, had a nice home, and a
son and daughter. Five years ago
we lost our boy, a grief that caused
me a serious illness. In this illness
my doctor was Bill, who had come
back to town, and soon the old in
fatuation took possession of us both,
with Bill the more ardent this time.
He was married now and had two
little girls.
“Frank discovered our affair and
was heartbroken, as I was also, for
he had always been the kindest and
best of husbands, and had never
known of my affair with Bill. We
were divorced, and Bill was divorced
by his wife, and he and I were mar
ried. Wretchedly unsuited to each
other, this union was doomed from
the first; Bill was always talking
about his first wife and how wonder
ful she was, and I soon discov
ered that he was taking his daugh
ters to lunch once a week and that
■often she joined them.
“I went to Reno, and feeling lone-
A WORD TO THE WISE
What a pity we are so reluctant
to heed good advice! Children
dont like to hoar about such dis
agreeable things as “duty” and
“morality.” And when an older
woman tells a younger one that
the way tp insure the happiness
of her marriage is by patience,
tolerance and forgiveness, the
younger woman is likely to say
something about not wanting to
be a martyr. But the prevalence
of this attitude docs not alter the
fact that only through obeying
the rules of morality can we
achieve that larger freedom
which is so different from mere
willfulness and which is the only
real basis for a lasting happiness.
Let Kathleen Norris tell you why
she might have helped the Geor
gianna of this letter if she had
known her mother twenty years
ago.
ly and blue, associated there with a
group of very rich people who
thought of only good times. Among
them was an attractive man of 50
who devoted himself to me. I con
fess that my mood was one of reck
lessness and irresponsibility. I
made several trips with him to San
Francisco and let him make me
some very handsome gifts.
“But all the while my heart was
steadily turning back to Frank, and
the security and happiness we had
known in our home, with our beau
tiful little girl. I longed for them
both, and for my husband’s advice
and understanding. When I re
ceived a letter from him saying that
he felt the same way, and that
Tanya needed her mother, my heart
was filled with joy for the first time
in years. But ‘the Squire,’ as I
call my Reno friend, also wants me
to marry him. He has been three
times divorced, but in two cases it
has been to free his wife for a mar
riage she desired. The first time
it was from a woman 28 years his
senior; he was but 27 then.
Seeks True Happiness.
“Can you help me find my way
to true happiness through this mesh
of mistakes? I know lam a foolish,
weak woman, although I have never
consciously done anything that
could hurt anyone but myself. But
I do want to be happy even though
I am 32 now and don’t expect the
raptures of young love again. The
Squire has little money, but he lives
in New York and knows everyone
worth knowing. To go back to
Frank, on the other hand, means
my old environment, my old friends,
and my little girl. Which way lies
wisdom?”
Georgianna, who writes this let
ter, includes a picture of herself, a
pardonable bit of vanity, for she is
a beautiful woman. Slim, well
dressed, with a smart hat sweeping
off her face and her hands in the
pockets of a magnificent fur coat,
she looks capable of getting into a
lot more mischief before she is
through. Such women, in truth,
never get through. They go on into
wrinkles and crimps and gray hair
still looking for conquests; still
secretly proud of themselves be
cause men continue to be selfishly
attentive to them.
I have no advice for her. She
wouldn’t take it anyway. But if I
had known her mother 20 years ago
x might ha.ve been able to say some
| thing that would have been helpful.
Something about morality and duty.
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SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for November 2
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
LESSON TEXT—Galatians 6:7, 8; I John
X:5-2:6.
GOLDEN TEXT—If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and Just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous
ness.—l John 1:9.
Sin is an appalling reality, hideous
and horrible in itself, and bearing
with it the gravest consequences
both in this life and in the life to
come. Man does not find it pleasant
to face that fact, and so he makes
light of sin and even may go so far
as to deny its existence. Obviously
such an expedient does nothing to
solve the difficulty or to meet the
gnawing distress of a heart facing
and fearing the judgment of God.
Far better to meet the reality of
it, admit its awfulness, and seek
God’s way of full deliverance. Sin,
which came into the world when
man listened to Satan and disobeyed
God in the Garden of Eden, has
gone on to mar and to mark all
mankind. We note that
I. Sin Brings Corruption (Gal. 6:
7,8).
Seedtime is followed by harvest.
This is the law of nature, the law
of God. The farmer who sowed
wheat in the spring looked for wheat
when the harvest time came. The
same principle holds in the spiritual
realm. Jusi as the one who sows
to the Spirit reaps eternal life, the
one who sows to the flesh reaps
corruption, and death.
A life of self-indulgence (which is
sowing to the flesh) brings moral
decay. The weakened will yields
to desire, and it “bringeth forth sin:
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death” (James 1:14, 15). This
death is spiritual, bringing separa
tion from God, a loss of fellowship
and communion with Him. Spiritu
al death as well as physical death
came upon mankind through Adam’s
sin.
11. Sin Loves Darkness (I John
1:5-7).
There is not a bit of darkness in
God. He is light. When Jesus
came into the world, He came as
the Light of the World. But “men
loved darkness rather than light, be
cause their deeds were evil. For
every one that doeth evil hateth the
light, neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved”
(John 3:17-21).
The corollary of that truth is that
a man who says he has fellowship
with God, but continues to walk in
darkness, brands himself a liar (v.
6). Compare Revelation 21:27-28 for
what God thinks of liars.
The light still shines, and the one
who is walking in darkness has only
to step over into the light (v. 7)
where he will find fellowship with
all God’s people and know the
cleansing of the blood of the Son of
God.
111. Sin Is an Undeniable Fact
(I John 1:8-10).
It seems impossible that a man
who knows himself and knows the
life he lives would ever deny sin,
for it is one of the most evident of
all facts. Yet men have denied it,
or sought to explain it away, calling
it error, or a “fall upward,” or a
step in man’s development, or the
evidence of man’s self-conscious
ness and desire to learn.
There is no hope for a man as
long as he assumes such an atti
tude, for he not only lies himself,
but he makes God a liar. He denies
the truth of God’s Word about sin,
makes meaningless or wicked God’s
dealings with sin, and reveals that
God’s Word is not in him. Those
who make such statements declare
that they do not belong to God and
do not accept His Word. It is evi
dent that they ought never to be per
mitted to teach such things in the
church, or in the name of Chris
tianity.
IV. Sin Calls for a Saviour (1
John 2:1-6).
Christ the propitiation, the mercy
seat covering for our sins, is the
only Saviour. He paid the price,
and made it possible for God to be
just and at the same time a justi
fier of the ungodly. The sinner
needs such a Saviour.
Sin in the life of the believer also
calls for a Saviour, one who will
cleanse us (1:9) and who will in
His own blessed name plead our
cause “if we sin.” He is our Advo
cate (2:1) pleading His righteous
ness in our behalf when we do fall.
This does not mean that we may
then become indifferent or careless
about sin. If we say we know Him
and do not keep His commandments,
we lie about our professed relation
ship to Him. The mark of a true
child is a spirit of obedience.
God’s children prove their love
to Him by keeping His command
ments. Talking about our devo
tion to Him, giving our service for
Him, or sacrificing for His cause
mean nothing if we do not obey
Him. We only pile evidence upon
evidence of our untruthfulness by
making claims and doing things
which are negated by our disobedi
ence.
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Tashkent, 585,005; Tbilisi (Tiflis),
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