MONDAY. JAHUAnV 12. 11- PAGE 4 wua uu n a rr. iwi as ww sm uuu n u a . m 1 -. i 1 " Cb plattsmoutb journal Published Semi-Weekly at Plattemouth. Nebr. Entered at the Poetofflce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Prloe: S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe DEMOCRATIC PLEDGES. The following pledges of the parly have been carried out by President -Wilson, the senate and the" house of representatives: 1, A revision, of the tariff downward. There was no pro crastination, no creating tariff commission, no delay, but a unit ed effort to . revise the tariff downward. In the passage of the Simmons-Underwood bill, this promise was wholly and satis factorily their protection. 2. An income tax which has been passed and which will force those presons wno are recipients of governmental protection to support and pay for that protec tion. 3. Election ' of the United States senators by popular vote, which has .been performed and made possible. 1. Currency reform, so that the money of the nation cannot be cornered by Wall street bank ers and bring on a financial stringency and panic at their pleasure and for their profit. The passage of the Glass-Owen bill has settled this condition and we have performed what we prom ised. D. A parcel post and well it has been performed under demo cratic supervision every child knows, and it will greatly aid in the reduction of the higli cost of living in the country. C. Admission of Mexico and Arizona as states, which has been performed, addition of two more stars in the galaxy of our nation. Pf Enforcement's of the anti trust law, so that competition may be had and monoply forbid den. The work is going on every day and a full performance of our promise being kept. (The dissolution of the Bell Telephone from the Western Union is a most recent example.) We have only begun our work. Nine months have passed since we took charge of the government and it is no exaggeration to say that those nine months of demo cratic rule outshine with luster and splendor any four-year term of any republican president. The Mexican situation has re quired tact, patience and wis dom, and it will be settled by President Wilson without the loss of life and property to the admiration and amazement of the world. At the same time we have been constructing the Pana ma canal, and will celebrate its completion in 1915 under demo cratic rule and supervision. :o: It is announced that Lieuten ant Governor McKelvle will test in the courts the strength of the constitutional inhibition regard ing a stale officer running for one state ollice during the term for which he has been elected to an other. We hope the law will favor Sammy, and that he will receive the republican nomina tion. If the democrats can't beat him they should never make another attempt 'to elect a gov ernor. :o: Those who have been dis posed to howl calamity in recognition of the first year of democratic rule will hardly be heard calling attention to the 750,000,000 balance of trade in our favor, far beyond that of any former year. But it will not escape the- notice of those who want to correctly understand what- is going on outside of the tamps of the political medicine inixers. Lincoln Star. When any outsider comes along to get up a special boom edition he always finds some fel lows who will cheerfully aid him in carrying the money : out of town, instead of giving it to the town paper, which is a boom edition every day in the week. :o: Omaha will ask that one of the regional banks be located in that city. And why not? It is cen trally located more so, really, than Kansas City, either of the Twin Cities or Denver. We are for Nebraska's metropolis for all the good things to be had. :o: For the most part men of all parties are honest, and whatever the political differences, they should not be permitted to cause ill-feelings. The question as to whether a man is a democrat, a progressive democrat, a repub lican or a progressive republican is not so important as his being a good neighbor and a patriotic American citizen. :o: The New York board of education has recently conducted a careful inquiry into the ef ficiency of female teachers and finds that married women, especially mothers, make better teachers than single women, and that widows are the best of all. Get married, girl, get married, if you want to make a business of school teaching. :o: Isn't this a time for all really patriotic Americans to stand be hind the president, to trust to his undoubted wisdom and better in formation, to help 'him restore order to Mexico in the best and wisest way, and to prevent this nation from being stampeded into a mistaken and costly war by a selfish and conscinceless war party seeking some advant age? :o:- Regardless of the statistics set forth by the conservation con gress and the residents of Ni agara Falls, N. Y., we still con tend that a woman's tears. are the world's greatest water power. Next to a woman's blood, a man dreads the sight of woman's tears more than any other liquid exhibition, and therefore will go further to dry them up. Womfin wanting their rights have long known how they can get them quicker by crying than by voting, which may explaTn a lack of in terest in the latter direction. But conservation is a great institu tion, and women should want something worth while before crying for it. A man will get used to almost anything in time. ; :o: A rush to evade the new eugenics marriage law effective Monday, made the day the busiest on record for the Mil waukee county marriage license clerks. At the regular closing time eighty-four licenses had been issued and the ollice was so crowded with applicants that it was decided to issue licenses un til midnight. The new law re quires a thorough medical exam ination of both applicants for a license to wed. It also stipulates that but $3 shall be charged by physicians for making the exam ination. Many doctors have de clared that they will not make the necessary tesls for this fee. A fear that county officials will refuse to issue licenses unless the medical certificates states that comprehensive blood tests have been made, caused the rec ord demand for wedding permits in the closing days of the year. MURDER WILL OUT. In Monticello. N. Y.. a few days, ago a lawyer died suddenly in his office.' A physician, called to attend him, discovered a wom an by his side, who confessed that for fifteen years she had lived in a secret room in the lawyer's suite. The doctor dis closed the facts and the scanda has torn the town asunder. curious situation now has de veloped. The people have worked themselves into a fury which de mands a victim. And, amazing to relate, they have chosen the physician, kindly old man, for that part. He is the cause of the furore, they say; had he smug gled the woman out of the office before the world knew the secret there would have been no scandal and the memory of this "prom inent and influential citizen, who had lived a double life, would now be revered instead of joined to an ugly romance. Into what an abyss of error the human mind often tumbles, and not the least deplorable thing about it is that the common mind frequently is infected and a whole community falls into the same error: so came the burning of witches. These good village folk of Monticello do not realize that the truth cannot be sup pressed, and though they feel a commendable desire to speak no ill of the dead they should know it is the man's deeds which cry aloud his secret, not the final witness of them. And they should understand that it is a wholesome law of nature which permits the unexpected light'to penetrate the darkness that ever is the refuge of the vicious. :o: Gov. Morehead has been peti tioned by a number of farmers to break the veterinarians' trust which exists in the state by virtue of thejaw requiring a man treat ing the diseases of stock to hold a certihcalc. It is alleged mat many farmers are amply able and efficient in treating their own hogs for cholera, but they are not permitted to do so. Un questionably that was not the purpose of an otherwise good aw, but it was rather the design to keep out fake veterinarians and prevent them from charging farmers fat fees for flimsy service. :o: If the Wisconsin eugenics law becoming effective the first of the year and which is declared by the physicians of the state to be so stringent as to be almost im practicable, is enforced, there is a fairly strong likelihood that ten years hence Wisconsin will ead the union in the way of chil dren born out of what is gen erally regarded as wedlock. Al ready an opinion is being pub- ished broadcast in that state that it requires only an agree ment between a man and a wom an to live together to make a common law marriage! :o: While General Villa did not eat lis Christmas dinner in the City of Mexico, as was predicted, yet he seems to be in absolute con- rol of the northern half of that country. He seems to have a penchant in getting next to Huerta's generals and putting them out of business for all time. He certainly has displayed great ability as a commander for a Mexican, much more so than Huerta or any of his gang. :o: Some democrats say Billy Thompson has been run for office loo many times already to ever think of running for gov ernor. We know of some others who are in the same boat. :o: Country papers which have been criticized for spelling it Xmas should not become de spondent, when the New York American, which should have known better, never spells it any other way. The city of Dayton, Ohio, has appointed W. II. Waite, a civil engineer, of Cincinnati, as its business manager. The entire finances of the city are to be turned over to Mr. Waite, and he will immediately formulate his plans as to what must be done and how the business is to be conducted. He is an autocrat and the task of rebuilding the city will devolve uDon him. They are gradually coming to the con elusion that the present system of city government is wasteful, inefficient and unpractical, aud that the business of the city ought to be conducted by one head, just as private business is done. The plan is now in the ex perimental stage, but it promises to be an improvement upon the commission form of government One man attends to the entire affairs of the city. He appoints his subordinates, controls the police, the management of the streets, the construction of sew ers, sidewalks, paving and the like and is responsible for the success of the entire outlay. :o: dams' bank and the cause given is the bank could not make col lections and the withdrawals were very heavy. The bank, he says, will pay out. Captain Adams is one of the best known pioneers in the state, and has been prom inent in politics, having been at times a prospective candidate for congress and for governor. Last fall he was a candidate for com mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic of the na tion. :p: It is reported from Washing ton that some of the most in fluential congressmen on the several committees are inclined to put the soft, soft pedal on the trust regulation program. Ob viously there isn't any use in playing too loud. Nor should radicalism be permitted to run riot in the matter. But mere 11 1 be-good promises may soon be forgotten and there will be the same necessity for action there is now. Incidental!-, too. some of he most enthusiastic advocates of the soft pedal policy now were some of the loudest critics and ranters at the colonel when ex President Rosevelt declared there were good trusts and bad trusts. Trust the trust not; it may fool- ng thee I :o: We do not like to be eternally condemning any enterprise of the city, but if something isn't done soon to make a better lighting system in this town, there will be a general and everlasting wail go up that will resound from one end of the city to the other, and hen something will be done by the people. Warnings should be wisely heeded. :o: 'I do not want men to die be fore guns for their country" 1 want them to live for their country." Thus spoke Secretary Jryan, the foremost citizen of Nebraska, to the Young Men's Christian association in Lincoln the other night in referring to he possibility of a war with Mexico. And he spoke the senti ments of 95 per cent of the peo ple of these United States. :o : If a man is active in public af airs he is branded as an am bitious '. politician. If he isn't active, he is said to lack in- erest in the welfare of the com munity in which he lives. A man simply can't be satisfactory, and gets along best by keeping closed, devoting eight or ten hours a day to business, being polite, honest and the like, and telling a few people now and then to go to h hades. :o: The year 1914 will be what we make it, so the man or woman who has resolved to be happy in a healthful, useful way, is taking the first step, as far as our in dividual lives are concerned, on the road to happiness. OUR BODIES ARE GOD'S TEMPLES Only the Regenerated Are the Sons of God. BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT The Unregenorate Their Privilege. "If the Spirit of God Dwell In You." Greater Privileges Greater Respon sibilitiesGreater Honors and Glories. Saved to Human Perfection Saved to Spirit Perfection Earthly Glory. Heavenly Glory. New York City, 5 f-mn ' 3 XL Jan. 11. Tastor Russell preached twice here today in the handsome Auditorium of the new City Temple to a highly appre ciative audience from the follow ing text: "If any man defile the temple of God. him shall God de stroy; for the tem IIKASIOK. KU55LLLJ ple of God Is holy, which temple ye are." 1 Corinthians 3:17. The Tastor declared that this Scrip ture could not be applied indiscrim inately, with the same force, to all men. Only the Church are temples of God in the sense the Apostle here mentions; for only such as have been regenerated, begotten again by the Holy Spirit, are the sons of God. These have received a new life, and are Scrlpturally described as "New Creatures in Christ Jesus." To these. "Old things have passed away, and all things have become new." These have entered Into a covenant with God through the merit of Jesus, who serves them as Advocate, imputing Ills righteousness to them, justifying them freely from their unintentional Imperfections and weaknesses. De- cause they are thus justified by faith, God has accepted their sacrifice of earthly hopes and interests, and ha made them New Creatures by beget ting them with the Holy Spirit. This, however, is only the beginning of their new experience. If faithful, they will still loyally comply with their Covenant of Sacrifice, and count no experience too hard In their endeav or to so live as to glorify God in their bodies and spirits, which are His. They will count it all joy when they pass through fiery trials, esteeming all things but loss and dross in compari son with the rewards which God has promised them. They follow their Re deemer through evil report, as well ns through good report, seeking to walk in nis steps- These, as New Crea tures, are said to dwell In. or inhabit, the earthly body, using it merely as a servant in the doing of the will of God. The distinction between these New Creatures, spirit-begotten, and the re mainder of mankind (however Just and well-intentioned) is very decided. We do not speak of humanity, ordinarily. as apart from their bodies; for cut off from the body, they would be dead. We speak of such separation as disso lution. As the union of life (vitality) with organism (body) forms the soul, or sentient being, so the separating of these two components causes the soul to cease. Thus death would be the end of humanity, had not God provided for the redemption of our race, and Its res titution by resurrection. Its restitu tion will be merely a bringing back of that which death Is now destroying: viz., human or earthly being. Whoever realizes the majesty of God's work In human creation should also realize that anything done, either deliberately or carelessly, to injure God's workmanship would be sin. whether the injury be toward his own body himself or toward another. There is a Divine Law to the effect that whosoever sins must suffer. Whoso ever would defile his body, either by Impure thoughts, angry thoughts, ma licious thoughts, or by misusing it con trary to Divine arrangement, or vy drinking, or by gluttony, is aenung himself, the temple of his soul, or be ingthe work of God. Lvery vue thought or act every pandering to selfish appetite, is sure to bring auto matically depravity of body or mina or both; and depravity is the process f death at work. And unless such de pravity, or death, be overcome througn Christ, the end thereof will be ever lasting death. "The soul that smnein. It shall die."-Ezekiel 18:4, 20. The same principle applies to all wno would do evil to others, either by poi soning their minds or their morals, or by Injuring their phjsical systems. Such a one would be doing violence io the work of God. He would be de grading his own manhood. The opera tion of Divine Law would surely bring him punishments, and these unheeded would ultimately bring death "ever lasting destruction." We may warn every man along tue broad, general line of the Bible. "What soever a man soweth, that 6hall he also reap." He that sows to the flesh to sin. to selfishness, to meanness, to the fallen propensities, to anger, malice. ,envy, hatred, strife, evil speaking, etc s -will be sure to reap correspondingly .bitter experiences; and this way per sisted in would finally bring him to the Second Death. God has no gift of eternal life or other eternal favors for those who love sin. His mercies are .provided for those who have learned the lesson and hare turned from sin and become loyal and obedient to their Creator. God's Temple the Church. St. Paul tells exactly what he refers to by this term, "temple of God," say ing. "Know ye not that ye are the tem ple of God. and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" In the-Wilderness, when God entered into covenant rela tionship with the Israelites, becoming their God and accepting them as His people under Je Law Covenant. He manifested Himself in the IJt Holy of their Tabernacle. The D1fne pres ence was indicated by a great Hrbt called the Sheklnah Glory, which shone out from between the Cherubim cover ing the Mercy Seat. When the Israelites would draw near to God, they did so through Hi ap pointed servants. Aaron and his sons. These had access to God's presence. The Tabernacle was therefore the tem ple of God, because God was repre sented by His Spirit or Power, or Presence, there. But It was called the Tabernacle because it was merely a tent in contrast with the permanent building erected later by King Solo mon. After its dedication. God appear ed in that Temple Instead of in the Tabernacle, and Ills presence was manifested in the same manner. The Church Is the antltyplcal Tem ple of God; but as St Peter point out. It as a Temple is not yet con structed. (1 Teter 2: 4 0.) Each con secrated child of God. begotten of the Holy Spirit is a living stone In prep aration for a place In tbe glorious Tem ple of God. soon to be constructed Theso living stones are God's work manship. He works In them by the Spirit of Truth; and by His providence He shapes them, polishes them, devel ops their characters, and makes them ready for the coming building. Nev ertheless, this Master-workman always recognizes the free will of His people. He works In them only as much as they are willing to let Him work, only in harmony with their prayers to be filled with His Spirit Some Indeed draw back entirely. They are at liberty to draw back unto perdition; or, as many do. they are st liberty to draw back from the full preparation for the Kingdom and the Temple, to hold back from the chisel ing and pollshlngs. so as to be unfit for a piace in the Temple. As long as they do not draw back In heart, bow ever, but remain loyal g the Lord, they will pet a blessing, even thongb they will miss the cLlef blessing. This the Apostle shows in the preceding context saying. "If any man's work ablJc, be shall receive a re ward. If any man's work shall be burned, be shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, so as by fire" because he has built upon the Rock. The Temple Not Yet Built According to St Peter's picture, the living stones for the Temple are mere ly chiseled and polished during their earthly life; and not until the resur rection will these living stones come together as the Temple of God, to be tuUy indwelt by His Holy Spirit Ileuco St Paul was speaking merely of our urthly bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit In other words, he was calling our fleshly tabernacles temples. So In another place he de clared, "We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not that we would be unclothed without a taber nacle, or body, but that we would be clothed upon" with our Heavenly house, our spiritual bodies, which God has promised in the resurrection. St Paul's thought appears to be that wherever God may dwell Is necessarily holy His temple or His tabernacle; and that any wilful or intentional de Hterateness in sin, depraTing that tem ple or tabernacle, would be an offense not only against It but against God. Oh. if Christian people who have re ceived the begetting of the Holy Spirit could but comprehend this lesson, we may be sure that it would have a pow erful influence upon their lives! Solomon's Typical Temple. Under Divine direction tbe stomas and timbers for Solomon's temple were prepared before the work of construct- in:! the temple began. We read that the whole building went together per fectly, without the sound of a hammer; I. e., there was no need to pound or chisel any part Every stone was per fectly fitted for its place. This Is very much the style of our modern construc tion. The huge stones in our great buildings are not chiseled on the spot nor during tbe process of construction, but in the quarry, and then are crated and brought to tbe building site all teady to be placed. God. the great Architect of the spir itual Temple, planned and directed that earthly temple's construction so as to make of it an Illustration of tne real Ttmple of God, the Church in glory. In our earthly experiences we receive the cbLsellngs and polishing necessary to our various places in tbe glorious Temple atiout to be built Whoever resists these chiseling, or by unfitness escapes them, will thereby Just so sure ly escape being a memter of the Church in glory. We cannot afford that loss.. We must therefore gladly submit ourselves to the Divine provi dences wblch shape our lives, our des tinies, and prepare us for the glorious things which God has in reservation for those that love Him. The resurrection of the Church is In the Bible called tbe First Resurrection, or Chief Resurrection: for all those who will participate in it will experi ence an instantaneous change from earthly conditions "changed in a mo ment in tne twinkling of an ere." Each one thus changed Is thereby fit ted, or built, into his place In tbe Temple of Glory. This resurrection work is due to begin at tbe Second Coming of Christ when the dead la Christ shall rhe first (1 ThessaJod- ans 4: W) Thus considerable nam ber of nrtos; sttne will UM rs Uneously to their places In glory. Then will fallow tbe change of tae remaining- members of the Church. As the Apostle explains, we which are alive and remain sh21 cbanged Each will be changed la aa Instant not slowly: but all will act be changed In the same instant or monaeet The processes will gradually ccttlnne dur ing the time called la the Bible t Harrest; and by the conclusion of the Harvest the last of these Ilrtsg; stones will bare passed beyond ti Telt "changed." Then tb Temple- will b finished. The next step la the VA program will be that which was typi fied by the flory of the Lord coming Into Solomon's temple od t'.ltvg It after It had been completed. -Presented With Eeeeding Joy. In considering what may be the an titype of the filling of that temp4e with God's glory, we may not pJt with too great pos:tIvens. We may merely give our conjecture. We know that the resurrection chance wCI rlv to each member of the Church class a personal glory; ss It Is written. -Sows In weakness raised in power; sown la dishonor, raised In g!ory; sown an ani mal body, raised a spiritual body." But the rfory fining Solomon's temp' cannot seemingly refer to this personal glory. Rather. It moit signify the honor which God win giTe to the Church and ef which the Savior fpok. saving that whosoever would confess Him before men. lie wooUi Niuf" before the Father stvl before the holy angels. This wonkl be the tr.lng of the Church with the DlTine glory Other Scriptures tell us that ti re deemer will present os tl-tmeU-'s atl irreprovatle before the Father with exceeding Joy. This will be glory for ns Having received the Baviora -Well done": to receive Anally tbe Fa ther's approval and by Him to be hon ored before the holy ange!s wi:i be to fill the Church, tbe Trople of GoL with Divine Glory. Bat perhaps sti:l more than th!s Is meant Perhaps It means that when the Father shall re ceive the Church He win gWlfy her by communicating of Ills power, au thority, to her. inventing her. tn asso ciation with the Lord Jesns. the Heav enly BrideCToom. with t.e Divine au thority and power to tike hold of the world's affairs for its rescue from sin and death. In connection with the blnd!r.g of Satin for a thousand years and tbe bU-sMr.sr of aft the famlilee of the earth with the knowledge of the glory of God. The Atonement Day In Type. In everything God caused typical Israel to perform typical ceremonies. Illustrative of various features of the Divine Plan. The Atoneiaent Day sac rifices represented the '"letter sacri fices" of Jesus, our great High Priest He first offered op Himself, st Jordan, finishing Ills work st CalTary. Resin ning at Pentecost He has been offer ing up all those whom He accepts se members of His Body. The death of tbe last memtcr f the Bdy of Christ which Is the Church, win mean the completion of the great IlUh lTleV better sacrifices. It will tr.eaa the passing of all the members of ni Body Into death, according to the Ces!x but Into membership In the Body ef the Tllgh i-rlest on the spirit plane, as spirit beings. It win mean that the High Priest complete win then be be yond the second vett As the first work of the typical priest beyond the Tell on the Atonement Day was tbe sprinkling of the blood upon the Mercy Seat on behalf of H th people, so the antitype of tMs will mean the presentation to God of the merit of the better sacrifices of Christ on behalf of all the world cf mankind. The type shows us that this merit w!3 be acceptable. As then the hlh priest went forth from the Mot Holy to tbe presence of the people, and lifted v? bis hands and blessed thern. wo this signifies that Christ snd the Churca will, after receiving the Father's bless ing for mankind, go forth to bestor their blessings upon the whole world. during the thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom to take away the cnre sn4 to give. Instead, the Divine blessing of Restitution of all things lost througn Adam and redeemed by Jesus. The Glory-Filled Tempt. All through the thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom God win be In H'.a glorified Church, which win be there fore the glorious Temple of the Lor-L from which win proceed to mankln4 jn the blessings of Instruction neces sary for their full recovery to Divine faror. There will be no rcore atone ment days, no more sin-offerings; for as St Paul points out the better sacri fices completely cancel sin. But there will be sacrifices; as It is written. "Then shall they offer whole burst of ferings upon Mine altar." During Messiah's Kingdom the offer ings of the people, which will be pre sented through tot Cnorcb. the Tem ple, will be the offering, or devotion, of them;elves their time, their talent their Influence, to be used la Jtyfnl service. Sacb cousecrstloa God is al ways plcssed to recelTe. They w!3 not be sin-offerings; for all the sin-of ferings are accomplished la advsnce by tbe antltyplcal High Priest Il: better sacrifices cover every fra rnre of tin that Is forgivable at alL All wil ful slr.3 recelTe punishment In propor tion to wilfulness in proportion to knowledge and opportunity. now glad w are to know of onr privilege In connection with the glorf- lous Temple which God Is errLstrue. lng! Oh, may we an as Using stones submit ourselves, our wills, to God. to ne csiioed la full conformity to nie wiai now grad we are that sube queotly all mankind win have the priv ilege of approaching God through ns thruu a this spiritual Temple, which Is -ice canst Jesus the DmA Cfcurca the Body!