Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1913 — POWER ABOVE ALL [ARTICLE]

POWER ABOVE ALL

Gospel of Jesus Christ Supreme Now as) It Was in the Beginning. SHAME goes through the world with bowed head and a furtive step, and shrinks from notice. Shame is the acknowledgment of some inferiority or defect, mental, moral or physical. Pride is an upward looking quality, and though it has been listed as one of the seven deadly sins, yet it is proper that a true man have pride in that which is praiseworthy. In St. Paul’s day the Hebrews were a proud nation. They were proud of their religion, of their wonderful history, of their, great men such as Abraham and Moses, of their city of Jerusalem and its magnificent temple. Their pride would not allow them to have any dealings with their own cousins, the Samaritans, because they had intermarried with the Canaanites. The Greeks were a proud people in those days. They were proud of their learning, of their mellifluous language, and of their classic literature which we study after all these centuries. They were proud of their works of art which have never been surpassed, if equaled, and they were proud of their general culture and polish, and they looked upon other nations as barbarians.