Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — No Laws, No Courts, No Asylums, if Every One Acquired Self Mastery [ARTICLE]

No Laws, No Courts, No Asylums, if Every One Acquired Self Mastery

By Dr. AMOS W. PATTEN.

of Northwestern University

CHE credential of any person is SELF MASTERY, whether one be a man or a woman. There is but ONE STANDARD of purity for men and women, and yet there are those who question it. THE MAN WHO TAKES HIMSELF IN HAND NEEDS NO LAWS, NO COURTS, NO ASYLUMS. The purpose of the church is not simply one of singing psalms and holding prayer meetings, but rather one of feeling the WORLD’S NEEDS. •I■ , I Philanthropy should not be thrown out in SPOONFULS, but should be made as one would an INVESTMENT, capable of producing LARGE RESULTS. Worldliness is not love of the natural world nor love of the literary or scientific world. It is the lower life, debased commercialism, false.vanity and GREED FOR DOLLARS.