Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 11, 1912, Page 2

T - TR T ST Ay PAGE 2, PP DIIPIBBERRDPEE SPPPPEEHIPE International Sunday School Lesson : H i | the wilful evil-doers shall have been cut off in the Second Death) will the race—prove perfect and fully in ac- cord with the divine standard—be put under the Law of Liberty—Love, and its Golden Rule. So lomg as they are minors they will be treated much as servants. (Heb, 13: 17.) The New (Creation, now under the Law of Liberty, is so dealt with be- cause to them *‘old things have pass- ed away, all things have become new'';—they pow hate sin and love righteousness and use their liberty, not as an opportunity to gratify the flesh, but to mortify it—not to revel in sin, but to sacrifice earthly inter- ests in cooperation with the Lord in putting away sin and ridding the world of it and its wages of death. Those begotten again to this new spirit or disposition—the Spirit of God-—and who have become pupils in the school of Christ to learn of Him and walk in His steps,—thesc, and these alone, can be safely put under -38; Rom. 13:8-10, The Law of Love. Luke ¢6: Subject— Text—"Thou shalt love thy peigh- bor as thyself.”"—Rom. 13:9. It seems impossible to describe love itself; the best we can do is to describe its conduct. Those who possess a love with such character- istics are able to appreciate it, but not able otherwise to explain jt— it is of God, Godlikeness in heart, in the tongue, in the hands, in the thoughts—supervising all the human attributes and seeking fully to con- trol them. As disciples or pupils of Christ, ard the great lesson which he is teaching us day by day, and the les- son which we must learn thoroughly ff we would attain the mark of the prize of our high calling in all its various features and ramifications, It takes hold words js the lesson of love, upon and relates to all the and thoughts and doing of our daily lives. As the poet has said, “As{o o poo of Liberty. And if they every lovely huc is Hght,—=s0 €VEI¥ | . vpo cnivit of their adoption, they grace love.” 1 Cor. 13: 5; Prov. 23: 7. cease to be sons, cease to be under But I say unto you which hear, Love your encmiex, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that liberty wherewith Christ makes frec, curse you, and pray for them which|__4hose who by comsccration come despitefully use you. Here is a Way |ypder this perfect Law of Love, and to examine the real disposition of [\who ynder it, lay down their lives your own heart toward such. Would | for the brethren and for the truth's this Law of Liberty. Those who can learn to use the THE KVENING [fELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., MAY 11, 1912 you cheerfully do them kindness and {sake, and for righteousness sake— help them to the extent of your abil-[these faithful ones will be counted ity to see the error of their way and|worthy to be the Lord's agents and overcome it? Can you tenderly pray |joint-heirs with His Beloved Son in for them and patiently bear Wwith|the great work of blessing the world. their weakness, their ignorance &nd|And how necessary this qualification lack of developement, and try by @|for their work,—how neccesary it noble example to show them a more|evidently is that those who would be excellent way? If such be the case, |the teachers and helpers and judges then it is the sin that you despise, [and rulers of the world,—thus bless- and not the sinner. The sin you |ing all the families of the earth dur- | should hate, but the sinner, never.|[jng the Mlilennial age,—should de- Not until God’s unerring judgement|velop to the full and be tested in this declares that the sin and the sinner|qualification of Love, in order to be are inseparable linked together may|merciful and faithful Royal Priests. love let go its hold upon a brother man. It was while we were enemies, aliens, strangers from God through wicked works, that “God so loved the world"; it was while We were yet sinners that He gave His Only Begot- ten Son on our behalt, That is the standard of perfect love, Not that he is to love his enemies as he loves the brethren, for this is not the pattern sct us—God does not love tlis enemies as He loves His sons, His friends; and Jesus did not love His enemies as He loved His disciples. But God loved His enemies so as to be ready and willing to do for them whatever could be justly done; and Jesus loved His enemies so that He was heartily willing to do good to them—He bears no enmity or grudge toward them in return for their ha- tred, but is ready to pour out upon them in due time His Millennial blessing, that they may all come to the knowledge of the truth, and that cven those who pierced Him may look uwpon Him and weep when God shall pour upon the the spirit of prayer and supplication, in due time. (Zech. 12: 100) We must have the love for eremics which our Lord desceribes, saying, “Love your enemies, hless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray tor them which despitefully use vou and per- secute you.” (Matt 1) We must let no bitterness, animosity or rancor of any kind dwell in our hearts. They must be so full of Love that pot even an cnemy could stir up in our hearts an sentiment, evil or - malicious “A law of liberty,” the Apostle calls it (Jas. 11 235) but God makes this law of liberty applicable only to the New Creation, begotten of His Spirit. 1t could be applicable to no others. Others are still under either the Mosaic Law, as servants not fit for “the liberty wherewith Christ makes free” the sons, or clse they are under the condemmation of the original law-—the condemnation of death, and as condemned sinners, still treated as strangers, aliens and foreigners, who are without God and who have no hope in the world:- they do not even know of the grace of God which bringeth salvation eventually to the world in general, but which at present has been mani- “Boy Scouts” Shoes This “Exceisior Boy Scouts” Camp Shoe, made of mineral-tanned gepuine Elk leather, will outwear two pairs of ordinary shoes, It is almost impossible to wear it out. 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He blinds the minds and £tops the ears of the majority of mankind with doc- trines of devils, ete—(2 Cor. §: LN 1 Tim. 4: 1) Liberty is not for the evilly dis- CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. W. Fiske Johnson REAL ESTATE posed, as society witnesses when it imprisons them; and so the perfect Law of Liberty is not appropriate to the well The world the evilly disposed, but to digposed—10 the perfect. Loars Negotiated Wwill not be left to a Law of Love dur- ing the Millennium, but wiil be ruled Buys and Sells Real Estate. Orang with Justice and Mercy under a law |° Grove Property & Specialty. of obedience to the Kingdom. Not until the close of the Kingdom (when ROOX 7. um m ! PERSONAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL PLATEORM OF WILLIAM M. TOOMER Candidate for Congressman-at-Large State of Florida PERSONAL HISTORY. POLITICAL PRINCIPLES, He was born in Charleston, S. C., September 14, 1866. His par- ents died when he was an infant, and he was adopted by his aunt, the wife of a farmer, and spent his boyhood in farm work and at. tending a country school. With a scholarship gotten for him by a cousin, Rev. A. Toomer Porter, he was educated first at the Porter Military Academy and then at college. After graduation at college, he spent one year at work as a teacher and then upon a civil service examination was appointed a clerk in the custom service of the government, where he worked for eighteen months. He then moved to Waycross, Ga., where his only sister lived, and went to work as seal clerk in the railroad yards, then as billing clerk in a warehouse of that company. After about seven months in this service, he was appointed official court reporter of the Bruns- wick Judicial Circuit, which position he held for five years, during hwhich time he was frequently called to Florida to neport important cases. The second year after his appointment as court reporter, he married at Brunswick, Ga.. and four months thereafter was admitted to the bar. A few years later he was appointed solicitor general, or prosecuting attorney for the nine counties composing the Bruns. wick Judicial Circuit, and the duties of this office he discharged with distinction, In 1890 he was elected to the Georgia legislature, and served two years in that capacity as a member of the committee on ju* diciary, ways and means and a number of other important commit- tees, including the steering committee of seven, which regulated the order of business for the legislature. He made a vigorous fight for the reform of the assessment or tax gathering laws of Georgia; was conspicuous in his opposition to freak legislation of all kinds; and was the author of a number of bills of general effect which are on the statute books of that State, and have never been amended or repealed. In 1896 he formed a law partnership with Mr. J. C. Reynolds, and the firm of Toomer & Reynolds has continued until the Present. He moved his home and business to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1903, and immediately became identified with her business interests: with the development of Florida: and the practice of law, with a limited general clientage, which did not include the representation of any of the so-called special interests, but did include the representation of farmers, merchants, manufacturers and some of the modest busi. nes interests of this city and State, His family. of which he is very proud, consists of a wife and eight children, three girls and five boys. He is owner of a good farm in Duval county. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and has done a great deal of active work in the building of churches and Young Men's Christian Associations. He is & member of the Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He has twice been selected by the United States government to act as assistant attorney general in the trial of important cases; first, in the preparation and trial of the case against the naval stores trust and again in the trial of a case institated by the government against the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company (a steamship company) and two railroads, and a firm of grain shippers in Philadelphia. The government won these cases. He has acquired a comfortable home and a modest amount of means, and is in every sense an AVERAGE man with some legal and business training: no alignments with large corporations, and thor- oughly in touch and in sympathy with the great middle classes and masses of the people. . While his name was mentioned by some of the press of the State in comnmection with the governorship of this State four years ago, yet until he sought membership in the United States Congress, he has never asked nor held public office in Florida. He is in no sense an officesecker, but has the equipment, health, energy and experi- ence to make a capable representative of this State in the Uns ondiy : Presentative e United He favors the immediate co-operation by the United States gov- ernment with the States in establishing and maintaining a system of national highways, which shall bear mail, parcel posts and in- terstate commerce from the ports into and between the States and interior counties. He is the author of the first published statement in Florida arguing in favor of the constitutional right of the gen- eral government to aid in this work, He favors the platform and policy of the Democratic party in immediately revising the tarif DOWNWARD, and especially does he endorse the “farmers’ free list” and the schedules now being advocated by the Democratic majority in the national Congress, in- cluding the removal of the duty from sugar, and from those man- ufactured articles which can be made here, shipped to foreign coun- tries, stand the foreign freights, and be sold abroad for less than the domestic price. The Democratic party is committed to & reason- able tariff levied for the purposes of raising the government'’s rev- enues, but there are certainly incidental benefits which flow to our people even from a tariff for revenue only; and he favors a fair distribution of these reciprocal benefits so that manufacturing may be done as profitably in Florida as in Massachusetts. He favors a capable and vigorous enforcement of the anti-trust laws, and demonstrated his position upon this question in the rep- resentation of the government in the successful prosecution of what was perhaps the leading case under the Sherman anti-trust act. Since the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco government cases, defining the restraint prohibited by the act as “undue” or “‘unreasonable” re- straint, the public and the press of the country unite in the state- ment that the Sherman anti-trust law needs amendment or further legislative definition. While this is true, he has been the only one in the public prints to point out the specific amendments required. which are these: First, the striking out of the present punish- ment prescribed by the act, which is merely as for a misdemeanor, and substitute therefore punishment by imprisonment up to ten years in the penitentiary; second, an amendment to the several pro- visions to the act which shall, in terms, provide that the ‘‘undue” nnd."unreu.onable" restraints prohibited by that act are those re- straints which accomplish the destruction of competition and the mgbhsh.ment of monopolies by means which violate other laws or yvlueh violate settled principles of business morals, and which are in th];.mfelv“ flagrantly dishonest. AVOrs & progressive and aggressive policy and but is :il:,l:lre,d tod l'll-com;;iererd.beexpelrlimenul legisi’:fig whicprit.”nvom. and incapable of being harmoni; i i of national and State gow:fment, i itk ur estalinhed form He believes that it is the public duty of every citi i citize u ter and vote and to take not only an interest in trl{e ulee:iot: ::g‘:;. ficers who shall decide what the law is and of officers who shall ex- ecute the laws; but special int i ection of otlme v who participate in thelz,:cnking gy oy “' that great caution should be exercised in law i i in tb;extmile «; the government's right tl:n. ukxm' PR e favors the administration of those natio i the _hational quarantine act by a deplnmentlo::lthh:]gmefl;: having at its head a cabinet officer with final authority and jurisdic- I:'::t.co ordinate with other departments of the national govern- He favors the ina; millions of p.;n.i;luh of Florida, nistration of our nat; i IANS WHOSE ummAl;;' 1‘%& WITH OUR LOCAL CONDITIONS, AVOTS the absolute disqualification from participating in : pm::t:::i? candidates who base their claim to thmei: prov. Arod ongress upon abuse and defamation of neisoypouedtodmlmer;inorontownm He Preseats Mis Candidacy to All the People of Fiorida Ubon His Private and Bus and the Views Whichi e Entertains and Nas Expresseq inessLife, Interest to the Peaple. pressed Upon: Questions of Real Public