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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
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__Bv WILLIAM* T. ELLIS
From the midst of the mess and
Unenaoe called "Tjie Near Eastern
Question.” and weary or writing upon
the political phaseB of It all, X turn
with relief for a steadying look at a
Man—one of the huge, heroic figures of
history,' who greatly fulfilled hia des
■ 4 tiny in an hour as oritical aa the pres
ent. Because he was a man for his own
V- time, John the . Baptist has beoome a
man for the ages.
No phase of contemporary affairs >s
more appalling than the dearth of ade
quate men. Since the first of the year
I have been In Europe and the Near
East, dealing with the pien who are re
sponsible for official action in this
Imuddled period of hufnan affairs; and
• only one man of the whole company
haa oven slightly Impressed me as be
ing of a stature commensurate with the
task. He Is Prime Minister Stambo
• lister, of Bulgaria, "the peasant pre
mlsr,'*l'*who is sneered at by the fault
Heasly^formal hut futile diplomats as
'“unoouth” and as primitive. Hordes
of professional office-holders Know the
etiquette of statecraft; and are skilled
in the machinery and the arts of ®°Y"
eminent; hut of personalities, big in
brain and character and vision, there
seem to be almost none. Are we In the
era of the apothesis of the common
place? Bhrewd and sophisticated and
*— conscienceless politicians we have In
plenty, hut where are the men or
straight sight, dear convictions, sure
courage, and passionate devotion to the
right and to the welfare of the world?
'Truly, this Is a time to study the John
the Baptist type.
An Imprudent Hero
Of guile and prudence the world has
an over-supply today. Perhaps It Is
' beoause I am writing In Bible lands,
where the “safety first” principle has
• been carried to most craven lengths,
that I • express myself fellingly upon
the need for an outspoken, oonvlcltion
iand courage that la even reokless. Pru
dence Is a minor vfrtue of second-rate
souls; all the truly great have some
thing-of the flavor of John the Baptist,
who defiantly flung his challenge and
his message and his life straight Into
the teeth of a soft, self-indulgent and
jpleasure-seeklng time. He had looked
Iso long upon the face of truth that he
fhad no fear of the face of man. He
(was more concerned about being true
(than about being polite. There was
(too' much ceremonial politeness In his
/■world, and too little rugged honesty,
j It is easier to admire a hero than
(to emulate him. The price of freedom
and oonrage is willingness to live In
the desert and to wear camel's hair and
>a leather girdle and to feed upon lo
custs and wild honey. If a young man
'or young woman “must have” colthes
In the prevailing mode, the luxuries of
an expensive home, and the table daln
(ties of the age, then he or she auto
enatlcally ls cut off for any sort of John
Ithe Baptist career. Such a one may
(be good, but necessarily Ineffective.
'•S'The task of being truth’s herald, and
■ jOod's sent messenger, Is for some stur
dier soul. Ability to forego and to en
dure is the first requisite of great llv
v Ing. The keen wife of a clergyman
once said, “Mrs. Blank used to come to
lour missionary meetings' in the latest
: (mode, and urgp us to sacrifice for mis
sions; but somehow our women were
v never moved by her.” No truth evur
(grips until it becomes Incarnated in a
In an or woman,
The Inscription (At Angora
Recently, at Angora} the remote ln
: terlor capital of the new Turkish na
. tlon, I saw the Augustlnlan Inscription
an elaborate surviving record upon
(marble walls of the honor and acts of
jfche Roman emperor who reigned When
ijeeus was Jborfl. Other inscriptions in
abundance may be seen In Angora, as,
[indeed, throughout Anatolia Most of
(them mean nothing to the average per
von: the men glorified have been for
gotten for hundreds and thousands of
Mt I years. In this same category are the
4 I,Roman officials enumerated by Luke,
L i as he dates the beginning of John the
Muap 'St's ministry, in our lesson chap
*W£er: “Now In the fifteenth year of the
reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pi
■late being Governor of Judaea, Herod
Tetrach of Ituraea and Trachonljls, and
Lyeanias Tetrach of Abilene, during
the High-priesthood of Annas and Cai
V spas, a message from God came to John
the son ofze^hariah, in the desert."
How big these officials ail were In
their day—and now they are only re
membered because of their relationship
to a rude wlldemees preacher, and to
; a carpenter’s Sonl It is a study In rel
& atlve values and eternal worth. The
SL Important clause In this official
w -enumeration by Luke, and the one jus
tifying the rest is “a message from
God came to John.” That is the great
thing. We date our calendars by
events of this’’sort. When G6d speaks
to a' receptive soul, then things hap
pen. Emperors and satelites beoome
’ puny alongside of the man \yho has
beard God speaking to him.
That was John’s equipment. It was
j his adequate substitute for a theologl
Cai course. It qualified him to stand
A before kings without blanching. To
5 speak, one must first hear; the reason
V) deaf persons are mutes is simply bs
• |,jauso they have ner heard; whioh Is a
fact with a profound spiritual analogy.
We may hold conferences and write
books and Issue statements until we
are weary, concerning the spiritual si
tuation of our era, but nothing will
ever really come of it until individual
men and women have clearly heard the
voioe of G<^d in their own spirits. This
is the distinctive teaching of the Quak
ers; would that they might practice
and proclaim It to all the churches. No
other fitness or urge is of any real
avail until it can be written, “a mes
sage from God came to John”—and to
Henry and to Robert and to Thomas
and to Mary and to Jane and to Mar
garet.
Religion and the City Drift
One of the loveliest spots in Palestine,
is the village where John the Baptist
is supposed to have been born. It is
only a short distance from Jerusalem;
and John's father was engaged in the
temple; but the young man did not go
to the big city. He went into the wil
derness. One wonders whether pur
modern slump from spirituality and
morality has any relation to the reffSnt
overwhelming drift of life.away from
the country into the cities. City life
irons out individuality; it makes con
formists of even strong personalities.
Our civilization is conventionalized to
death. What makes “society” stale,
flat and unprofitable is that it has lost
the tang of originality and freshness.
S pall of deadly sameness lies over it.
Dame Grundy is the tyrant of the city,
and she rudes it to the tune of “Every
body’s Doing It!" “hey Say!" and
“What Will People Think!” and “It's
the way It’s being done now!" are the
laws of the bandar-log in the jungles
of the big cities. There is a sad sig
nificance t in the recent sale ot tens
of thousands of books of etiquette.
Myriads of us are more afraid of being
unfashionable than of being unright
eous. That is the brand of the city up
on us. _
Out in the country it is easier and
more natural j to be religious. God
seems a near neighbor in the wide
spaces out of doors. In town a lta^
may easily be an atheist, but not in the
big woods. Prophets grow in the des
ert, from the days of Elijah and John
and Jesus and Paul down to Moham
med. Let us fice away from the city
for our sense of true and permanent
values. When God wanted to show the
heavens opened to the beloved apostle
he took him away from the clamorous
city of Ephesus, to the lonely, rocky
isle of Patmos. A short time ago I
traveled over the regiop of Paul’s Jour
neys in Asia Minor, and of the Seven
Churches of Asia (which is largely the
territory covered by last year’s Greek
retreat) and I saw so muoh that was
heartsearing that I went to Patmos for
a corrective vision of things; and I con
fess that I longed to stay for a time la
the quiet of the monastery.
When John the Baptist had got his
message in the wilderness the crowds
flocked out to him from the cities. It
is not a bigger and better pulpit that
most preachers need, but a clearer mes-'i
sage. Often I saw in Dr. Jowett’s
church in New York city men from dis
tant cities who had traveled far, as I
myself had done, to hear a word
straight from, the book and mind of
God.
The Mam Who Was Inadequate
A striking truth about this hairy,
rugged, romantic figure from the des
ert, John the Baptist, is that he him
self was not adequate for his time, and
he knew It. As this lesson Is taught
all over the world tens of thousands of
teachers will stress the thought tha^
our day’s need is for a John the Bap
tist. To say this Js tq miss the point
of the narrative. We need herald
prophets, it is true; but only as her
alds. John’s greatness-consisted in his
seeing clearly the world’s need of a
Greater than himself. He had not the
remedy for the sickness of his world;
but he pointed to One who had. He
was but a signboard on the way to the
"Lamb of God, who. taketh away the
sins of the world.”
This prostrate humanity of today,
whose illness seems to baffle all the
political and social physicians of civili
zation, can only be cured by the Heal
er foretold by John. , It needs repent
ance and contrltioit—the two notes
that seem lacking from all the clamor
of walling that rises from Europe and
Asia—but it needs moat of. all the sal
vation which is the gift of Christ
alone. It is not reconstruction that
our time awaits so much as redempt
tion. So the call is for prophets, after1
the fashion of John the Baptist, who
will point to the new social era (as he
did point) by way of the Saviour. An
altered society derives from trans
formed souls. And that healing comes
to those whom some forerunner has
introduoel to Jesus Christ.
SBTBIf SENTENCE SERMONS
Reason is our Soul’s left hand. Faith
is her right.—John Donne.
The secret of success lies in the man
and not In the stuff he works on.—
Bradford Torrey.
' The man who is able to look “down
and see the part of him capable of dls
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CALVE AS GUIDE TO AMERICAN" GIRLS |
"s.
Mme. Emma Calve, noted soprano (right), conducts American pupils
studying at her chateau through the summer on a dally promen^jie through
Paris. 1 . H
appointment lying beneath him, Is far
more blessed than he who rejoices in
the fulfillment of his desires.—George
Masdonald. *
Deeper than chords that search the
soul and die,
Mocking to ashes color’s hot array—
Closer than touch—within our hearts
they fie— ,
The words we do not sayf
—Martha G. Dickinson.
Love never faileth.—I Cor. 13:8.
Oh, watch and, fight and pray,
The battle ne’er give o’er;
Renew it boldly day by day.
And help divine Implore,
—Anon.
There never was night that had no
morn.—D. M. Mulock.
Mrs. Richardson
Is Now Improving
The wide circle of friends of Mrs. E
D. Richardson will be glad to learn
that she is Improving after her late
attack of acidosis. Her daughter, Mrs.
Valno Creasy, of Wilmington, has been
at her bedside constantly.
The "?elatlves and friends of little
Jimmie Creasy, Jr., regretted very
muoh that he was unable to participate
In the Creasy-Hunter wedding, at
which he was. to be ring bearer be
cause of his grandmother's illness.
locusts have fine; pedigree
HARRISBURG, June 30.—A brood ot
17-year locusts—Jn the words of the
scientists Brood No. 14 of the periodical
cicada—the brood which has appeared
I at regular Intervals in this country
I slnoe 1684 when the Pilgrims discov
; ered the Insects In Massachusetts, is
making its appearance in Pennsylvania
this spring. They are present already
in four counties, and are expected in
19 more.,
ENGLAND HAS CHEAP GAS
I LONDON, June 80.—British chemists
have evolved a household gas so harm
I less that would-be suicides oan get no
| more than headache from It.
The new gas, which Is now in use at
Newark-on-Trent, can be produoed at
about a third of the cost of ordinary
gas. It contains only 1.4*per cent of
carbon monoxide, which ijj the poison
ous element in household'^gas. Amer
ican gas contains more th^n 4 per cent
of this ingredient. Cj
This new gas gives OBJ a pungent,
penetrating odor of such wbwer that it
can be detected immediately. In this
lies its protective feature.
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got to hand it to Joe s|} right. He
told me it wasn’t the carburetor or
the motor, but" just, plain leaky
piston rings that were 30 blame all
the time. Well, w,e livjjjjand learn."
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Special Features at
Grace Church Today
Speoial features will characterize
both morning and evening ^ervlees at
Grace Methodist church today.
At the morning service, a tablet hon
oring the memory of Mrs. Henrietta
Watson will be unveiled. Mrs. Watson
was for 58 years a member of this
church and bequeathed one fourth of
her estate to the church.
A patriotic program will feature the
evening service. Major W. A. Graham
will deliver an address on “An Ex
Soldier’s Point of View.” Thle will be
followed by a brief address by the
pastor, Rev. W. A. Stanbury, on "A
National Covenant with God.'' “There
will be special music at each service.
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