AN ANCIENT LETTER I
FROM THE WAR ZONE no
Paul, a Prisoner in Rome. Writes t
the Church at Phillippi Sunday
School Lesson for Feb. 13, "Hum
bled Are Exalted." Phil. 2:11.
(By WM. T. ELLIS.)
Most of the places that figure in
the daily dispatches from the viol , f the same mind, having the same
zones might almost as well be oni'ov-'. being of one accord, of one
the moon, so far as the average , mind; doing nothing through faction
reader's sense of their actual loci-J01" through vainglory, but in lowli-
tion goes. In a general way, every-; ness of mind each counting the other
body knows that the Allies have es- better than himself; not looking each
tablished a center at the port of;Cf you to his own things, but each of
Salonica. Greece; and others, less you also to the things of others. Have
numerous, have a vague geograph-; this mind in you, which was also in
ical sense of the news that the Cen-i Christ Jesus; who, existing in the
tral Powers are expected to make
a drive down the great highway;
from Kavalla to Salonica.
When we recall, however, that Uil
this is located on the map of the
Apostle Paul's journeys, and that Sa- found in fashion as a man, He hum
lonica is his Thessalonica, to whose bled Himself, becoming obedient even
Christians he wrote two letters; and unto death, yea, the death of the
that the apex of the present Balkan cross. Wherefore also God highly ex
military situation is exactly where alted Him, and gave unto Him the
Christianity first invaded Europe, in name which is above every name;
the person of the great missionary that in the name of Jesus every knee
apostle, we see a new light. It was,
from the other side of the Agean Sea,:
that Paul caught a vision, in a dream,! earth and that every tongue should
ff a man crying "Come over untoi confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
Macedonia and help us." That sanuthe glory of God the Father."
Macedonia, of which Salonica is thej Nobody can doubt that the world
chief city, is today a center of the
world war.
On the main road between Salonica
;;nd Kavil'.a, a road now worn ino
ruts and hollows by the passage of i Paul become more pertinent and tinv?
the big guns, and about ten miles in- ly than any newspaper editorials or
land from the sea, there is a little legislative debates. Things can be
village and an ancient ruin. Thit'held together in the ominous tomor
ruin is Phillippi, the once proud city row only by a new and nobler way of
that bore the name of Philip of Mace-i thinking. Military preparedness is.
donia. Famous for its gold mines, (from all standpoints, less important
famous for its battles, famous for its j than spiritual preparedness. The
prosperity in olden times, Phillippi is most practical counsel for the people
most famous as the city where thej alive in this year of 1916 is Paul's ex
Apostle Paul first preached the Gos- j hortation, "Let this mind be in you
pel in Eumpe. There may be great! which was also in Christ Jesus."
events in the vicinity of Phillippi i A rare program fur a Christian life
during the present war, but neverthe
less the place will always have ifs
highest honor from the fact that here
Paul established his first church, and: comes from likcmindedness. Any oth
the one which he seemed to love best er kind is vain. A church with one
"fall. All the stately cathedrals and
churches and chapels and monasteries
in Europe and America trace their be
ginnings back to the landing of Paul
at Thillippi.
None f the war literature that has
come out of this neighborhood in re
cent months is comparable in interest
and importance with an old letter,
first preserved in Phillippi and soon
shared with the entire Christian fel
lowship, written by Paul while he was
a prisoner in Rome. A noble passage
from this letter, which still glows and
throbs with the warm personal friend
ship of the writer for the recipients,
has been selected by the Internation
al Lesson Committee for study thisjed spirit within is the made-over so
week by the Sunday schools of the;cial order to come. Once people are
world. We can imagine with what fired by the mind of Christ, all the
peculiar interest the lesson will be j ills of society will disappear, for self-
read by many British mothers and
children whose husbands or fathers
and brothers or sons are at present
within ten miles of the ancient homes
cf the people to whom the original
letter was written.
If today's local color of the lesson
is dramatic, what shall we say of the
background during the years 61 and!
62. when the enistle itself was ncn-
ned ? And these circumstances need
to be borne in mind for a clear un
derstanding of the message written
by Paul. The author was in a prison
in Rome, chained to a soldier. Proud j cried: When Thou, O my God,
and heartless Nero, the madman, was;wuldst show Thy love for the world
on the throne. All the pomp and ! Thu Kavest it Thy Son. When Thou
glory of that luxurious and ostenta- j wouldst show Thy love for Thy Son
tious age lies behind the letter. j Thu gavest Him a Cross." Where-
With Paul in his imprisonment was upon T. H. Dai low comments, in his
Timothy, the beloved. The Christians', wonderful little book, "The Print of
at Phillippi, newly out of heathen-' the Nails." "We can only say, 'Here
dom, but with tender memories of in is love' we have no other words
their brave teacher, had sent to the!to use 'Herein is love, and awf il
apostle in prison one of their num-' consolation and almighty healing and
ber, Epaphroditus, who had borne ainoPc''
gift of money and many messages of j
love, and these had touched thej THE BIBLE AND LYNCHING,
hearts of the imprisoned heroes.'
Epaphroditus himself had fallen Ml
in Rome apparently from the dreaded
Roman fever. His life had been de
spaired of, but the prayers of the
church had saved him. So he was
sent back to his fellow church mem
bers at Phillippi with this loving let
ter of counsel from the Apostle who,
in his prison in Rome, recalled the
time he had been a prisoner at Phil
lippi, having been arrested on the
trumped-up charges of fortune telling
grafters. An earthquake had opened
the doors of the Phillippi prison while
Paul and Silas were singing hymns
in the night. On that very night the
jailer and his family were converted.
Such were the facts behind the lette--.
A choice fragment of the letter has
been chosen for the present lesson.
It reveals the writer's solicitude over
dangers of discord that threatened
the church at Phillippi, and gave the
Apostle's remedy. He applied the
highest resources of the Christian
faith to meet the needs of every un-
toward situation. The troubled
church, and the troubled life, can find
clearer path to peace than a rever
ent, open-minded and repeated study
of these 11 verses from Paul's great
letter to the Christians in old Phil
lippi. I from the American Stan
dard Revision:
"If there is therefore any exhorta
tion in Christ, if any consolation of
love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any tender mercies and compas-
sions, make full my joy, that ye be
form of God, counted not the being
on an equality with God a thing '.o
be grasped, but emptied Himself tak-
ing the form of a servant, being made
in the likeness of men; and bein;
should bow, of things in heaven and
things on earth and things under the
war is bringing a new order of civil
ization. How shall we make ready
for this? By a new state of mind,
and only so. Thus these old words of
is compacted by Paul into the few
sentences of the lesson. First, he
wants church unity, of the kind which
mind and that the mind of Christ
is free from all danger of schisms and
strife. The proposed World Confer
ence on Faith and Order cannot sur
pass Paul's program for real Chris
tian unity.
In two pregnant phrases the Apos
tle strikes to the root of the new
world order that the gospel is bring
ing to pass: "Not looking each of
you to his own things, but each of
you also to the things of others. Have
this mind in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus." In this Christian un
selfishness lies the only hope of hu
man brotherhood. Not by laws im
posed from without, but by an inspir-
ishness will have gone to its own
place.
In a time when arrogance, assert
iveness and force were even more
rampant than today, Paul held up the
picture of a Christ whose glory was
that He had made Himself of no rep
utation, literally, had emptied Him-
self and had assumed a slave's task,
all for the glory of God. As did the
Master, so should the disciple do. It
is the eternal mystery of sacrifice,
the triumph of which has been demon
strated. As Thomas A. Kempis
God's Warning Against Avenging
Ourselves The Future of the
Lyncher.
Rev. D. H. Tuttle, in The Charlotte
Observer.
Permit me space in your columns
for this communication, which I trust
will be worth while to some just at
this time when all Invnl rntivnt-iu tt
the good (?) Old North State feel i
hurt at heart because of the Wayne
county lynching.
Lynch-law is the act or practice
by private persons of inflicting
punishment for crime without due
process of law, and is committed in
the hot and hasty spirit of revenge
To lynch a criminal is a far greater
crime than any for which men are
lynched, and it can never be justified
on the ground that some other crim
inals failed to get full justice in the
courts. If one man or one com
munity has the right to set aside law
and order in their own interests then
all others have, and so we would
quickly reduce civilization to savage-1
ry. Lynch-law is premeditated; its
manner of execution arranged for and
its administration cruel in tho ex
treme. Lynch-law is crazy; often not
sure as to the guilt of its victim. In
1914, four person'? were lynched that
were afterward found to be innocent.
The lynchers of those persons were '
most certainly murderers of the first
degree. Crazy again because it knows
not at what crime to limit its venge
ance. In 1915, there were 69 lynch
ings in the United States 11 for as
sault; murder, 17; killing officers of
the law, 9; clubb.ng officers of the
law, 4, two men and two women;
poisoning stock, -3; stealing hogs, 2;
insulting women, 3; entering wom
en's rooms, 2; wounding a man, 2;
stealing meat, 1; burglary, 2; rob
bery, 1; looting, 1; stealing cotton, 1;
charged with stealing a cow, 1;
furnishing ammunition to man resist-
ing arrest, 2; beating wife and child,
1, white; charged with being acce.i-
sory to the burning of a barn, 1. In
this list we find 19 different offenses
for which persons were lynched. In
the light of these facts what is it
that one suspected of crime may not
be lynched provided the injured party
can secure two or more neighbors tT
assist him ? It is as if vengeance was
gieedy. The white-winged dove of
mercy was never at a lynching, and by which additional power would be
in the working out of God's unvary- j given the Governor to check the
ing law of retribution will not be at ' lynching spirit. It apepars that un
the bedside of the dying lyncher. The ! der the present laws the Governor
Bible says that men love darkness ' can do nothing until the civil author-
rather than light because their deeds
r e v il: John 3:19. The lyncher.'
time for action is the night time;
midnight or after. At the bar of his
own conscience he is convicted of
being afraid to do his deed in the
daytime. Nevertheless his lawless
deed was not hid. God saw it. God
will follow each lyncher through life's
day, and all along God will ply the
lash of condemning conscience.
With God are the means of punish
ment and in their use the way of the North Carolina in fact, suits all
transgressor is made hard. God has j States as well. "There has been a
said, "Be sure your sin wil find you great deal said to the effect that the
out." Officers cf the law may never courts are not doing their duty," con
discover you, but still you know in j tinucd The News. "That cannot re
bitterness of soul that your sin has : fer to judges, but only to grand
found you out, and is disturbing your
life. Already some are wishing that
they had not been there; that the
unlawful shedding of blood that night
was not chargable to them. But it
is. Next morning they washed faces
and hands, but that negro's blood
cannot be washed .from their con
science it will dry there. Had the
criminal been left in the hands of
the law the future of each lyncher
would have been brighter than it now
is. As the case now stands the poor
negro's chance of eternal life, poor
as it is, is better by far than that
of any of his slayers. He had con
fessed his crime, and submitted him
self to punishment in one form. Will
any one who aided in that lawless
taking of human life ever confess it?
Will he to save his soul from a death
less death in "outer darkness" ever
turn State's evidence and bring his
partners in crime to light and to the
earthly punishment that awaits them?
Will any, or all of them ever come to
believe and confess that it would be
better to make an "open breast" of
the whole awful crime and take the
punishment of an earthly tribunal,
than to hide the crime in their un
easy bosoms for life's short day and
j then meet face to face the Judge froi.i
whose eternal sentence there can be
no appeal: II Thess. 1:7-10; Rom.
2:6-11. The case of the lyncher 13
almost as hopeless as that of a I
suicide. The lyncher can repent but!
will he? As I think of the per-1
petrators of that terrible lynching, j
or any other, the words of Jacob to;
Simeon and Levi, come into mind: I
"Simeon and Levi are brethren; in-1
struments of cruelty are in their j
habitations. ' i
"O my soul, come not thou into
their secret; unto their assembly, j
mine honor, be not thou united; forj
in their anger they slew a man, and
in their self will they digged down u
wall (broke prison locks.)
"Cursed be their anger, for it was
fierce; and their wrath, for it was
cruel. Gen. 49:5-7."
The crime that called forth this
strong language is recorded in Gen.
34th chapter. Two great sins are
chargable to all lynchers: (1) They
defy Almighty God by setting aside
the Government which He has or
dained, and commands
respect. Rom. 131-3. To resist hu
man government is to resist the ordi-
r,an f Gd: "and. they that resist
receive to themselves damnation.
(2) The Wayne county and all other
lynchers invade the divine right to
the exclusive use of vengeance.
Vengeance is a divine instrument of
most awful punishment so terrible
that God forbids men to use
jt j
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord." Rom. 12:19.
God warns us against avenging our
selves. There is no need of our do
ing so. If we undertake to get even
with bad folks we will get uneven
with God. Will not God avenge all
wrong? Has He ever failed to puni.-h
sin? Men may learn how to handle
electricity, dynamite, and deadly
poisons ' so as not to destroy humm:
life, but God alone knows how to
handle vengeance, where and when to
use, and how to stop its terrible tide
of fiery destruction. Lynching is un
bridled vengeance and those who
snatch it from God's hands will find
that they have done so to their own
undoing for "whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap."
Burlington, N. C, Feb. 3.
RESPONSIBILITY LOCATED.
Charlotte Observer.
Kev. D. H. Tuttle contributes
The Observer some thoughtful re
marks on the subject of lynching,
treating the matter from the stand
point of the Bible. His definition of
lynch law is brief, but all-embracing
and there can be no contention
against the proposition that "if one
man or one community has the right
to set aside law and order in their
own interests, then all others have,
and so we would quickly reduce civ-
llization to savagery. lhe call '.o
the lynchers to "mark time" seems
to have been heard also in Georgia,
where the lynching fever has run riot
in the recent past. Governor Har
ris, as a last resort, will ask the Leg-
islature to mage changes in the law
ities apepal to him, and, as The Sa
vannah News sagely remarks, "the
civil authorities have little chance to
appeal until after the lynching has
taken place." The News makes a
deliverance on conditions in Geor-
j gia that might be regarded as perti
rent to North Carolina, the State that
emerged from one entire year with-
i out a lynching only to enter a new
one with a broken record. The ar
gument as applied to Georgia, suits
juries. Judges do not get a chance
to preside at trials of lynchers be
cause grand juries do not indu-t
them because no evidence is present-
! ed upon which to base an indictment.
Make it possible for the Governor to
remove any sheriff who fails to make
arrests in lynching cases and, even
then, would there be trials of lynch
ers? Most likely not; for it would be
less important in the eyes of lynch
ers for a sheriff to lose his job than
for twenty or thirty or a hundrel
men to be charged with murder, pre
meditated murder, the penalty for
which is hanging."
The News argues that it all comes
back in the end to public sentiment;
and so long as people are afraid or
for any other reason unwilling to
give evidence against lynchers, it is
going to be difficult to prevent lynch
ings. "The people themselves must
give aid to sheriffs, must be willing
and anxious to give evidence before
grand juries to rid the State of this
ugly evil that has brought more crit
icism upon Georgia than all the other
violations of the laws of the State in
the last 10 years," says The News.
"It may be a terrible admission, but
it must be admitted that the Gover
nor and the Legislature and the
sheriffs' forces have so far been un
able to stop lynching and are likely to
fail to stop it in the future unless a
healthier sentiment against lynching
grows up all through the State. This
is not to say that there is not already
a strong desire to rid Georgia of the
evil, but that the dsire has not been
backed up by the willingness of in-
dividuals to give testimony against
lynchers." After all, is it not the
bare, unvarnished fact that public
sentiment, itself, is responsible for
the prevalence of lynching?
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