The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-26

cense, it gave him a feeling of the sin
fulness of himself and his people.
He saw that the real king was the
king of glory Jehovah of hosts. and
they had been traitors to him. AS he thus
stood overawed by the tenor OF Jehovah
and the majesty of his glory one of the
Seraphim flew down and took a coal
from of the altar and touched his lips.
saying, $50 this hath touched thy lips
and thy iniquty is taken away thy sin
forgiven"
Then he realized that a sight of the
glory and majesty of Jehovah. the king
could not only reveal to us the serious
ness of our SINS but could also inpart
forgiveness and peace. Not in the world
power of the palace but in the moral
power of the temple was salvation to be
found. There is more power in one coal
from Jehovah's altar than in all the
spendor of earthly pomp
Then feeling that he had been pardoned
and made a member of Jehovah's court
he heard the call from the throne.
"Whom shall / send and who will go for
us2" He could but answer ready for duty
to his new-found king, Here am I; send
me-" And he went forth no longer
prophet from uzziah's court, but from
Jehovah's temple and to his people.
Teaches Statecraft.
Probably the principles of statecraft
and healthy social life have never been
SO clearly and forcbly stated as in this
prophecy of Isah, Jehovah's statesman.
We have many lessons to learn for the
healing of social disease, but no teacher
excells this missionary from Jehovah.
We have his earliest preaching in the
second and third chapters of the book
First he pictures the Jerusalem IDEAL
the capital of Jehovah exalted above all
other temples or capitals of the earth,
and all nations making pilgrimages thlth-
er for his law and his word, saying:
Come let us go up to the mountain of
Jehovah, to the house or the God of Ja-
cob, and he will teach us his ways and
we will walk in his paths"
Then there will be an empire of peace
when Swords shall be beaten into pillow
shares and spears in pruning hooks, and
nation shall not lift up sword against ma
ton. and neither shall they learn war
any more"
Remember this picture of the empire of
peace also given us by the prophet Mi
cab, was drawn when the whole world
was at war and the earth was drunk
with the blood of battle. 1t could only be
painted by him whose eyes had seen
the king. Jehovah of hosts"
But this was only the ideal Jerusalem
Alas Jerusalem the real is quite differ
ent. 1t is filled with eastern fads, Phllis-
tan soothsayers are hail-felow- we'll
met with heather. 1t was weighted down
with wealth. 1t was filled with beautiful
and costly idols of silver and gold. II
was vain in its own conceit and naughty
and proud against Jehovah and the sim
pie life of Mosasm 1t was fun of graft,
as we are today, land the spirit of the
poor was in the house of the rich"
The Vice of Graft
The vice which has always brought dis
ease and death to society Is graft I
tremble for our land today because of the
prevalence and liberation of the terrible
crime of men in fiduclary positions using
this power to fill their own pockets The
recent report of the insurance commits
sioner of New York shows that the
prince among insurance men, the late
great Uzziah secretly used his office as
guardian of his policy holders savings
for their widows and oprhans was not
above betraying his sacred trust and rob-
bling widows houses
What princes of wealth should, mer-
chant princes. should surrender their in
tegrity for such a petty stealing shows
how cheapy human nature will sell itself
to sin. The great names who put out
their hands to receive the graft in this
corporation is a symptom of disease that
is so pronounced as to call for prompt
and severe measures to relieve society of
this graft which has grown so great.
Graft is our national sin as it has al
way been. The love of money is the root
of every kind of evil and always has
| been.
The gospel of Isiah preached for the
salvation of society was 1.-THE tenor of Je-
hovah and the majesty OF his glory"
Let the evil doors know that there Is a
God in the land, a God of holiness and
he has ordained the powers that be to be
tenor to them that do evil and praise
to them that do well.
The Remedy for the Evil.
Visit these evil-doers with day of Je-
| hovah. In the sacred house Of God we
need some senators and millionaires in the
penitentiary to show the tenor of Je-
hovah and the majesty of his glory. We
need to vindicate the God we serve as a
just God without respect of persons.
But now can 1t be done The people
themselves permit this graft Grand
juries permit 1t and the princely thieves
with the spoil of the poor In their houses
go unpublished. Nothing but a revival OF
strong, sturdy morality where right and
equity are clothed in the minds of men
with majesty divine can make the NOR
ais of men strong Teaching and preach
Ing ethics Will never DO It, They already
know the right and approve u, and yet
the wrong pursue" The weakness is not
the defective knowledge but degenerate
moral courage. Men have found many
| system of ethics to teach the mind to
know the right, but only one thing can
| brace the will, and that Is a vision OF
| God in his holy sovereignty and ma
jestic glory.
We need a revival of religion as il
deepens morals in business. politics, So