The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-26

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raf1s or intricate airshiD, men the
49, of the human hand and its MN
ic+rv shall have been infected, mo-
alone through manufactures put
through the liberal arts as Wei :
through music with the handlin5 q
the harp and organ, throusii
+nrn with its grOined arch ana lltS-
coed wall. through painting Win is
miles and miles Of canvas whose every
inch has received number1ess touches
! Of the brush Of the artist. ana throuSI
sculpture with the mallet ana ciisel'
held the one in the right hand o. lit
artisf and the other III the left-unoef
he fur sweep of sucn reflections let us
,aad Tho el0uuent order OF t1fl9i
Gosnel. And He entered again INTO
the and there was q man.
there which had 4 uithered hahd'
The whole gospel Is a Single piS'uie,
the curse OF sin symbo1ized by a WITH
ered hand: the salvation Of Christ by
its restoration
Nan ". = sheep.
h intense social passion which IS
possessing the hearts OF modern man
to a steadily Increasing degree. had
it's soring in the teachings and lie OF
Jesus. He cared supremacy Tor the
human being in the case. i seems as
If there was no precedent tnat ne
would not willingly break for the sake
Of helping people. The Pharlseea
scorn OF common folk he roundiy con-
demned. That they would pat an &c
I clesiastical regulation above q man 5
need excited his contempt. They would
violate their man-made Sabbath laws
for the sake of their live stock. Dut
not for the sake of THEN brethren.
The modern industrial processes
: which are the boast Of our material
civilization, need 10 have the hand OF
Jesus laid upon them: for their disre-
4 90 rl Of life &c GHTihjp WITH Il
civilization which aNOWS his stand
ards. lie cares more for the worker
than for the work. Flesh and blood
are worth more to him. and to so
ciety, than iron castings. coal, or steel
plates and rails. An aroused public
conscience is beginning to echo oni-
nously his c~Nclamation, How much
then is q man OF more value than q
sheep" The Sabbath was made for
man; and the world was made for
man; and science was formulated for
man; and laws were made for man.
God order is inverted when after
God himself man is not put first.
The brOoding, y~earning. hungry
love Of Christ for humanity is being
understood more clearly every day.
N~ariously expressed. the passion may
lie discovered on every hand. The
umbe Of those whose sentiment, like
that of Jesus, is caught by these lines
Of +. W. II. Meyers. is legion:-
under,
Bound who should slave
who should be k.ngs,-
Hearing their one hope with an empty
wonder.
Sadly C-ntented in a show Of things.
Chen With a rush of intolerable crav-
ShiNers throughout me like q trum-
pet-Call,-
Oh to save these. to perish for their
saving,
Die Tor their life. be offered for
them ALL
There is a higher law than may
be found on any human statute books.
1t is the law OF the loving heart OF a
just and sovereign God. AS one COM
mentator. Rev. A. Carr. writes, There
Is something more binding than the
Law, and that is the ]principle which
underlies the Law The Law, rightly
understood, is the expression Of Gods
love to man If Law is so under
stood, it becomes only a blessing, and
not a burden.
In this mood, We face the Sabbath
question:: and we find that it is not a
day to be kept in any liberalism OF
NE' ~ III IL lee Spltil or re-
llglon and reverence. The Lord Of the
abbat redeemed the Sabbath of the
Lord from the letters of Jewish eccle-
siasticism which bound it.
The Sabbath is for mainland for
the best that is in man.
The Sabbath should be a day of
service as we'll as of services.
The Lords Day is also mans dav,
the peru IS that man will divert It to
base uses, forgetting the highest needs
of his best self.
The Sabbath looks back to the first
creation, then to the new creation in
Christ, and forward to the social Gre
auoh sui IN progress. A short
sighted keeping of the n,ts
tomorrow in jeopardy.
All who love the Lord of the dav
will learn to love the day OF the Lord
The best-kept abbath is that which
brings rest and reverence to the great