The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-09

| statesman: frequently the newspaper
editor is: the. woman WHO is denied
a vote Is vet not denied the greater
privilege of serving her country DE
her deep spiritual insight. There WIZ
never again be another Joan OF arc,
to go forth to battle. but We may wen
expect hat the hosts of highest pa
triotism ard human service will be
led b. the song. the vision, the sum
cons, OF women prophets.
How to Get a Style.
This flaming message of the Prophet
Isaiah is couched in the Hottest and
noblest literary style. With good rea-
son. The simple explanation for so
much commonplace and stupid preach
ing and writing is that the preachers
and writer's are not On fire with a
great passion. Isaiah had a mighty
message. touching his country and his
God; therefore he dipped his pI1 in
living fire and wrote. There are hun
dreds of ambitious young people today
buying books upon authorship, ana
sending their efforts to l~ong-SufferIns
friends, or to secondrate hired literary
hacks. for criticism. What really ails
them is that they have no tremendous
passion or conviction.
In India / have come across an ex-
tr~aOrdinary and revealing fact: The
literature of the Nationalist, the
young 'India for the Indians" party,
is couched in the most exalted Ian
guage, SO that professors OF iltera-
ture, who have not a shred Of sym
pathy With this propaganda, confess
that they a w never read such sub
lime and beautiful literature in the
native tongue as these yOung patriots
are producing. They admit that it is
beyond their power to give an de
Quate translation of it into English.
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the life of today signify? Simply that
great passions are productive OF
great ability. There are today in our
school young people ~abundantly able
to be our modern Isaiahs. If only
they may be exalted into a loftier
conception of life, and Of patriotism
and OF human service. Is not this a
school classes? Let us learn to speak
and write and draw and make music,
all for the sake Of our native land
and our fathers God. There is every
evidence that we have abundant ma
terial for the creation of patriots
who will redeem our popular songs
from their insufferable vulgarity and
inanity who will produce new forms
Of patriotism and socialized litera-
ture-satires, a~llegories. poems. prov
cribs, who will elevate c~aricature to
its highest form and use; who will
paint great patriotic canNaSeS: who
will find a new and higher mission for
the moving-picture machine. and the
Photographs; who will consecrate the
wings Of the flying machine to the
holy cause Of nationalism and inter-
nationalisTn-in a word, who will take
OF the OF this twentieth cen
tury. n make them minister to the
nobleSt Ideals and deepest needs of our
country and the world.
Where Are the Prophets?
All truth belongs to today; it is
less Isaiah'S message to the old Jews
than to the living, wandering, sin
ming, beclouded men and women of
u own time that concers us now.
writer Of this wonderful book,
with it's beautiful passages which
have become imbedded in the litera-
ture Of the language, stands first OF
all for the truth hat every time
eneds prophets. Why are the big pull
pits of America sending across the
water for preachers? It Is a pleasant
expression Of international good will
to have these men from the mother
country; but what an Indictment OF
ourselves! 1t is nothing less than q
confession hat America, on both sides
OF the border, is not produc-
ing her own prophets. Even with fire.
Quent importarions, an alarming num-
ber.Of conspicuous pulpits remain va
cant.
Frankly. we badly need religious
leaders. No. not prominent eccles1as-
tics; the world, the flesh and the devil
constantly cOnspire to the Overpro-
duction OF his undesirable article. But
men who know God and who know
man; who walk in suc intimacy with
the Eternal, that spiritual things are
the most real to them, and yet know
themselves but men. weak, SHINING
men. needing pardon along with the
worst, SO that they are borthers to all
their kind-for these the need was
never greater. They who keep close
to God are properly highest to men.
The sense of the reality and awful
holiness of the infinite is still, as it
was in Isaiah's day. the most neces-
sary equipment of the prophet. A
keen realization Of God is more to he