The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-15
zen WITH TOUCHED
TONGUES.
THE.

MEN WITH TOUCHED
TONGUES.
Prayer Meeting Topic of the
Young Peoples Societies. Christian
Endeayor, Etc. for July 20. "Fav-
orite Verses. III. In the Prophet
ical Books Hos. IA 10.
(By William T. Ellis.)
Some men have spoken for God.
That is a truth which nobody who
believes in a personal God will deny.
The Hebrew figure is that of men
whose lips have been touched by a
coal from off the high altar Of God.
Their tongues have been made sa-
cred. They have spoken the truth for
the hour, which abides for all time.
once said, n ot foretellers, but forth
tellers." Their function was to speak
forth the mind Of God for the guild
ance of man. They We're men who
were Supremely alive to Spirual things.
SO enrapt Of God were they, that fthey
were needless of earthly %potentates.
They old the truth, regardless Of it's
effects upon men. Nowadays these
ancient Hebrew Scers, who had a won
derful passion for social justice. are
furnishing the message for the latest
and fullest Interpretation of Gods
mind toward men.
The only truth forth stating is that
which can be translated into life. A
recent issue of the american Mag
azine' had a remarkable poem called
His Interviewed Bible" by Sarah N.
C~leghorn, which is pertinent to this
topic:
Where the Prophets burning chal-
lenge lights and thrills the sacred
Lies a mutely answering pledge, from
fiery youth to steadfast age;
lis the tiny faded flag hat in his
early teens he wore
Marching to the Freedom Rally at the
crossroads store.
I'm the Psalmist's tender idyl of the
pastures still and sweet,
Watered by the living stream where
sheep and gentle shepherd meet.
Long ago and far away, he placed
this lock Of silver hair.
Finding that his mothers Bible
opened always there.
by the verse Who is my neighbor? p
unmolested long hath laid
This forgotten mortgage note. en-
with age and still I'M
Here in Holy Writ it lay. while safe
ly throve, secure from harm,
A young widow and her children, on
a mortgaged farm.
In the asst and greatest chapter Of
the vision Of ST. John,
Where the Spirit and the Bride the
homlng souls urge ever on.
Is a sprig of fadeless myrtle. pluck.
ed with changeless heart ano
brave,
, On a poignant April even, by his
!, n owes grave.
e The true prophet is at once q mar
: OF the hour and of the long view. Hi.
present teaching is of
application. Thus the words smoke,
e for he ancient Jews, amid condition.
4 utterly different from our present life
+; still express the fundamental truth 70
today.
t Times may change. but the soul =
t man is essentially the same. That i
Il why the message Of the true pronha
is Of universal application.
e The best commentary upon the su
p~ernaturai quality OF the prophetica
books of the Old Testament is a yisi
to Assyria and Babylonia. If anythin
could more completely fulfill the pre-
dlctions of Isaih than the state q
Babylon today this present trayele
a cannot imagine it. | approached tn
IS ruins OF the clty or NeDuChadneZza
I, by the Euphrates River, and on ~
n boat J had been reading Isaiah's pro
= chez Of the city given over to vii
. hSe-t' (i2: 20-22), and as | ente-e
" tSe eAIa7ated palace Of Nebuchad
r@2G1' himself, q jackal ran from be
frrc II: Later or a wall. I "a,
e cerA.a>. an owl, No modern travel
mas Tti-,cn 50 vivid a description :
\. the present state Of the kinodorr
Ii which oppressed the Children of Isra,
las may be read IN the Old Tesiame,
j. prophets.
H..
+ The message of a prophet should ,
SO taken IN rs entirety; our a h;t :,
reading and memorizing by Isolate
trnfh o1 Der Goes violence to the who
du,n< But This iopic calls for IA,
oal.e verses from the prophets
se oecasion IS taken to quote some m.