The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-08

ed? Is Christ or Satan ruling the
earth?
Into the scales. as we weigh this
question, must be thrown the two
thousand years of Christian history,
and the patience of 600 which they
reveal. We recall His word, that
with His a thousand years are as a
day, and my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are my ways your
ways" The conviction Of many Of
the most thoughtful persons is that
this is the last war. The present crisis
is climateric.
Crowding into this holocaust Of
blood and horror are all the lessons of
the futility and hurt Of war which
the world and laborious centuries have
failed to teach. In this stern school
Of war humanity is being taught the
peace lesson. Our small and insular
and distorted ideas are being repudi-
ated, and over all the battlefield men
are dimly discerning the mysterious
providence of the Lord God of Hosts.
By strange violence He is shaking up
this old world to realize it's solidarity.
its interdependence, and its need for
a mind Of brotherhood. Our awed
spirits cry,
"His day is marching on"
The most gigantic task of all time is
being wrought before our eyes by
gigantic means.
A New Power and Program.
Clearly, Enthusiastically, Jesus laid
the task Of winning the world for his
ideals pom the hearts Of his disciples.
Their chief business, he said, should
be the evangel:zation Of mankind.
~Stupendous in its 1mperialism-with-
out any match among the world con
l n,1 ~yo~ th:~ Ya;l l0-~~
by the death-cOnQuering Christ Moth
ing less thar kingship over all the
rations would satisfy Him. He al
ready knew, what we are now learning
by the collapse of the most highly de-
velOped material civilization. that
world dominion could only come ulti-
mately by and to a spiritual ideal.
Now we front this new order. The
program Of world conquest may be
achieved only by some new power.
The authoritative Inference OF Jesus
after he had proclaimed himself King
of all the realms of earth and heaven,
was that the all-Power Of the Chris
tan life in the individual is equal to
this new task. He offered an entirely
method. It is the life OF Christ within
that changes the world without.
Our day is fertile in programs and
weak, in dynamics. 1t needs for. al
our plans Of amelioration and service
a new vitality, adequate to the i'm
mense tasks that await us. What is
that dynamic, that vitality, except the
life Of the everything Christ himself
So that with His commission, goes
HIS equipment, "Lo, / am with you
all h days" Christ: asks his dis.
cipleS to do nothing that he does no.
offer to help them to do. -
When b Battle Flags Are Furled,
To the conviction that religion i:
our need above all needs, h var i
turning the worlds sobered thought
A new generation Of humble minded
Christian disciples are called for. Put
ting away all our time-WOrn AFRO
gance n pride OF intellect, W. ar
to seek to know the mind of Chris
for our day. The world at present
as perhaps never before. wants t.
live up to Christ's program. All othe
plans have collapsed in the presen
unparalleled catastrophe.
? The program is clear. It calls for
l whole world permanently at peace. I
8 would furl all battle flags, by teach
: ing mon in the school Of Christ sin
: cerely to love one another. 1t woul
rule among the nations, by substi
I tuting for the diplomacy of selfshnes
I the new diplomacy OF brotherhood
I The law OF nations would be the LAY
which Christ. laid down for individual
hat life. is a serving and a lovins
The statecraft Of unselfshness shoul
g take is place on the thrones of tn
e world.
Peace will come on earth becaus
Of the men OF good will. The broth
er spirit, which is the kingdom min
and sometimes called the foreign mi,
: sionary enterprise, will bring about
n new mastery OF individual lives b
Jesus Christ. Whoever promotes thu
contamination is helping to prepa,
the new world order which Jesus PR
It scribed after his resurrection and b,
10 fore his ascension.
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