The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-01

lIdl mas Deem IlOdtl llZtu vi IpittSAS
We have learned. at last. the second
commandment. This century Will
not forget to show love to man. FOR
that principle is the touchstone OF al
the thinking of our day.
Real and present n pefilous,
though. is the danger of overlooking
the first OF the two supreme obliga-
tions. Admiral Nathan some years
ago called attention, in a striking ad-
dress, to this tendency of our day. TO
leave God out of our thinking, and to
go after a barren humanltarianISm.
1t is profoundly and universally true
that without God =. without nope
in the world: in other words, all
our social service. all our multifOrn
brotherism, must be vitaliZed by a
passion for God, if it is to endure,
and be saved from mere Journalism.
The first of all commandments, then.
is Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind and with
all thy strength"
One Effect Of the War.
Every person who thinks is daily
wondering about the consequences OF
this world war now raging. The awe
of it at the very outset turned Chris
tianS Of all names and forms to their
taltars in prayers. Now, through its
tears and horror, the world is to
perceive once more, with the quick
ened spiritual perceptions of the
broken heart, that, after all and
through all, the abiding n most
important reality is-God. This uni
VerSal cataclySm will drive the world
to it's knees. In all the tongues of
the many warning nations the one
word spoken o%ftenest is God" He
is today keeping a strict session OF
the school wherein he has been try
ing for centuries to teach mankind
to say Alright the two master words
Good" and brother"
The startling novelty of the truth
5 which Jesus declared to be the first
:, commandment is in the word love
2 always men have feared their gods
and sought to please them. But Je-
hovah wants love as we'll as obedi.
ence. The implications is rather
, staggering: the Lord all cares fol
the affection Of the beings whom HI
p has created! What an eXaltation fol
man! And what a revelation of thu
e character of the Supreme Deity! A.
: friend loves friend, as child owe
e parent with a passion Of outpOuret
affection. SO. and no otherWiS'
should we love the Father in heaven
# taking delight in his presence, ant
O living to give him pleasure.
\ Fad or a Passion?
:HarlOr SOclallStS, VINO take u
the cry for social justice and for hu
man brotherhood as a mere fad, as
diversion for lives overcome WIT
ennui, are the evaporation of tn
IL men and women who with sacrific
ID are serving the worlds great cause
W This Ch~rist-gospel of brotherhood
! no mere fancy, the vogue of a day
III not a pose or a profession, but a pas
e sion and a practice. 1t means a
IN that Jesus declared it to mean whe
~ he linked it up with the Suprem
Obligation; a true love for ones fe
lows. h truths are inseparable
oi real o for God p%ostulates real loy
le for man.; and such love for man
as possible only by the love of Go,
p 1t is ~theocracy that makes democrat
10 possible. And love for a God who
III Father of all races makes possib
d. the new order, love for mankin
aroun the whole world.
Oh Leigh Hurts poem, which Doct'
d Eliot lately said is one Of the thrt
poems which every one should kno'
& is never more pertinent than in tt
" study of the two great comman'
M ments:
ny AbOu Ben Adhem (may his tribe i
crease)
~ Awoke n night from a deep drea
VI Of peace,
ed And saw within the moonlight in h
Will
Making it rich and like a lily
bloom,
RS An angel writing in a book of gold.
lty Exceeding peace had made Ben A
IN. hem bold,
lift And to the presence in the room
en- said,
in What writest thou" The visi
he raised it's head
ate And with a look made Of all swe
accord,
Answered. The names of those w
M love the Lord"
iod And is mine one?" said Abou. IN;
put not So"
is Replied the angel. Abou spoke mt
cd: low,
In But cheerily still, and said. 6" pr
5 a thee, then,
ess, Write me as one that loves his f
md low-men."
DE The angel wrote and vanished. I
next night
1t came again with a great wakeni
the light,