Newark post., 1914-06-17
DR.. LICHLITER URGES
LIFE OF USEFULNESS
Old Ideals Must Be Trans
lated Into Modern Terms

One Of the strongest baccalaur
cate sermons heard at Delawar
College for years was that Of Sun
day evening, preached by the Rev
M. II. Lichliter, d. D., Of Grace M
E. Church, Baltimore. DR.. Lich
liter chose as his text Isaiah 50tl
chapter and 4th verse: 1.-The Lore
God hath given me the tongue O.
the learned, that | should know
how to speak a word in season tt
him that is weary: he Wakenetf
morning by morning, he wakenett
mine ear to hear as the learned.
The speaker in beginning referred
to specific demands made by every
age upon the Christian community
and character. There was an age
which demanded Of the Christian
the going to the stake; another age
demanded witness-bearing.
What is the outstanding call of
our own age? To what sort Of at
tack is religion, in our own day,
subjected? Unbelief has largely
settled down to a polite intellectual
questioning of religion. Different
scientists have offered various sub
stitutes, one well-knoWn writer sug-
costing the new text: "Come unto
me and for your need ] will teach
you the beauty and dignity Of hui
man nature. " In these days the
Christian community is challenged
to produce men who can think for
Christ. In the scholarship of our
day we must find men filled with
inspiration. The Doctor Of Philos-
ophy may help only as the Doctor
of Philosophy is first of all hu-
man being. Every scholar should
have as his first ambition the at
tainment of the degree of ID. c.. L.
Of Common Life. TO trans
lnute knowledge into Love-this is
culture. This is the scholarship of
Jesus and the world is asking for
men patterned after this mould
a combination Of scholarship and
saintship.
DR.. Lichliter announced the
theme Of his remarks: the mark of
the spiritual saint. (D The mark
of the spiritual Great scholars. he
declared, are always receptive, al
ways modest. Jesus has emphasiz-
ed the temper of the graet scholar
III the marvellous parable of the
talents. The most damning sin of
the intellect, the speaker declared,
is unteachableness-the assumption
that we are masters.
There S always hope for the man
whose scholarship bears the in
splratlon Of the spiritual. (2) The
mark Of the Social. All knowledge
has been given for the primary rea-
son of service. The social workers
OF generation ago failed because
they talked glibly about the social
problems of the poor, but neglected |
the poor themselves. The social
problem is forever personalizing
itself, i'll every village, town and .
city. 1t must be solved not in the
laboratory, but in the street. The
human side must never be over
looked. The call Of our age is a
challenge to the culture of the dav
to search out and keep the fag end
OF humanity. We once were taught
the last word Of religion was char
lty; now we are taught it is JUS
tlce. The world is finding a nobler
form OF Christianity than it has
ever known. The doctors of the
future, we all realize, will deal
with preventive measures, rather
than doctor the ills carelessly ac-
CURED. SO we must treat our SOC
lal problems. Our scholars must 90
out and make the "road to Jericho
safe for travellers. They must
wipe crime and injustice, by pre-
ventive measures from the face of
the earth. Why should there be
poverty in the richest republic on
the earth? ? It's social disease and
we must find the means for it's pre-
vention. The speaker by way of il
lustration referred to the eradica-
ton of yellow fever among foreign
ports; to the repeated attempts to
control the disease; to the cool de-
ilberate action of the young physic-
ian, Lazlerre, in shutting himself |
away from everyone in a closed
room, and barring his arm to the
deadly mosquito; of his watching
carefully the advance of the fatal
disease, recording every detail