The Washington herald., 1914-08-16

of q German Fatherland. men wrote
books speaking and pleading for II; but
II was only when the idea became wide
spread. when the hearts of the nation
were turning toward II. that It became
incarnate in Bismarck, the statesman; in
Moltke, the general. And so II IL ever
| true that where an idea is born In the
hearts of the people and spreads far and
wide among them. sOe great man Is
born in whom that idea takes shape, who
carries II TO realization.
When you see a growing tendency to-
wards union among religions and among
people; when you ind men speaking Of
universal peace; when you hnd them
discussing the possibility OF federation,
then you may know that the world-move-
ment towards union must needs take in
carnation In those who shall accomplish
/ II And who shall make the union of
religions actual save the world-Teacher
who has given religions to the world?
In this sense II Is true that the proverb
says that coming events cast their
shadows before: for the events occur in
the spiritual world, and the expectation
Of those events lie the shadow in the
minds OF men which gradually forecasts
| the realization here. When We hear on
all sides the cry that a great religious
| teacher is needed; when we ind from
pulpit after pulpit there rings out the
longing for a great teacher who shall
draw mems hearts together and make
the brotherhood Of religions and OF ma
| tons an actuality in the world, then we
/ hnd that We are face to face with one
| Of those world-movements that embody
themselves in world-leaders, and that the
longing for q universal World Religion
will become incarnate in the person Of a
World-Teacher, who will make that re-
ligion manifest on earth, and wars shall
be no more.
GreRt Crisis Approaches.
As We realize that We are Just Ntouch-
ing on one OF these great crises in hu-
man history; as intuition. which Is the
| voice Of the far-seeing Spirit. confirms
the conclusion at which the reason has
haltingly arrived; then shall arise in
our hearts a question; When He comes,
will the world receive Him? Shall his
tory here repeat itself. and the story OF
Judea, and even Calvary. once more be
played. a mighty tragedy on the stage
| Of the theater Of the world?
II, instead of across the centuries and
the wonderful radiance which the wor-
ship Of millions has shed on the figure
OF the Christ. you were looking at Jeru-
salem of 1000 years ago, how different
then would seem the story of that life,
how different the judgment you would
pass on that new Prophet that had
arisen among the Jews. Can you not
by your Imagination recall the inevitable
| features OF the time? Picture TO your
self the young. UNKNOWN man rising
amid a proud. a naughty people. and
giving them a message other than the
message they expected? Try to live for
| a little time in those early centuries and
realize the feeling Of the people the
hckle populace who for a moment heard
Him gladly and then caught up stones to
cast at Him; the people swayed by every
breadth OF change now loving and now
hating, now shouting "Hosanna" and
Cruelty" Try to think what you would
have felt had you been one Of that Jew
ish people then-a stranger. a man not
learned in the teaching of the Pharisees.
no Rabbi or recognized teacher OF the
people; perhaos stirring up the people,
perhaps causing discomfort and even re-
bellion. a hereto in religion. perchance
a danger to the State. Then you will
on Jerusalem when the people knew Him
dead, and they felt a source OF danger
had been cleared away.
The value OF the teaching of the Christ
showed itself in history: IL did not show
Itself 10 the people who heard the words
fall from His lips And il is not sur
lprising; for the higher the Teacher the
more difficult is 1t 10 grasp the value
OF the teaching that He gives. The ac-
ceptable teacher is the man who says
a thing a little better than we can say
not the man who Is high above US and
who speaks the things of heaven in the
dull ears Of earth.
PreudIce Against Color.
Let me bring you down from 1000 years
ago to the Washington OF our time, and
see how far prejudice would be against
the coming of such a Teacher. how far
the thought Of today would would be
willing to bow before the words that He
might speak. Take one thing, very COM
mon. very widespread-your prejudice
against races whose color is other than
your own. Suppose the Christ took the
body of Hindu. would you be willing
to recognize Him as the Supreme Teach
er? That prejudice is no more strange
than the prejHdices which prevented the
Jews from recognizing the Christ in one
of their own people. This is one OF the
practical questions you want to consider.
for in the past the Teachers have all
been Easterns. The Christ was an East
ern. But the men who worship Him
shut out the Easterns who are nearer to
Him in blood than are themselves, and
no one seems to think very much Of II:
no one seems to consider that they may
be building up a wall of prejudice which
shall prevent their eyes from recognizing
Him when He comes. So one OF the
things from which you should clear your
minds. IL your vision would be clear, will
be every prejudice OF race. All that pride
that makes you think the white man is
the favorite of God and none other. Un-
til that is thrust out of the heart Of
every one Of us. until We extend hands
not Of patronage and condescension, but
of equal brotherhood to men OF every
race and every color. may it not be that
when the Christ Is amongst us We snah
reject Him because He is not OF our
blood and kind?
How shall we be able to recognize the
spirituality of the teaching, II II puts
things in a different way from the way
to which We are accustomed: IL ii pre-
sents some spiritual truth from a new
aspect and in a new light7 First, by
trying In our own selves to develop the
spiritual above the intellectual and the
emotional. to unfold to ourselves the
spiritual life which will recognize its kin
when IL seems spirituality in its highest
, and most wonderful form. For the
measures of heaven are not the measures
of earth, and the divine scales differ
very much from our human balances.
Revenge Unnecessary.
We admire very often pride and high
estate, splendor of intellect or magic
of emotion. But the spiritual man is
gentle, calm, meek, and ,unresentful. How