The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

months World relationships ,sv.
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LphS nave dlSa appeared and irrar7n-uo- 4
!i.i inSularitleS have be-u h-iiCpf
AheSlahc"S which once seemed Ciea-
and simple have become confused
olr Very conceptions If society hay.
been affected old thiaas hava pass
Ell away. behold. au things ha.. be
,oHlH new seams d Scripture for NJ.
hour RutS that were blown up or
ooiiterated II is not easy even 10 he
a conventional thinker Most people
are standing dazad and amazed amid
world phenomena without precadoo,
and almost without ryDIa0at;rr
! Frankly. ii Is hard TO think straight
| IN these twisted times SO let US tix
| our minds on thTec sure things that
! nothing can shake. though ali else
changes First is that despite cur
too small notions Of Him God stil'
! relenS and l. working out His own
| purposes. Second. human hrot her
| hood is needed more than ever We
are under obligation 10 be citizens
OF the world. And third the next
thing, the near-;.t hand task. re-
mains to be done.
| In working out the new world
Ideals which the mutations Of recent
months have made necessary, these
three factors need 20 be held toulin-
ant: a fresh loyalty TO Cod new
sense of world brotherhood and
quickened devotion to ones own task
and work. Reverence. fraternity ard
efficiency will SO come to pass These
! may roVerently he said TO be goals OF
God. He surely wants all men to be
. | His loyal children. and to love one
: another. and to develop to the fun the
ca pa cities with which He has endowed
them
; There has been too much Of narrow
ness and setfshness in the ideals
which have ruled the world hitherto
From the days Of Babylon until nov
great nations have put their own az
. era ndizefnent as the first Of All Oh
l j"Ctives. They have held The Norl(
Il for our country; and that policy ha
> worked out into misunderstanding
) divisions, expressions and milijari SIN
+ Now the new IDEAL. which is reall,
{ that of Christian missions is. "ou
: country for the world" In othe
e words only as the unseltish an.
J world serving spirit Of Christ IS mad
n master Of our ideals can We hope f.
Z: state Of society truly Christian.
II A new note has como into IA
: worlds poetry during this war Tn
2 glori1icatOn Of arms has been hear
le scarcely at all Battlefield heroes z
rt unsung. Instead our poets are .,
IS tuning their Tyres TO the vaster huma
l. note and to the note Of reverence |
e God The following example /
af Alfred Noyes, is almost typical Of IT
I'd days poetry; he calls it "A Prayer
Time of War;
Of Thou, whose deep ways in tt
as sea,
10 Whose footsteps are not known.
r Tonight a world that turned fro
Thee
RI Is Waiting+at Thy throne
n: The towering Babels that we raise
,is Where scoffing sophists brawl.
f. The little Antichrists we praised
10 The night is on them all.
a The fool hath said-the fool hal
rs said,
k And we who deemed him wise.
nd We who believed that Thou wa
o. dead,
!, How should we seek Thine eyes?
How should we seek to Thee {
20 Who scorned Thee yesterday?
or How should we kneel, in this DIRE;
% hour?
:
49, Lord teach us how to pray!
ho Grant us the single heart once mo
IA That moCks no sacred thing.
49, The sword of Truth our fathers wO
I'd. WREN i'ou "0'
- Il .et darkness unto darkness tell
'be Our deep unspoken prayer,
80 For, while our souls in darkness CIV
We know that Thou art there"
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