The Detroit times., 1915-10-21

mountain was full OF horses and
chariots OF nre about Elisha.
O weary ones. ye may not see
Your helpers in their downward
flight.
Nor hear the sound OF silver wings
slow beating through the hush of
night
There are who Ike the Seer Of old
can see the helpers God has sent
And how Ilfes rugged mountain
side
Is white with many an angel tent
Whittier.
Blinded hy me dazzling light u
heaven. the Syrian host was cap
tured by Elisha, and led 70 Sama-
ria where. instead ~ Staying them
as was the usage OF the time, the
prophet restored their sight. fed
them. and sent them back 70 Syria.
as messengers Of maguanimity.
The Preacher as a Prophet
What Elisha did for HIS father
! land Is what q legion OF preachers
and priests are doins on the battle
fields OF Europe today He gave his
| best 10 his country. Pc served his
own time. No clustered recluse
was he. Whatever touched the vel
fare OF his people concerned him
| The king on the throne OF Israel
WAS not a man according 70 Ehsha's
taste. but he was king. and so the
prophet upheld him, even at the
risk OF his own head.
Out OF This. and the other Old
Testament stories which We are now
studying. there should come sfresh
I the message OF the high and holy
| character OF patriotism There new
or was a better time than now for
/ intoxicating into youth the truth
/ that loyalty 70 country Is the second
h CHEST obligation OF mortal. only
J loyalty 20 God Himself taking pre-
cedence OF H. In every Sunday
school class. and I'm every church
and school there should he a cult
OF patriotism. that our people NAV
rightly understand and support the
nation We need patriotic prophets
even more than We need patriotic
soldiers
10 thy part
Here in the living day. as did the
great
Who made old DAYS immortal
Serving the state anew by vir'uous
lives;
Guarding tho country's honor as
their own.
Ard their own as their couutry's
and their sons
n=fying leagued fraud with single
truth
No, fearing loss and daring to be
pure
Richard Watson Glider
This is a time for patriotism. md
sor praying patriotism N rha' Like
Elisha. We should 5e driven 10 orr
knees by the great emergency of
our time. II tho present world sit
ration does not set Christians 20
PRAYING what conceivable conditions
crn 10 so2 sense Of our divine
allies Is our gTeztes- need Simple
( rcliance upon God Is our Only 70
. course. "Not By might nor w roN-
er. but my NV Spirit, saith the Lord
NJ Fosts''
: ?cr-jtent as powerful comes this
nnessast from ancient Iesaere his.
tor. 90 Tho help that .ha hos-s Of
+ heaven extend to thr needs OF ar-h
our hearts, a-e fairly rcb5rs some
lose God ont of our world TIE
hirg anc iHc-mprrhe1slll ole CON
diticrs ab.odd which arc breaking
OF. rcarts. are fairly -o,liur some
souls q their faith In Cod Yet we
cannot forget hat now. ever ia
the asst. Gods stra'egt is vaster
than earth's H.a su-p0ses arc ,l-g-
or than our perceptions Wat
do now thou krovest not. but thou
shalt know hereafter
4 large world " love. ~ brother.
rood. % A new social order vill
surely emerge from The earth'E
present social chaos Myriad Of
disciples OF the Cross in the land
we call holy believe that Christian
ity is being extermirated for the
hosts OF unbelief seem lnyincible
and they have already slain approx
imately half a million Christian
women and children Surely there
is some inconceivably great purpose
Of God to be worked out. II this is
the cost OF H. Let us pray for open
eyes and remember the heavenly
hosts
t"Thrice blest II he 10 whom Is given
The instinct which can tell,
That God IL on the field,
\ When He In most invisible"