Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-26

spirit into land and day threatened
with nervelessness. Only this morn.
( ing a friend who has Just ended :
SLOW careful and painstaking ques
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
pack again, and from Mexico to the
canadian border gave it to me a.
/ ms sober verdict that most of the
/ people in America are not greatly in.
/ terested in the war, or in the suprem,
moral issues involved in it. Theil
chlef concern is that the United
/ states should be kept out of the war
ana the West, he added, is a bit re.
senful that it has not shared in the
war profits which have been so richIS
! harvested by the east. OF deep pas.
sion over anything connected with
the war the staying of the Ar.
menlans. Tor instance this mar
found none.
In social and political and com.
mercial life we confess to finding a
cynical Indifference to moral consid-
eratons. The political corruptionist
Is a club-fellow and personal friend
OF the eminent churchman, and sure
OF his vote. The notorious roue finds
rev men refusing his hand. In many
social circles 1t is no impediment to
have had checkered career of sean
dal and divorce. The financial crook
and the industrial oppressor lose
none of their luster as "leading citi-
zens.' Politics of a disreputable kind
may ensconce itself even in the high
est places of the church, but nobody
Mlnds enough TO attack it openly.
Wanted: The Man With n Scourgo
All of which implies that there is
need to-day for visit of the Spirit
OF the Christ with whip of cords
our youth should be taught the
Christlikeness of righteous indigna-
ton: Nobody is following i'm the train
OF the Strong Son of God who is not
able and quick to express abhorrence
OIL evil = even concrete evil that
would menace His own welfare. Gods
cause calls for good haters. to whom
SIN ana injustice and oppression are
oulous. II is said of a certain Naw
England Christian that when a motor
lous apostle of free love appeared az
nus Goof one day he cried out, BE
gone! abhor you. abhor vou,"
No"a-ays we would call that shock
rae, ,ne PAU lorm' even as all the cor
rect Jews OF our Lords day stood
aghast and reproving at His outburst
OF Indignation against the ten1nIe
grattefs, when He drove them from
the sacred courts.
Not long ago a printed criticism of
Phlladelphia's men of the old fami-
Iies ana select social circles was made
StiNN I llidl tneS possess the
most charming manners i'm America
ana count for least in the life OF
thelr community. They have polish
out not punch. Their famous urban
lty is not disturbed by the fact that
they live in city and State notorious
Tor IT'S Shameless political corruption
ana debauchery. Something of the
same sort of malformation of the
moral motors afflicts multitude oi
other persons, irrespective of geo.
graphical lines. Breaches of form
oHend them more deeply than breecb.
es of Gods law.
we talk about the gentleness OF
Jesus' ana we pass over the fact that
ne was Gods great Champion of
Flight, who battled for truth clear mn
10 the crest of Calvary. He was ner.
rect gentleman and showed nv I5is
dauntless daring amid the ira fficIsers
III the temple that He possessed ms
courage which is a first nuaIit,, -,
every gentleman.
ln-this spectacle of the hIozing
eyed Jesus. driving before Him The
sIcriieglous merchants like frighten-
ed sheep, there is no warrant for fbe
intantile practice of getting mad"
over trlfles that displease us "Get.
uhg MAD and righteous Indignation
are are very distant relatives indeed. A
CHRISTIAN and gentleman is not ex.
pected to lose his temper: he keeps
IL for use on proper occasions.
An Echo of Oberammergau
seven years ago l saw the won