The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-23

He gave up the praise of angels for the persecution of men; left Gods glory for
 the cross and grave. He cared for the l sheep because the sheep were his own. 1 He helped us conquer, even though He died.
 | But even though He died, He lives. | Lives in heaven, yes, where He has | gone to be with God again? That is 1 the Christian faith. to which we bore 1 testimony on last Easter day. But that is not all of the Christian faith. He /, lives in human hearts that have learned the lessons He lived and dled | to teach He lives in human souls that | have learned the divine lesson of shep- ] herding. He lives yet in human lives l that are now consecrated to the task 1 of saving the sheep, no matter whose { they are, nor where they may find | pasture. Wherever you find man to 1 whom nothing is alien that makes for 1 human happiness, you find a shepherd who loves the sheep. He gives his time l for the correcting of evil conditions 1 that make industry safer, and life l cleaner, and men and women better, and little children happier He has l learned the lesson of the good shep- l herd and would leave his home and comfort and labor and suffer and die rather than that Gods flock should be QGSJTON6u. w n6TeN6r you llIu d IdllOil | that will forego profit and ease and safety and go to do battle with the wolves that seek to destroy the liber- | ties of other men, you find a glowing example of the truth that the Good Shepherd did not come to earth and save the flock and die in vain. In such | men and in such nations lies the hope of humanity. The life of the world to come is bound up in the work of the
 
 just so sure as that is true I verify believe that the life of this present l world is in the keeping of the good shepherds.-of today
 GALLO THE ROMAN
 ''In the eighteenth chapter of Acts there is story of ancient Corinth St. Paul hads lived there for year and a half when the Jews made insur- rection against him and brou<<G him | before Gallio. the Roman governor. 1 There were riots and fightings between | various factions. The religion of Christ was at stake And we are told so simply
 that "Gallio cared for none of these | things" Gallio had a good job. Gal
 lio was comfortable and well fed. If i he took sides he might find himself ! on the side of the loser. Gallio be- | lieved in letting well enough alone. Gallio was a neutral" Gallio was a
 hireling The sheep did not belong to i him.
 His type persists today In every pettifogging politician who dares not take a positive and fearless stand on great national issues when national 1 safety is at stake. Shall we have na- tional prohibition? On the day of trial l the modern Gallio is sick and cannot vote. He does not care about these things anyway. But what he does care for he says little about at the time, i and that is the votes of the boys back home. In times of national peril a great army is to be raised. Shall we cling to an obsolete volunteer system 1 just because 1t is labeled American ?' (and because. perhaps. some of the l boys back home do not want to fighD 1 or shall we profit by the lessons Of Europe and compel each citizen to 1 bear his share of the burden and face his share of the common peril? And Gallio hedges He tries to ride with the hounds and run with the hare He favors a compromise, half and half, so that no matter what his constit- uents think. he has reasonable hope of safety. After all, Gallio doesn't care. The important thing is that Gallio should keep his job. '"rhe hireling dodgeth the issue because he is a hire
 ling. and careth not for the sheep
 FAIR HOURS FOR WORKER 'We have the type in the world Of business Conscience demands fair hours and fair pay for the worker. Dividends demand long hours and short pay. And there is a struggle in the employers breast. while he hesi- tates between the thing he knows he ought to do. and the thing that seems expedient Expedency says it is cheap CT to pay death benefits than to make that mine safe. Conscience says. Your one husband and father" And the whole mine is not worth the life of hireling hides behind the excuse that other men "are doing the same" The hireling does not really care, because the husbands and fathers who may perish are not really his. He careth not for the sheep"
 we find the types in the church, in the nation; everywhere. because every one in all the world is one of these four things: helpless sheep, de- stroying wolf an indifferent hireling or shepherd.
 'Now all progress in the world has come through cooperation. Some have said that it comes through competition and yet competitors in any given field are continually and closely co-operat- ing in that they are constantly learn
 ing something from one another. The business world has at last learned this
 and we see on all sides councils and
 conventions where business competi-
 torc y,aat in order tn cO.Onarot ta roara