The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-08-08
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 18th.
Christian. Helpfulness. Luke 1O:25-37;
Gal. 6:1-10.
Bear We one another's burdens, and so
fulfill the law of Christ. Gal. 6:2.
U. S. WRIGHT.
The TEST.
The new Browning gun that is the
standard automatic fre-arm IN our
armies fired 80, 900 rounds without mis-
hap and was then treated with sand
blast more severe than any exploding
shell will ever give it and was ordered
to fire hundred shots. Clogged and
fouled it still pumped on where every
other gun failed to act. The criticism
that we had bought a blueprint in
stead of gun" was shot to pieces on
the proving ground. Jesus is just as
careful about life as we have been about
guns. Specifications are never enough
with him. Church attendance is not
His final requirement. How does your
religion work under the racking tests
of the street is far more concern with
Him than its behavior under the sooth-
ing solaces of song and sermon. In
this neyer-to-be-lost picture given in
response to an inquiry about specifica-
tons there appear two men who have
just been worshipping with all the
pageantry and passion of the represen-
tative ritual of the Jew, men who had
shared in its deepest aspects and caught
its hottest import to whom outside the
Temple came the test of the worth of
their worship. Blood and foulness and
risk and inconvenience were flung in
their faces along with human need and
their religion ceased firing under it.
There is chill significance in the phrase
that they were going down." Then
another character appears and there is
no record that he had been at church at
all. The implication is that he had an
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and the deposit from it was part of his
life which functioned perfectly under
the test in which the others failed. His
sympathy was aroused, his skill en-
listed, his fear that the robbers might
return mastered, his time given, his
money shared and the blood that stain
ed his garments marked him for all
time as member of the Red Cross.
Ministry is the distinguishing khaki of
the Kingdom.
The LAW.
Jesus was impatient of rules but law
was his life. He found in it the bridge over
which one might walk into all worlds.
What is the biggest thing?" Having
love as the law of your life," was the
reply of Jesus. Bear we one another's
burdens, and so fulfil the law of
Christ" is Paul's word of interpreta
ton of the Lord he loved He saw the
whole life swayed by obedience to the
law of sacrifcial service that poured
itself out upon worth and unworth alike.
That obedience carried Him to the,cross
and crowned it with glory. For the
law of mans life is the passion that
controls its action and its ideals. Is is
money? Is 1t position? Is 1t social
leadership? Is it lust? Is is power? Is
it pleasure? Is it work? Is it service?
Is it goodwill? Is it Christ? For
whatever is the object of our supreme
desire that is the law that determines
all our life. Christ was mastered by
love land unless it serves we must give
1t another name) so He gave His best
to every one He touched. The Samari-
tan was in the same glorious company
with Paul and the rest. Notice that
the law lifted the load and shared its
weight but the clear thinking Apostle
IN the fifth verse explains very clearly
that each man must carry his own
equipment, requirement, that which
his life was meant to carry, that he is
not expected to ask another to lug his
rifle on the march. The law of service
has no room for slackers.
THE NEED.
There has never been a soul that did
not need lift sometime. Our difficulty
is in the seeing not in the fact. Doesn't
each OF US recall the times without num-
Der when we were helped IN our need
by others? We have continually been
the receiver of neighborly deeds. What
robbed and wounded lie along the
worlds highway today! Are we passing
them by because the law of our lite has
dimmed our seeing as it did the Priests
and Levite's? More than ever before
are eyes open and hands ready to follow
in service and the nation is responding
to the appeal. Lieut.. Dawson tells of
visiting home modelled after a Flor.
entine palace during his convalescence
and he was the the only person to re-
ceive either sugar or butter. Its all
right for you" he was told: you're
soldier; but if we eat butter and sugar
some of the Allies who really need them
will go short The first endowed hos