Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-28

You've right to your deep. high
look, my lad.
You have met God in the ways,
And no man looks into His face
But he feels it all his days.
You've right to your deep, high
look, my lad,
And we thank Him for his grace"
Introducing Man to God
Many a soldier has thus met God
for the first time on the battlefield
which is the most important thing
in heaven or earth. 1t is so impor-
tant that it brought Christ to this
world. AS we look back over six
months of study in the life of Jesus,
we perceive how the central facts is
that the Master was continually tryA
ing to introduce men to the Father
in heaven. He wanted men to know
God. Their ideas were twisted and
small and unworthy. They had been
conventionalized to the point of os-
sification. What the Jews believed
was more about a theological and
ecclesiastical system than about
living, loving God. All vitalities are
in danger thus of losing their reality
and becoming a form. So Jesus, with
a simplicity that does not at all re-
semble the elaborate structure that
we have erected in his name, came
to show us what God is really like,
and what he would have us do.
Anybody who can bring God down
out of a misty and mysterious heav-
en-. and make him personal and
present, is continuing the work of
Christ. Anything that accomplishes
this end is worth while, even though
it be a world conflagration. Trivial
scepticism and cynical agnosticism
and blatant infidelity were early VIC
Tins of the present conflict. We
know that there is a God, whose
thoughts are not our thoughts and
whose ways are not our ways, and
who acts on a stupendous scale for
the fulfilment of vast designs, all
meant to bring man into closer ac-
cord with his Heavenly Father. The
Jesus program is being fulfilled
in strange ways in our time. With
new dignity and sacredness, nations
are finding themselves in accord. as
tools in the hand of the Workman,
with these divine purposes. By the
red glare of battle we are seeing
God anew.
The Basis of the New Order
Only three men have emerged
from this war, on the allied side, as
dominating figures and they were
dlTedQy SuCn Dy virtue OF lnelT pO-
sition - President Wilson, Lloyd
George and Premier Clemenceau. In
the quiet talks which men have
about the war. saying the things
which are never printed, one some
times hears this point stressed,
that the war has not produced any
great leaders from among the un-
known, but has, instead, been a
great revelation of the capacity and
character of the common man and
woman. Now this is not so wonder
full as it may seem. Since this war
means the Inauguration of a new
world order, we may properly look
for analogous principles in the es-
tablishment of his kingdom by Jes-
us. Even a cursory glimpse of his
methods shows that he depended
upon the obscure and commonplace
people for the carrying out of his
plans. He built his kingdom upon
the average man.
Kaiser William made the mistake
of thinking the ancient method of
world dominion, which the heather
world has always practiced, was
still workable-the rise of an auto
crat and conqueror. Even in more
civilized quarters there are those
who seek still for the advent of a