The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-09-12


one nation may peril the peace of all.
Jesus taught democracy and the world
cannot endure half democratic, halt
autocratic; His teachings must rule
the world, or be ruled out of the
world. Goodwill must become the
world attitude or man will turn his face
toward the cave condition from which
he emerged. He who refuses to be a
world man these days is more unchris-
tian that the Mohammedan who said.
There are three things that hold hu-
mainly apart. They are caste, the
idea that where man is born there he
forever must stay; color, the idea that
a mans complexion may make it I'M.
possible for him ever to be my equal OF
my brothers; and creed, the idea that a
man must adopt my religious formula
or he can never by any possibility enter
my heaven" Only as we impregnate
the spirit of the world with the spirit
of Jesus can we hope that the world S
mastery of forces will be benefcent.
THE REMEDY.
Jesus had no question over the eff
fcacy of His gift to the world. The
light which He kindled would scatter
the darkness and each believer was to
be torch to aid in the illumination.
The salt of their lives was sufficient to
keep all the earth sweet. Is the re-
ligion of Jesus equal to the idea? DR..
Jefferson said to the Wesleyan students,
The world has had three historic
scourges: famine, pestilence and war.
Each has numbered its victims by the
tens of millions. Commerce has killed
famine. By her railroads and steam
ships she killed it. 1t lies like dead
snake by the side of the road along
which humanity has marched up to the
present day. Science killed pestilence
The black plague, the bubonic plague,
cholera, smallpox, yellow fever-all
have received their death blow. Science
did the work. These foes of mankind
lie bleeding and half dead beside the
road along which the world presses on
to higher day. Who will kill war?
Not commerce nor science, nor both of
them combined. Only religion can kill
war, for religion alone creates a new
heart. why not give Christianity a
trial. says Bernard Shaw. Il am no
more a Christian than Plate was, and
yet | see no way out of the worlds mis-
cry but the way which would have been
found by Christ's will if he had under
taken the work of a modern, practical
statesman" Can we imagine our
soldiers being needed in Mexico if we
had sowed the land with teachers as we
did the Philippines or Porto Rico? We
may either Christianize a people up or
shoot them up and the first is vastly
less expensive in every way. And 1t is
the way that has worked wherever it
has had even partial trial Jesus
made no mistake in prescribing it for
the worlds ills His claim of AL
authority" as a sufficient guarantee has
been found ample wherever it had any
real attempt at application.
THE METHOD.
Make disciples of all the nations, !"
was the Masters command. We have
been content to make disciples out of
all the nations but neither on a man by
man basis nor upon the Christly con-
quest of the national life have we even
attempted to carry out the plan of our
Lord The present war witnesses
against US in Its nationalistic expression
on both sides. Nations do not apply
the same standards to themselves that
we find enforced among the individuals
who make up each one. Had we under
taken the war against the organized
hosts of class domination in the same
FASH IN that we have as a church the
war would have been ended already in
a German peace. The miracle of the
ages 10 lHS ACCOMPLISHMENTS LDhI Is 10
the credit of Jesus with the forces we
have put at His command. Certainly
He has kept His word Go and | am
with you," for otherwise the result
would have been impossible. There is
another failure to be noted. We were
commanded to teach them after having
brought them to the place of confession
but His principles are still largely I'M
known among His professed followers.
| wonder if Jesus ever teels like calling
US ''slackers?"
THE FIELD.
Paul was called to another continent
by the voice of opportunity and the man
of his dream may have been Luke, the
Philippian Doctor. Nehemiah was
called by the report of need that some
one must meet. knowledge was the
first step with both of them and if
volunteers are to be secured today
information must be put into their
minds before any action will emerge.
Luke joined Paul at Troas, was pos
sibly made convert there and then