The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-12-19
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Especially Prepared For Readers Of
The Republican.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER %.

There is born to you this day in the
city of David Saviour, which is Christ
the Lord. Luke 2:11.
U. S. WRIGHT.
The MANS DAY.
1.-The birth of Jesus is the sunrise of
the Bible" So Henry Van Dixie char
acterizes it but it Is more than that, it
is the sunrise of the world 1t was the
beginning of one of Gods days. After
the blacklist night the earth has known
we are again at the dawn. But for
near two thousand years God worked
bringing to pass some things that are
necessary as the foundation upon which
the work of this newer dav may rest.
It's beginning was in that Bethlehem's
borrowed manger that Graded a baby's
cry and mans possibility. He was
human child with all the weakness and
need of the humblest child that was
ever born for He was brother to the
race. He grew to be man-helper of
other men whether it be the child laugh
ing at a happy world, the woman weep
ing over her broken treasure or the
man with face drawn by the crafty
hand of pain; he was brother to them
all. Giving that last uttermost sacri-
fee that man might have the best of
life and strangling death that he might
hope He left him in the very morning
of that long day. Men puzzled to ex-
plain Him. They lost the man of Him
and wandered in maze in which the
human heart could not rest without
comradeship in the unseen so crowned
Mary and canonized men to hear their
prayers. Clouds covered their sky for
they had dmmed the sun. Storm winds
flung the clouds apart. Wycklffe and
Huss, Luther and Calvin. Wesley and
Carey caught sight of bits of blue thru
the scud. The Man of Nazareth ap-
peared and all men took on new worth
for they were His kinsmen. Spade and
pen and brush grew busy with the de-
tails of His human life. Hands grew
busy in translating their findings into
face and form of living men and to
serve them was seen as the highest,
hottest gift to Him. Even the black
ness of the night that denied the worth
and the right of the Individual could not
hide the colors upon the clouds for hu-
mainly has come to its own with the
human Christ whose manifestation has
been the great glory of the day that
done.
THE TOILER's DAY.
Shepherds were present in the grey
dawn. Sons of toll, representative folk
who were the first to climb from savag-
cry up work ladder that has led to our
modern complex OF industry. They we're
the heralds of the dinner pail army
Trail-blazers for the sweaty finlshers of
God S world they heard the music that
sang their emancipation from the reign
of force and fear and ran with eager
steps to greet the Graded fulfiller of |
the song. No wonder they told it |
abroad! No wonder they were filled
with praise! For the only labor the
world knew was that forced from the |
slave. But as Gods clock chimed the |
century hours change came over the
earth. Serts appeared, then wage
earners under manifold restrictions
took their place. Having attained a
legal status he must share in the max
ing of the laws and he began to show
his face at the ballot box and in houses
of Parliament. Given worth by the |
man Jesus he began to demand the !
right to exercise that worth and de- |
mocracy sped swiftly toward the night |
that threatened to Danish its day but |
under the darkness these sons of the |
shepherds kept their lamps alight and |
with their burning hands fed them into |
such blaze that the night has gone.
And the toiler's voice is heard today by
the listening world.
THE ANGELS DAY.
Dawn began in song. Heaven broke |
thru into the plains of earth and men |
heard a new music that promised peace
among men thinking good even in a |
Redeemed world. No wonder they has |
tened to see this thing which is now
come to pass and ran into Bethlehem. |
The sky had spoken, men could but |
heed. Angels with swift wing blew |
sumber from their eyes, they must |
hear. Never had the world known such |
an event before nor has it since so it |
talked for nine days and turned again
to its wonted work. Only Mary kept |
these things in her heart. The unusual |
had created wonder but nothing more.
God was distant and occasionally some !
angelic or demonic messenger came in
to mems lives and passed out again for
Heaven had no door thru the usual. |
And so the da7 passed. More and more
the phenomena of the universe were ex-
plained and the pestilence, the earth
quake, the shlpwreck, the meteor ceas-
ed to bear any message. Angels no
longer sing so that men may hear. They