Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-29

ago. ana IN the whole world before
our eyes.
Joseph had to so into bondage in
order that his race might come into
their heritage of freedom. He was
carried out of Canaan to make it
possible that his fathers remoter
children should continue in Canaan.
lie became slave in order that
they, ultimately, might become free.
our sons have died in France in
/ order that never again will blacks in
African forests; HISTORIANS in far
= Kurdistan; Armenians in Turkey,
and Christians in the Balkans die
victims of tyranny and bigotry and
aNtocracy. We see something of
! the sweep of the new peace and
, safety that have come to earth
! through the sacrifice of all who have
suffered in the war. 1t is only in the
light of the worlds long tomorrow
! that we may be reconciled to the
worlds awful yesterday. Without
a grip upon the truth that, seen as
! God sees it, life is a whole unity
of good, such tragedies as the war
would be intolerable.
Still behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own"
The Lord is still ruler of his
world, even as in the days of Jo-
! seph. He holds our times in his
| hand. He may be leading by a
way we know not, but he is still
/ leading. One simple truth that was
visualized for me in a wonderful
airplane ride l had in France, early
this year, is that the heavenward
side of all clouds are beautiful be-
yond telling.
Remembering the Joscphs
Somewhere there is always Jo-
seph. Most of the world ignores
that fact, 1t is more interested in
the rich and powerful Jacobs-about
to die. By the time man has
spent his force and originality, and
become the mere possessor of q
fortune or a position, his neigh
bors dub him a leading citizen"
and elect him upon boards and COM
mittees and to public office; al
through really his days of leader
ship and initiative are done. We
forget that it has ever been the
young men who have created the
new nations, the new eras, the new
methods.
Now is the time to take thought
of Josephs, the saviors Of to-mor-
row. If ever there was a day for
looking we'll to our youth, protecting
it, inspiring it, and make sure that
it dreams the right dreams, this is
that day. A plastic world awaits
shaping hands. Feeble and nerve
less fingers, surviving from yester-
day, are trying to crowd it back in
to the old molds. In vain. Youth
will have its way with the eman-
cipated world; ours it is to see that
youths way is way of wisdom and
brotherliness and reverence. At the
present time, 1t is more worth while
10 teach a class of boys or girls the
clear and simple integrities which
God has stamped as eternal than
it is to sit on committees of "emi-
nent citizens" or to be director of
the largest bank on the continent.
Vital forces are human forces. What
counts most to-day for tomorrow
is boys and girls. If the recon-
.stIuction era does not witness a
worldwide stressing of the import
ance of child-training it will have
missed its greatest opportunity This
is the hour to concern ourselves with
springs.
1t is quite possible that some
body who reads these lines has in
his, or more likely her. keeping the
Joseph who will again save the
world. Nobody in that Southern
Christian home, a generation ago,
imagined that the boy, Thomas w.
Wilson, who was trained at a fam
lily altar, in a Sunday school and
church, and in a Christian school,
- leo. i
ideals of simple and sincere Anglo
Saxon Christian faith, would one day
become the whole worlds voice and
leader. Suppose there had been a
failure back in those forgotten be-
/ ginnings? Every parent, every teach
er, every editor, is divinely wise who
assumes that the impressionable
youth whom he is influencing, may
be the worlds Joseph tomorrow.
Recently. talked with friend
about his college. He recited a list
of its graduates who had grown rich
and become figures in the CONNER
cial and political world-and some
of them, admittedly, by methods
which the founders of the institu-
tion would never have Condoned.
! But among them al there is only
one man who has become a moral
force of magnitude, and he is such
because of his integrity in public
| life There has come forth no
great prophet or ideaiist. A few
! faddists, blind to the sublime spiri-
tual integrities, are the colleges
only contribution to public life on
/ the nonmaterial side. 1t has sent
forth no dreamers, no men or wo-
men of vision, to inspire their time.
| And this is the supreme arraign-
ment to be made of many American
! schools and homes. We teach our
sons and daughters how to, grow
prosperous and successful; but we
are not burdened in our spirits with
desire that they should be inter-
! prefers of God to their time, dream
ers and prophets. Out of the soul
agony of the war. will a race of men
and women spring whose supreme
/ quest is for God, and for human SER
I vice.
A Good" sBoy With Bad Brothers
| This Joseph, son of Jacob and his
| favorite wife Rachel, was a guile
less, coddled. self-centered young
ster. That he was not entirely spoiled
was a wonder; his parents openly
/ favored him above his older broth
ers. When there is favoritism in a
family trouble is certain to follow.
/ Jacob should have known better;
for his own mothers partially to
| him, above his brother Esau, had
caused most of his troubles. In
stead, he openly showed his special
love for his youngest son, adoring
him with a coat that distinguished
him from the others.
There was a reason; but no rea-
son is justification for favoritism in
family. The brothers were rough,