The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-13
MOVEMENT WORLD
WIDE IN INCEPTION
Christ Was Master World
Democrat, Says DR..
Bennett
By DIR. EDWARD BENNETT.

This movement is nationwide in it's
inception and worldwide in it's cir
cumference.
If the world is to be made safe for
democracy, it must be made safe by
democracy.
is Jesus Christ. 1t was because of the
principles He announced on that plat
form that His people killed Him.
The soul of this movement is essen
TALLY missionary and that not in any
restricted but the broadcast sense. The
portals of the kingdom heralded are
hinged on two pillars:
/. God our Father.
2. Man our Brother. The universal
ity of the one necessarily carries that
Of the other. Think of the divine hu-
man genius that conceived what We
know as The Lords Prayer"
During the war. the comprehensive
appeal of that marvellous instrument of
the Kingdom, struck me one day like
flash of lightning shining round the
world: Our Father No limitation
to that our" as is witnessed in the
fact which l saw that day for the first
time, viz, that there is no man on
the face of the earth, whatever his ma
ton or creed. who could not make ev-
cry petition in that ideal prayer his
fact, saw all the nationalities Of men,
so various in color. type and creed,
frenzied to kill and MAIN In northern
France. And I heard great voice so
authoritative as to compel obedience
call like a tocsin Cease firing. Five
minutes for prayers. Kneel" And
they knelt where they faced, those
teeming thousands. Then again. The
blue sky as on curtain was screened
in every language spoken on that field
and simultaneously as they raised their
eyes and read the terms it put into
their mouths, not a son of man among
them all but cried out That is my
God"
This Of now an even broader and
much wider extended battlefield, and
1 sound this as keynote OF the ma
ton wide campaign now in progress,
the "Our Father" for ever man. not as
a climax but to begin with.
sid the first and master world
DEMOCRAT was Jeuss. not only did He
announce God the Father of every soul,
with its corollary men brothers all, but
the manifesto Of His basal principles
He presented pictorially In his Iavor-
lite vehicle, the parable.
In a nutshell, the parable OF the one
lost sheen told it all: One sheep tnat
strayed. The 50 left corraiieo Wnhst tno
shepherd threaded the desert Tor tnAt one.
shallow cavaliers have raised maine
natical question Of proportion upon tnat-
Mathematics and Jesus Christ nave no
final terms in common. That fiock was
hundred ones There is the point:
Each face hears familiar; each several
bleat voice. Not one of the hundred
but was the object Of the same dover
of concern. That is the story The fiock
was not herd to the shepherd. but
hundred ones.
That is the note Of this campaign The
parable of the lost sheep is the corner
stone of Christian democracy.
All our theories for world amelioration
are at their best luminous haze until they
converge and are solidified in person.
atty. Jesus the Christ. In Him God
becomes universal and individual, and
only as He is both can He be either.
He was the one universaiist who ever
lived who delighted in the individual.
And the aim of this campaign is to
arouse the individual for the individual
wherever and however We can get at him
and the coin of this kingdom of the ideal
democracy is current the world over. And
the sinners dollar will purchase a. much
as the saints