The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-21
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Especially Prepared For Readers Of
The Republican.
SUNDAY, AUGUST oath.

SUNDAY, AUGUST Z4th.
Social Responsibility, lisa. 58:6-12;
James 2:14-16.
AS we have opportunity. let US work
that which is good toward all men. Gal
$40.
U. S. WRIGHT.
LIFE ON THE FARM
Under the figure of the farm we have
passed into the heart of the home and
its life and out to the far corners of the
estate where work must be done as
surely as in the door-yard. But there
are other factors in the securing of re-
suits than fields and houses and one is
the spirit in which workers attempt
their tasks. Skilled leadership is es-
sential but those who also toll under
direction must catch the sense of COM
radeship in the common service. Much
labor is wrought by agencies not usually
catalogged as belonging to the ranks of
religion. Politics have come to have
bad odor yet government is one of
Gods orders and the League of Ma
lions attempts to extend turnout the
world something of that for which
| Christ died. Science has often been
in antagonism to the church and the
reverse is also true but as Bishop tow-
Ter put it, Science is the farmland
who is clearing stumps from fields in
which God shall reap the harvest" The
railroads are purely secular agencies
and mighty cantankerous at times but
they serve the King in the making pos
sibe the Kingdom in knitting together
scattered districts and people into a
common life. To many there appears
to be yellow Peril" On the other
side the sea there is with far more rea-
son white PERIL that has stopped
at nothing in gaining its ends and has
violated every right for the sake of
territory or concessions. Is it too much
to say that the East has as much right
to develop along lines that will enable
it to put into the worlds pool its best
as has the West? The negro hated by
many and done to death on the streets
of our Capital has worthy elements not
in the make up of the white man that
must be contributed to our newer civil
lization if it is to be all that God dream
ed. Race antagonism cannot be toler-
ated as a foundation upon which to
build the Kingdom or a civilization
worthy the day in which we are. We
are all workers for the King and must
llye together upon the face of His earth
Only as the spirit of cooperation, of
recognized worth that entities to re-
spect, of willingness to put our best at
the service of the best of others even
the differences exists will we who are
working upon Gods farm bring it to
the place of worthy harvest. The boy
who carries water has rights and duties
as well as the man on the binder or the
cook in the kitchen.
THE PLANTING OF THE FARM.
Isaiah is vastly concerned with the
very thing. People with differing needs
and powers are living together and
some are exploiting others. And having
done this are quite willing to dole a bi:
of charity to the needy in the name of
religion and believe themselves beloved
of Heaven because of it. They tasted
with long faces and ostentacious ritual
expecting the form to impart life or to
be recognized as such. The Prophet
grew indignant. There must be an
equal chance for all is his real plea.
Sanity looks and a self placed halo
would not atone for wickedness and op-
preston; loose the bonds and break the
yokes, remove poverty and love other
men. Such was the prescription of the
Prophet. Power is responsibility. To
plant anything else into the relations of
people than the fullest right to free de-
velopment is to wreck the farm. To be
able to do others is not it's principal but
to do for others. Oppression, untruth,
exploitation are fatal seeds anywhere
in the closely related world of today.
Isaiah would probably flame as strongly
now as then for the same things exist
but there is this difference; then his
was the only voice lifted in protest
while today there is so great a chorus
that nations gave blood for the sake of
some of his ideals.
THE SPIRIT OF THE FARM
James draws the picture of the spirit
that must exist upon every part of the .
farm. Dickens somewhere tells of
man who was in debt and leaving the
place where he had hyed Coming to
creditor he explained the situation and
declared that he had no intention of GO
ing away without full settlement and
presented an U as full liquidation
of his obligation. He walked out with
the Virtuous air of one who had filled
every duty to his fellowman His sense
of realities was utterly distorted so that
words were as good as deeds. James