The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-07-15
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Especially Prepared for The Republi.
can by DIR. U. S. Wright.
SUNDAY. JULY 10.

Love your enemies, 90 goOQ TO them
that hate you. Luke 6:27.
THE KING.
Organization multiplies power. Per-
sonal weakness passes unnoticed be-
cause the structure is firm. The Que
bee bridge disaster came from some
bolts that had such slight play as to be
unnoticed by the most skillful workmen
but it was finally fatal and the entire
mass crashed into the stream. So did
Saul government He must have been
wonderful organizer for in the face
of Philistla's forces he was able to take
the crushed mass of people little better
than slaves and fuse into them spirit
and order and allegiance to new rule
and in spite of failing powers the ma
chine he had builded held steady. All
the struggling, seethlng elements in
the Republican party could not break
the party organization at Chicago and
it will be surprising if the White House
loses its grip at San Francisco. Not I'M
til organization met organization did
the boyle of the Liquor Power reveal its
hollowness. Saul was as potent as Pen
rose. The strong tribe of Judah could
be alienated, her favorite son, David,
driven into exile, the religious party ex-
posed to massacre, the greatest soldier
in his ranks deposed and the organiza-
ton still functioned. Saul was a per-
fectly wonderful giant of a politician
and Gods first choice was master
piece so far as ability went. Only there
came the wrong use for personal ends
of that splendid power and the whole
man shrank from that day forward
Democracy was being strangled under
his policy and any opposing opinion was
to be crushed instead of assimilated
The popular choice never got look-in
under the rule of the Old Guard at
Chicago nor was it any truor in Israel.
The power of the empire was prostitut-
ed to dethroning the popular will and
throning self interest. There is bit
of parasite that attaches itself to
caterpillar and gradually absorbs its
life until there is nothing but perfect
form filled with alien rootlets; such was
Saul. The King was there but the soul
of the King was persisted. Embittered,
vindictive, passionate, his word worth
less. his brain the abode of insane i'm
aginings only the robes of a king re-
manned.
THE OUTLAW.
Who makes him? Too often it is the
organization. Pleasure outlawed from
the church carries the boy and girl into
illicit relations. Then society sets
price upon their heads and hunts them
into the wilderness. Over-ridden rights
guaranteed by democracy foster radi-
calism and the redness of brain and
flag and street. The man hunt follows.
Race prejudice refuses to stay Judge
Lynch where recently the hour was ad-
vertised in local paper and the COVER
nor refused to interfere; where after
the brutal burning of the victim it was
discovered that he was entirely inno-
cent and discomfort begins to simmer in
the mind of the outlaw made intelli-
gent by our schools of democracy.
David was an outlaw and James had
price set upon His head. There are a
glorious company of outlaws who have
later come to the throne; protestants,
Puritans and host of others. Utterly
loyal to the high ideals of Israel David
was still an outlaw and was hunted
from hill to hollow like a beast. Car
ing tenderly for his parents he took
them to their ancestral home where
they could be secure. He became a
defense for all the border so that the
frontier was guarded better by his vigi-
lence than by the state. He welcomed
the surviving member of the priestly
village and pledged his life in his de-
tense. He shared all he had with every
outcast from the tossed out bits of hu-
msnity trampled by the organization
that little dreamed it was piling the
fagots for its own consuming.
THE SCHOOL BOY.
David had many tutors in nobleness.
Jesse must have been fine father even
tho he did forget the youngster with
the sheep. All the fineness of Saul in
his best days was lavished upon the apt
pupil of the court and the sharer of the
home life of the palace as onln- law.
Jonathan with his chiyalry and his
friendship must have had a wonderful
influence over his sensitive, poetic,
reyerent soul. and even in his exile he
came to him and strengthened his
hands IN God and wiped out all the Bit
terness that had probably been gather
ing nnder the attacks of the KING. An
other figure energies in Abigail. Pa
trolling the border David had protected
the property of Nabal and felt a per-
feet right to share in his prosperity
Filling a government function he should
haye something of a governments sup.
port so he asked for share in the
feast only to meet a churlish refusal
But Abigail met his wrath with fine
courtesy, appealed to his religious spir-
it and woke it into quickened life. 1t
is the teacher more than the school
room or the text that make the great
est impress upon the Scholar life and
in spite of the roughness of the sur
roundings and the crudeness of the
standards David was constantly having
the minoftry of high souls who appeal.
ed to his best self and it is not so
strange after all that in the hour of
testing this cultivating should have its
harvest. And the wedding bells in the
forest joined the fortunes of Caleb's
fighting clan and the veterans of Aes-
draelon to these of the future king.
THE STRUGGLER.
Saul paid David high compliment in
bringing out 5000 men to capture his
rudely equipped force. What a chal-
lenge it made to David's daring to see
the wide spread camp lying secure
within it's encircling ramparts and to
catch the flutter at its heart of the pen
nant upon Saul's spear. Could any man
get to that heart and live? With his
equally daring comrade he crept cauti-
ously down the slope, wormed thru the
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