The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-05-12

If l cannot carry forests on my
back,
Neither can you crack a nut"
THE LAW OF UNITY.
There are many members, each
having its own place to fill and with
out which there is incompleteness and
disharmony, but there is only one
body. There is no such thing as an
independent organ. The brain may
command the muscles, but is abSo-
lutely dependent upon them for sup
plies and for getting things done The
heart beats regularly, but let the
stomach refuse food and speedily the
whole circulatory system breaks down.
There is but one body, however many
and varied may be the members of it.
Gradually the church is learning this
truth. There is no growth but only
a diseased condition possible where
one member builds itself up at the
expense OF another. For the hand to
rob the arm is to speedily find itself
a monstrosity. Yet we have far to go
before the complete recognition of this
fact will appear. Little towns are
over-churched so that vast territories
are without the gospel in the presence
of denominations seeking to build
themselves instead of caring for the
Kingdom. Not the place of greatest
need, but the point Of greatest re-
turns IS the determining thing in the
locating Of many a church. How else
can we account for the city condition
that makes the place of densest popu-
lation the place of fewast churches?
in politics it is the same policy, for
President Harding has had his sever
est trial in the hordes OF office-seek-
ers who want the job rather than the
work. It is not because ore man is
better fitted than another for the posi-
tlon, but that the outs wants to be the
ms. In the worE-a-day world the
same cut-thrOat policy has been the
rule and one successful venture brings
o score Of competitors. each seeking
the economic life of the rest. Not
service, but profit, is the controlling
thing. 1t is just this that has pro-
Voked the bitter attacks upon the
whole capitalistic system, and the de-
termination on the part of many that
1t shall give way to another that en-
deaVors to build uD the body instead
on one member of it, or one class
within 1t. In international life it is
the same "me first" policy that makes
peace merely truce between wars
instead OF means of promoting good
VIII and mutual prosperity. If the
law of unity were applied to all life,
then wars would cease. strikes would
pc done away, class rule would become
impossible.
THE LAW OF PROGRESS.
In that scene beside the lake Jesus
revealed the line of advance along
which the society of the world must
move. What a hungry throng it wasl
What a pitifully inadequate supply
was there! What an impossible task
for twelve men! But the boy gave his
lunch, the Disciples gave their
strength, the crowd gave its coopera-
ton, Jesus gave His power and out of
the pooling there came abundance to
meet the needs of all. This was one
of the things done in the great war
where the Allied line was pushed for
ward by the efforts and resources of
all alike regardless of numbers or
wealth. Until that unity was secured
there was the continuous defeat that
imperiled the world. And behind the
lines every hand found its possible
contribution and gave it eagerly from
the toiler in the shipyard, the dollar
a-year brain of some great industrial