The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-06-09

world. There would be a new reign
OF justice, Of Righteousness, of fidel-
ity, Of peace. Childhood shold be pro-
tected and its spirit would be that Of
the new order. Such would be the
effect that even animals would cease
TO snarl and nothing that harmed
would remain. Yet the new world
would have been a Jewish world and
there was little idea OF any such or
dering OF earth that would allow any
other peace save that of Jewish au-
thority. Not many even of the high
est souled saw a sufficient servantc
est soul saw suffering servant as the
ideal race-ruler. 1t is the everlasting
glory of Isaiah that he was one who
did. The conquering Jew was as far
as the majority went or cared to CO.
The ordinary idea differed not one
whit from that of Assyria except in
name and in the sense of religious
mission. They were commissioned to
carry Jehovah to the throne Of the
world. Today we have much of the
same old world. 1t is marked by the
same blackened trails and the same
ideas Of world or race supremacy that
were known then. 1t is an unchr;s-
tian world. Yet it has its Isaiahs also,
and they are far more numerous than
ever in the past and they are urging
with something of the old eloQuence
that the new order be established rot
narrower than the viii OF Christ.
THE METHODS APPLIED.
Yet are we in new world? We are
feeling the relationships that exist in
all directions. We have learned that no
nation liveth unto itself and that to
allow wrong ileas anywhere is to i'm
peril all. We hold many notions that
will not bring the result desired.
There has leaped out from the strug-
gle & sense of nationality that is ev-
erywhere felt. We passed through the
throes of America First and discarded
Europe and all outside. Egypt is re-
ported in revolt, india is filled with
unrest, a throng Of petty states clanor
about boundaries and there is no re-
lief in sight in reinforced nationality
A selfish nation is worse than a selfish
person because it has more power.
Just now there is still found those who
believe IN the increase of arm ament as
a remedy exploded as such a theory
ought to be after Germany's disas-
trCUs adherence to j.. England, ia
raI and ourselves are in the greatest
naval race the world has known and
all are crying for peace as the out
come. A superstate Dies not seem to
function very favorably and its au-
thority would be dependent upon the
were received by the world. The
,l;G.o,,I+r. II,
it has been the old idea of the jew
instead Of the life Of the Christ that
has been sought for Germany would
have a Germanized world, Great Bri-
tain would have an Anglo Saxon world
and America would have a United
States Of the world The difference is
in name, for it was a Jewish world Of
which the Hebrew dreamed. And so
long as this persists there can came
no Christian word. Fine phrases viii
not work VIXEN the Jaranese comes
to California to live, the colored man
moves next door or the Chinaman asks
Tor equality. We do not want Christs
world and that is the root Of all the
difficulty and the source of our frantic
endeavor to find some other way than
His, no matter what the cost may be.
WHAT PROGRESS2
Can we 'scoYer the worlds drift?
IS It toward the dream of Christ or
away from it? Shailer Matthews told
the Harvard students: There a.e
many forces at work in human history
but only one tendency; and that is
spiritual" That clear thinking au-
thor of the Jesus of History writes.
The Lamb of God taketh away the
sin Of the world" has historically
been justified. A society, more and
more penetrated by the intelligence of
Jesus, could not endure to have slav-
cry continue; the atrocious use of wo-
men went; the killing of children went
and many other like things have gone,
and the rest will go" Here are two
world Christians from either side the
ocean coming to the same conclusion
Of a drift toward better things. And
there has never been such absolute
disapproVal Of war as at present. Mars
IS still god to be reckoned with
There are still crowds about the tenn
pie but he is no longer worshipped by
any, and where worship ceases crowds
speedily cease and the doors close.
Such is the direction of the present as
all the world seeks a better method
of attempting to settle its differences.
And there has never been time when
the church was so steadily settling
itself to its great task Of obeying
Jesus and making Him Lord of the life
Of this world. So it has prayed open
the doors to every land, it has learned
the speech cf the people, it has print
ed its bible in every tongue, it has
taught The niultitUdes to read, it has
planted its hospitals of healing beside
every great highway and has called
cut response in personality that
has often given its blood for the
cross. And it has opened its purse as
never before and poured its gold at
His feet while It beckons to its viri!e
youth and calls them to the fields
white unto the harvest. The adventur-
Gus spirit Of the Apostolic age that
venture upon Christ's resources
and took its world is again in the
of the church and the passion
for service is being Weakened in new
hearts that see again from some high
hour Christ's vision of His world.
Certainly His idea of the Kingdom is
becoming the central idea and as it is
furthered the nations of the world will
haocp,o HE