The evening world., 1921-02-15
/ Poets of the Bible
by Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
Copyright. 1921. ~ The Press Publishing Co.
/ THE New York Eyening WOld).
NO. e-MIcAH.

II were called upon to say when
! book Of the Bible was my favorite, IaE
and away above all the others,
would be obliged to answer MICAH
! There are books in the Bible that
have more poetic fire, that show
wider and deeper philosophy and that
have, for various reasons, attracted q
more universal interest among the M
tellectual upper Tendom," as well as
among the masses Of the people, but
for the rare combination Of the most
solid common sense and the loftiest
spirit Of the moral sublime, there IS
nothing anywhere that can take tho
place Of Micah"
! Micah is ranked among the minor
| prophets, one of the small fry" -
the vernacular has It; but when it
comes to the poetry of the very
highest spiritual truth, the expression
OF the Hottest idealism of the greatest
souls Of all the ages Micah deserves
TO stand in the front rank of those
/ who, in thoughts that breathe and
words that burn have from the be-
( ginning of time proclaimed the gospel
| Of the true, the beautiful and thu
good.
Listenl Hear, We peoples, all OF
you; hearken, o land, and all that
dwell therein!'
! A message is coming for everybody,
and let no one refuse to listen.
And here is the message; "ln tho
! latter days it shall come to pass that
| the Mountain of the Lords House
| shall be established in the top Of tho
mountains, and il shalls be exalted
above the hills, and peoples shall fiow
unto it. g And He shall judge
between many peoples, and shall re-
prove strong nations affair off; and
| they shall beat their swords into
| ploughshares, and their spears into
| pruning forks nations shall not lit
up sword against nation; neither shall
they learn war any more. But they
| shall sit every man under his vino
/ and under his fig tree; and none shall
make them afraid, for tho mouth OF
| the Lord of hosts hath spoken H."
! The Mountain of the Lords House
J has become the centre of the world
1t gives law to every people, distril r
uting justice to all, near and afur
| off, and everywhere there is peace
and happiness.
Here we have the sublime ant .Jipf,
ton Of the League Of Nations anu
| the great fight that Is now beiu 6
made for universal disarmament
/ Il was twenty-siX centuries us
| that Micah saw this dcvOutly 10 h1
4 wished for contamination, and i- is
not here yet; out II is coming. &, e
the mouth of the Lord Of Hosts hatl
| spoken IL.
| But Micah saw something more.
/ He saw the millions going up to tho
Mountain Of the Lords House, ana
/ this was the question they asked:
"Wherewithal shall I come before
! Jehovah, and bow myself before the
! Most High? Shall I come before htul
| with burnt offerings, with calves Of
a year old? VIII Jehovah be pleased
with thousands Of rams, with ten
thousands OF rivers OF oil? Shall 1
give my first born for my tranSgres-
sion, the fruit of my body for tho
sin of my soulT'
And then comes the answer. which
should be written over the doorway
of every home: He hath shown thee,
o man. what is good. And what
doth Jehovah require of thee, but to
| do justice, to love mercy, and to
walk humbly with thy God"