Pueblo chieftain., 1921-07-16
When A Man Goes Straight
The International Sunday School Les
son for July IL is 1.-THE Conversion
of SauI."-Arts O:1-1D.

ID W LILLIAN tslslsis
Turn loose a man! Better than
all your schemes and organizations
is one Eelf-starting, eight-cylindered
man in the midst of things. We are
trying to legislate and organize hui
manity into the Better Day; whereas
what we really need to lead us there
is personalities, with open eyes and
flaming hearts, passionately devoted
to Gods will"
Such was one mans RESPONSE to
an appeal to Join certain of the in
Vulnerable movements" that seem
to he suffocating the good impulses
OF our time. II is more man that
the world needs. rather than more
| men. one converted Saul was worth
whole sanhedrin of ordinary &C.
| clesiastics.
RICH now. in our own troubled
world. the call is loud for grea.
| leadership. Noble as has been the
feeding OF hungary Europe and Ar
menia and China. | venture To sug-
gest that a far greater service of the
race at the present time would be
such complete conversation to the
spirit and program OF Jesus OF few
of the worlds foremost statesmen as
transformed the famous Jewish zealot
on the Damascus highway. at noon OF
historic day.
II Statesmen should Get Religions!
1t would be indiscreet to mention
names: but each of us can check off
on the fingers OF one hand the world
figures who. II they were suddenly to
experience the same sort of CONVEX
sion overwhelmed the Tarsus
scholar, aristocras and ecclesiastical
leader. would quickly turn the tide
Of human affairs. Suppose these men
whose names are almost daily In the
newspapers were to forego all par
ttsan and selfish and sordid and ma
tionalistic ambitions, and become
glowing apostles OF the ideals OF
Jesus: what an effect the act would
have upon human historyl
Convicted men in high places
would transform the world. Ten
personalities-five personalties-re-
solved to do, at all costs. only what
would please Christ. would make
such questions as disarmament. world
cooperation and universal peace
merely incidental. because inevitable.
Some of us who give our days and
nights TO consideration OF world Of
fairs are old -fashioned enough to be-
lieve that the one way out of the
existing mess and middle and misery
Of mankind is by some startling con-
versions to the Gospel and Spirit and
Saviourhood Of Jesus Christ
'Impracttcal2" Not bit Of It,
The most practical thing that hap
pened in the whole Roman Empire
for many n long day was the sensa-
tional change Of mind and heart that
came to the bigoted, narrow, intoler-
ant, Christian prosecuting Pharisee.
saul of THrsus, when he was struck
blind on the road to Damascus, that
he might see the Light There was
more OF history bound up In that one
In no IRTFnaE aud dpnfhg
Of dozen caesars; or in the move
ments aud fightings of all the armies
of Rome.
Education by Conversion
No mathematical formula can mea-
sure tho consequences OF great
souls becoming acquainted with
Christ.
Any large look at history reveals
that the really great things have
come to pass by the Subway. Car
lyle's Heroes and Hero-W Worship"
truth that God changes events by
changing men. If we knew enough
to do so. we should build our great
monuments upon the spots where
new ideas and now purposes came to
individual souls. When n guide first
took me over Damascus he naturally
showed me the traditional SPOT in the
road where saul was converted; no
man knows the true site: but its
memorial is contentious with Chris
tianity.
Tens Of thousands Of graduates Of
higher schools of learning have gone
out into the world" during the past
month. confident that their education
has equipped them for success. Most
Of them never heard or needed the
sound psychological principle which
we may call "education by CONVEX
sion" They need to know that a