The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-03-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1921.
THE IDEAL CHRISTIAN; OR THE
CHRISTIAN LIVING WITH
OTHERS.
Romans 1871, 2, 9-21.
As We would that men should do to
you, do We also to them likewise.
Luke 6:31.
U. S. Wright.
THE NEW COURSE.
What the Bible says and what the
Bible teaches, are vastly different
things. 1t everywhere accepts slavery
as condition of society and says
slavery, but it teaches freedom, lib
erty and brotherhood. The ideals of
the Gospels and of some denunciatory
Psalms are as wide apart as the poles,
so that partial truth must be related
to partial truth that Gods message
may be clear. For three months we
are to study the teachings of the Book
upon the vital things of life. Work,
wages, recreation, education, coopera-
ton, ideals for home, neighborhood,
country and world, are all topics that
touch our everyday affairs. Many
folk are surprised to find such things
a consideration of the Book, but it
would be a strange revealing of the
Fathers will if these were left out,
1t differs from the ordinary study by
books such as we have just finished in
Matthew, or by life like Paul's, but
to follow a topic through its pages is
to get a new understanding Of its
story that is fresH and instructive.
Teachers will find great help in The
Social Teachings of the Prophets and
Jesus by Charles P. Kent (Scribner's,
S1.50). Serving the Neighborhood, by
Ralph A. FELTON, and Mr.. Friend-O'-
Man, by Jay T. Stocking Council of
Women for Home Missions, '75c.), will
make helpful reading for the entire
class. The present lesson is from
Paul's letter to the Romans, which is
his full explanation of Gods way of
saving folks. Five chapters tell the
method; three give the power for the
practice of the plan; three explain the
relation of the Jew and grace; the re-
mainder show the result in the life
selfward, stateward, neighborward,
Northumberland, and concludes
with personal messages. 1t is from
the first chapter of this last section
that the lesson has been selected and
as fully as any in the Book gives
Pauls idea of the reaction which the
individual should give to the stimulus
of the Christian faith.
THE HIGH SOURCE.
In the great west vast tracts of
land lie bare and brown, but straight
across its dusty heart stretches belt
of green that trails off toward the
purpling hills. Far away on the
heights the reservoir built at great
expense and pains holds the limpid
waters from the snow crowned sum-
nit through all the swelter of the
summer. Down the channel along the
bitches flows the stream that clothes
the land with garments of green.
Whole regions respond and become
community of homes and minister to
the needs of the world. Something
of the same sort happens in the crea-
ton of Christian. 1t is the flowing
water of life that transforms the soul
soil rich with the possibility of Won
derful harvests into their actuality.
1t is the reinforcement of life from
the heights that transforms the lower
levels. This vital connection was in
PauPs thinking as he wrote to these
men and women, "called to be saints"
transformed by the renewing of their
minds" Making their bodies the
means of expressing the sacrifcial
character of their life that were to be
given to God, spiritual service. The
boys in khaki and blue can interpret
the verse for us all, for it was the
very passion of self-giving that car
ried so many of them into the heart of
Flanders fields. And such a surren-
der will transform one. Coningsbv
Dawson tells of the simpering girls
who faced the deadly storm that they
might serve wounded and dying men
whose faces took on new expression
and eXaltation. You will no longer
look like the rest of the world, but will
bear witness to a subtle change. And
related to the heights, one will know
the will of the highest height, even
the God of the heights.
THE HIGH LIFE IN A LOW PLACE
Connection and not location deter.
mines life. A tiger in Central Park
is. precisely the same beast that
roamed the Indian jungle. The child
of an Englishman may be born in an
African kraal, but that will not kinl,
his hair nor darken his face. Life
from the heights may sink to the low
cts valley of existence, but it carries
its characteristics with it. After a
special word to leaders to be humble