The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-07-06

powers were further reinforced by the
prayer that made God a partner in
the higher enterprise. And on top
of it he took his afternoon nap as
calmly as tho death had never stall
ked across his career. Talk about
steady nerves-Daniel had them. He
knew the value of Sleeping on any
question and when he woke he had
his answer. Some mo1eTns will say,
"Telepathy and the sub-conscious
mind explain the whole matter" but
Daniel went back to God, High Part
ner in his quest, and poured out his
soul in praise before he told his COM
panions or notified the king. God
kept His rightful place in this mans
thinking under all circumstances.
THE RECOVERED DREAM
That was a dramatic scene where
the king listened to the story of the
wanderings of his own mind and felt
again something of the thrill that
reused him from his own slumbers
He saw again his vision and knew it
for his own. Then the richly robed
and musically-voiced figure unfolded
the history of the years before his
astonished eyes. Empires made their
great procession before him until he
saw them pause in weakness instead
of the golden glory that made his
own day the head of them all. Sud-
denly the whole building of mems
device went into dust before the touch
of another empire that differed from
all of them in that it was taken out
of the commonest material, shaped
by forces that were spirit and were
life, and then continued to grow until
all the earth was filled with it's fash
ion as enduring as the hills. And this
is what the Kingdom of Christ is do
ing in overturning the selfish empires
of greed and war and class that
new world in which dwelleth righ-
teousness may be created. 1t is the
march of democracy which caught
its inspiration from our Lord that
transforms the commonest of earth
into princes of the new order rising
upon the ruins of autocratic power.
THE REAL RULER AMONG MEN
The king fell upon his face before
Daniel and praised his God, enrich
ing Gods man by word and work.
His black tragedy had been turned
into joy and he crowned the man who
had made it possible. There is no
loss so great as that of mans
dream. For the business man to go
into the commercial world with high
ideals and purposes and see them
fade out in actual rub of cut-throat
methods leaves him impoverished tho
he control a thousand banks. For the
man to think of serving his country
and in the high noon Of endeavor lose
his vision and care only for fish from
a dirty political pool is to sink the
statesman into a fishmonger odorous
and odious tho he hold highest Office
The glory of Jesus was that He car
ried His dream to Calvary and saw
from the cross a world of men of
goodwill. That is the secret of His
power today for the man who faces
Him and slowly sees again the dream
that he had forgotten take place in
his life thrills again with all the joy
of unquenchable youth. And for any
man to follow the footsteps of his
Lord until there comes something of
the same undefeatable belief in the
underlying goodness Of folk is to. find
himself presently the holder of all
the gifts that men to whom he has
restored the dream can give him.
And it is really these men with Christ
at their head who keep dreams alive
in human hearts who are the real
rulers and the hope of the world to-
day.