The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-02-23

/ he fear, God was on guard. But his
servant was restless and woke before
the dawn. He carried an alarm clock
in his soul and could not sleep in the
face of force. He washed the hands
of Elisha but worshiped with the
king. One may be in the company Of
the prophet without being his COM
rade or catching his spirit.
THE UNSEEN RESERVES.
Fear quickened the sight in the
dim dawn and Elisha was hastily
roused by the panic stricken servant
Unherriedly he takes time to pray
before even going out to look at the
array. Communication must be kept
up with Headquarters. So Daniel
felt while the lions waited for their
meal. SO Christ steadied His spirit
before He climbed the cross. Marsh
all Foch knelt for an hour upon the
stone tagging of a church before he
launched the forces of democracy up
on their continent wide attack. But
Elisha had no concern for himself, he
would bring cheer to the shaken SER
want. The real prophet stoops to the
lowliest and builds from earth's out.
casts the kingdom of truth. The
spiritual reserves are already there,
they but wait our seeing. All heaven
may be modified on the side of
righteousness. A Moravian mission
airy named VonAsselt began work
among cannibals who had eaten two
/ predecessors. He felt for two years
the strain of struggling spirits and
finally a native came asking to see
his Waterman. All thru the house he
searched for the men who had stood
shoulder to shoulder around the home
of prayer and prevented attack even
by hired assassins. Finding none the
missionary took him back to the God
Of the Book whose angel encampeth
round about them that fear Him and
when he insisted that he had seen
them assured him that the mission
airy had had no need to see, he knew,
but to his eyes had been given the
vision because it was needed.
THE PROPHETS VICTORY.
When the men marched in Elisha
assumed the leadership of the expedi-
ton, which may still have been in the
dimness of dawn and led them I'M
hesitatingly into Samaria. There he
openly declared himself and chal-
lenged the whole plan in spectacular
fashion. Single handed he had cap
tured whole Sergeant
York looks small beside him. Equip
ment and numbers are not ever a
match for spirit; ideas secure the on
~ abiding conquests. What sort of
spirit does a prophet hold? When
the king wished to pay blow for blow
and blood for blood he stood in their
defense. He went farther still. he
fed the hungry prisoners and sent
them back to Damascus wiser than
they came. They were now champ
ions of the ideas that the prophet
proclaimed and were such good miss
ionaries that peace settled across the
warning border for an indefinite
period, perhaps until a new king
arose. And this is precisely the
road that will bring the same result
into the world of today. Sow swords
and you will reap blood, SOW good
will and reap peace. Hard indeed
would it be to enlist a Belgian against
the land Of Hoover and the Red
Cross. millions for Russia while
our own children starve and the oper-
ators sell miners meat from their
butchers block" fails to see the ten
for one distribution from Christian
hands to meet our own emergency
and fails just as far to see that to
build trust and confidence in good
will anywhere in the midst of CROP
ing Russia is to prepare a bridge
over which shall walk the dawning
of better day for all the world.
Peace is the Prophets final victory.