East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-10
FOLLOWING GOLDEN RULE
Continued from page 1.)


God is, not speculative, theoretical
something, but living, cital person
al Someone; the other fact was that
God has a sublime purpose and
magnificent goal toward which all
things are tending. 1t was this COM
|pelling faith that enabled Tennyson
to sing centuries afterwards that
there is q far off dime eevnt toward
which the whole creation moves"
As Jesus went back over the earl
Ter period Of the history of his own
race and people saw that purpose
|gleaming and glowing like a great
star along the orbit of time and
events, In which the unfolding and
developing life of His people had
swung. He was not therefore, so
much, the founder of this Kingdom
as He was the finder of it. 1t had lost
something Of its power and creative
impulse as it had become overlaid
with superstition, tradition and ritual
ism and He uncovered 1t and restored
1t to its original strength and influ-
|ence
Perhaps the nearest approach we
can come to His mind In regard to 1t
Is In this Sermon on the Mount. For
He never defined the term for the
reason that definition is always limi-
tation. But He used illustrations in
Vulnerable to picture the greatness.
the gradeur and the glory of it. But
liz we insist on trying to dcfirre what
He only described we might say that
the Kingdom is merely all Of human
society organized according to the
will and purpose of God. That
when so organized eevry man shall
recognize God as His Father and
every man as his brother.
1t is easy to discover that will and
purpose of God. One doesn't need to
be either a theologia nor q philoso-
|pherto understand that the one thing
above all others that God seeks and
demands is righteousness. The Pro-
phet summed 1t all all up when he
affirmed that what every 'man
should seek was ito do justly, love
mercy and walk humbly with God"
This Is merely a declaration of how
righteousness would express itself.
Matthew Arnold put it all in one SEN
ltence when he said, There is pow
er not ourselves that makes for right
eousness.' Righteousness Is simply
Brightness, rightness in relation to
God and rightness nrelation to our
brother man. This principle is so
comprehensive and inclusive that
there isn't a sphere of activity into
which it cannot enter and dominate
| 1t. .@s
| 1t is coming into the industrial
world. More and more, the employ
ling class are ceasing to look at their
employees as mere cogs in the machin-
cry or as so many hands. In many of
our great manufacturing enterprises,
the men in control are saying what
one said recently, "The labor prob
lem will be solved only when we en-
ployers stop thinking that the bust
ness is ours and we can do with it as
we please. We must frankly recog-
nize that our wage workers have a
fright to come to us. The old idea
| that the business is ours to hire and
fire whom we please is not in ac-
cordance with the teachings of reli-
gion. Our success depends on fol-
lowing the teachings of Jesus. The
sooner we forget our medieval ideas,
inherited from the days of feudalisni,
1.-THE sooner we shall solve our labor
TROUBLES What is this but saying
that until the relations of capital and
labor are put on the basis OF right
ness there will be strikes in your coal
mines and your steel plants. The
men who sweat inside the head and
Those who sweat outside must find a
point of contact by which they can
come together and realize that their
/ interests are mutual and I submit
that one is your Father and all yea
are brothers. rl
! There, is another thing, however
THAT needs to be emphasized. After
/ this particular platform in our Code
Iof Ethics had been uttered Jesus ney'
or refers to 1t again. Not one OF His
i Immediate followers ever mentions 1t
lWhy? Because there was always the
danger that 1t would be segregated
lfrom all the rest of that most wcights
utterance and therefore would lack
lany sufficient motive to give 1t tht
sweep and swing of victory. In place
of 1t there was substituted simple
direct command of just five LITTLE
words, incapable Of being misunder
stood, or wrongly interpreted. art
linked on to other words that would
furnish the dynamic needed for ODE
dience. That command was Low
your neighbor as yourself. Not bet
ter. nor other than yourself for tina
is only false and impossible altru
lism, but as yourself All the law !
fulfilled in one word, thou shalt low
they neighbor as yourself. Tha
word neighbor is your fellow man 0
whatsoever race. or creed. or color o
station. What that commandment !
obeyed the Golden Rule is fulfilled.
The Golden Rule in the light Of thi
, great commandment means simpl
this that you are to make yourself
lpeer in the great. empire Of the Eter
J nal God and then never rest satisfie
'Iuntil YOU have made every other ana
,,aurs Z m oral q nd eniriftaI antial