The Republican., 1922-05-04

cient glory of the land In Him
would be realized the promise of
peace for the world because it should
have begun in His own soul. With
the light of Easter streaming back
we know that there has been but one
Man filing out the details of the pic
ture. Doubtless the prophet had
more blurred image, for there is none
Of the tenderness that we know but
only the strength that ruled with un-
derstanding, but yet with an iron
hand. There would be ripeness and
sharpness of mind, ability to plan
and energetic decision in executing
it, knowledge Of Gods will and the
commanding conscience to carry it
out. He would rule in righteousness,
caring for the poor and oppressed so
that one law would be over all and
would be administered impartially for
the best interests of each. 1t is a
great judge that sits upon the throne.
But the peace secured has anything
but a Christian foundation for it is
nothing more than the supremacy of
the Jew. 1t is built upon force rather
than upon love and goodwill, for it
involves the Staying of those counted
wicked by the ruling power which is
nothing more than the German idea
Of universal rule by overpowering
those they counted unrighteous. Isa-
iah with all his insight and the spir-
itual passion that fills his words was
yet far below our Lord in the think
ing through to the new earth in which
dwelleth righteousness and peace.
His was dawn but not high noon.
NATURE REDEEMED
Man was yet in the midst of his
struggle with the animal world for
the ownership of the land. He has
not yet come to his dominion. but
the contestants are different, for we
no longer fear wolves, lions and SER
pents, but make our attack upon
germs and insects instead. Isaiah
could not think of leaving out of the
future of peace any element of ami
NAL life. That hate is not necessary
IS seen in the domestication of all
sorts Of beasts and in the absence of
| any necessary antagonism between
man and themselves where mans
blood-lust has not been seen. But
Christ does include this world in His
, dominion as well as that of men. The
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals is known only where He is
known. The campaign against the
useless slaughter of birds draws its
ylrllity from Him. Game laws have
no being where He has not been. Ev-
erywhere "the earnest expectation of
the creature looketh for the manifes-
tation of the sons of God" | can't
pass on mans religion" said local
preacher, until l have been in his
stock" That shrewd reader of life
knew that brutality to beasts and
love to men could not live together
in the same soul. All nature is vet
to feel the benefciant touch of the
Son of God and rejoice in it:
THE WORLD ENLIGHTENED
The world shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord, as the water
covers the sea. Here is another
characteristic of the new dominion of
Jesus. The world in its age-long
experience with subject people
laughed like a bunch of hoodlums
when we shipped school teachers by
the thousands into the Philippines.
Keep them ignorant if you wish to
keep your power was their dictum.
But government in either church or
state that can not bear the light of
the most pitiless publicity in the scru-
tiny of an intelligent following can
no longer live in these days of de-
mocracy. The little red school house
with all its crudeness justified itself
in the forming days of the republic.
Full knowledge will solve many of
the present ills in the life of the
world. And when it includes what
Isaiah had in mind, the moral and
religious element, there will come the
reign of a peace utterly impossible
Without it. And the revival Of mis-
sionary activity and service to every