BUSINESS PUT INTO RELIGION Present Crisis in Nation's Life Should Be Met First by Spiritual Forces BUILDS TEMPLE International Sunday School Lesson For November 7 Is "Joash Bepairs Temple" (Br WILLIAM T. ELLIS) If I were czar of this Western world In this present unequalled cri sis in human events, there are three or four fundamental things that I would set the people to doing. Chief among these I would require that all the churches and religious societies throughout the land receive lresh at tention and that as may be neces sary, they be rebuilt in their physi cal equipment and spiritual organiza tion. Wherever there is a breach in the walls of the Churcn—literally or metaphorically it should be quickly repaired. The fashion of young King Joash, of long ago, whose experience in rebuilding the temple is to-day's Sunday school lesson, is a foundainen tal fashion to follow. The reason is clear; such crises in a nation's lite as the present are to be met first of all by spiritual forces. All the armies and navies that mili tary genius could devise or command cannot safeguard a nation whose peo ple have lost their vision and their noblest purposes. Ideals are ulti mately the defense of a nation. No people have lost their vision and their noblest purpose*. Ideals are ulti mately the defense of a nation. No graver issue is before our time than that of rehabilitating in the minds of the multitudes the great old con victions and purposes which first made us strong. Nobody need lose sleep at night from fear of a hostile invasion; but there is real reason for sleepless concern over the steadily undermining of the intogrities of faith and duty which may be detect ed in process. The nation looks to the Church for spiritual strength and tor the vision that will meet the new duties of the high hour that is upon us. What help remains If. in this time of times instead of a Church with a clear, lot'ty, ringing message to men's souls, we have merely an agglomeration of petty, contending, small-minded and sordid ecclesiastical organizations, so engrossed with trifling politics and the material needs of self-sub sistence. that they are deaf and blind to the heroic summons of God end humanity? Life Mirrors Religion Like every other national leaider who lias had wit enough to know anything about his business, Joash understood that the prosperity of Judah was bound up with the wel fare and fidelity of religion. No na tion ever comes to its height apart trom the Inspiration and support of a religious faith. Both France and Germany a year ago, were the sub ject of many articles concerning their religious decline. Now, in the seven times heated furnace of war both have found their souls. Tet It is be cause the nations had subordinated spiritual concerns to material values that we have this world war. Life mirrors religion. When religion be comes perfunctory, mechanical or secondary, then we have such col lapses of civilization as that which is to-day staggering humanity. Is it too much to hope that after the awful obligations which this war is creating have been laid upon the survivors, and accepted open-eyed, some nation will deliberately under take to grive religion the right of way in its life? Can we Imagine a peo ple dedicated whole-heartedly to God's highest purposes? What could not such a nation do in this re-made world! Occasionally mankind has seen what one wholly, dedicated Christian could accomplish. When Dwight L. Moody was a young man he heard a speaker say. "The world Is yet to see what God can do with a wholly consecrated man." Moody resolved that he would be that man. And Moody, whose bones are mold ering on Little Round Top in North field. still lives as one of the world's greatest forces. Making a Clean Sweep If anybody asks why the temple at Jerusalem so sorely needed repairing, there is one sentence in the lesson which makes answer. After the rec ord nf Joash 'a loyalty to God. we read "Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrifled and burnt incense In the high places." That Is a good picture of modern life. Theoretically, we have a Christian civ ilization: actually, materialism, pride, arrogance, cruelty, selfishness and avarice have kept the incense burning on their high places. There is no room even in the circumambient ether for the smoke of the rival incense from the altars of Jehovah and the altars of idolatry and self-indulgence. God demands that He be God alone. A queer notion is lodged firmly in certain pious minds that the passive virtues are all that are needed for the bringing in of the kingdom of heaven. Some folk don't want to be disagree able even to the devil himself. They would not speak ill about even the worst foes of society. This is the more strange when we remember that if anything at all is clear In the program of God, as indicated in both the Old Testament story and the New Testa ment Record of the life of Jesus it is that wickedness must be overthrown. The Christian Is called to be an Icono ■ last, an idol smasher. There are some men who are church pillars who <io not weigh an ounce when it conies to driving corruption out of a com munity. Yet to fight evil is as surely a part of the Christian program as to proclaim the good. The high places must be maintained in her Integrity, for the service of the world. There 4U r a host of social ills that will have to be remedied if we are going to meet the new day in the spirit of the king dom of heaven. Overloading tlie Preacher For a long time King Joash tried to have the temple repaired, but without success. He was slow in finding out ft Clears Complexion JJ t»o»'t worry about skin troubles. 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He wanted the priests to provide the money and to do the work, but that was more than even the patient preacher could stand. Not until a business system was Introduc ed. and burdens distributed, and the lay workers called in each to do hie own part, was the big job of temple restoration put through. There are a good many objections to the present popular program of loading all the work of a church on to the preacher. One Is sufficient to mint out. It does not succeed. There 'never was a preacher bis enough to [carry a whole church; and there never 'will be. Those congregations who are I asking their ministers to be errand boy, parish visitor, property commit tee, financial agent, church supper or ganizer, delegttte-to-everythi:ig, and general factotum and roustabout, are guilty of several blunders, the cardinal one being sheer stupidity. The only i way a church is going to thrive Is for | everybody to bear his part. The minis ter's tasks ought to be to preach the ! Gospel. Instruct the people and to be a pastor of the flock. The officers of I the church should have gumption enough to see that he does this with out neglecting it, and that they do their own share of the work with equal fidelity. The priests fitted beautifully into Joash's scheme when Joash came to his a«nMi, and developed a. busi ness-like scheme for the enterprise of temple repairing. It has been said that the quickest way to dampen the enthusiasm of a prayer meeting is to talk money. Nevertheless, as of old, BO to-day, money Is needed for the work of the Church. To secure It from proper mo tives and in adequate amount, is one of the greatest single difficulties of or ganized religion. Somehow, the Church has not as keen a financial sense as she had in the days of Joasli. There Is more pettiness exhibited in the financial aspect of religion than in any other manifestation of Chris tianity—and that is saying a Rood deal. Anybody who has ever sat on a church board has witnessed the strange phenomenon of businessmen, who are accustomed to doing practical things in a practical way, and to con ducting large enterprises in a broad spirit, going about church matters with an entirely new state of mind, which is chiefly characterized by its smallness. Who can explain why it is that when businessmen go at the fin ancial side of the church their ideas immediately become peanut size? Men who pay generously In the cham ber of commerce, or in their social clubs, count pennies when it comes to the Church. There is many a man with an in come of thousands of dollars a year who is a total stranger to the experi ence of giving as much as one hun dred dollars in a single year to the church. A whoie crowd of epigrams and stories' nave arisen, concerning this well-known condition. One Is "Some men give according to their means, and others according to their meanness." "Some Christians are so stingy that when the minister gives out 'Old Hundred' they start to sing 'Ninety and Nine' in order to get one per cent, off." If a Christian has not religion enough to give generously, proportion ately and systematically to the church he has surely not religion enough to take him to heaven, or to any other Christian goal. The first Tki Unl Yw Han Alwap Boirctit •« O&S/ffl&ZZZu evidence of a revival In religion In many a church would be an increasa in the pastor's salary, and the ing of the church. I have observed in heathen lands that at the entrance to the temples there is & large chest —Joash fashion—for the receipt o* offerings. The first act of worship in heathendom is to make a gift. Now, as of old. the grave problem is one of putting the church Into flt condition on her material side, and in her spiritual strength, to meet the crlsl that is now upon the world. 13
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