LESSON ON AMOS
"THE FEARLESS"
Not a Church in America
Would Want Him For
Preacher Says Ellis
NEW PROPHET COMING ?
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To Raise Such a Man God's
Habit Throughout the
Ages
By William T. Ellis
It is dangerous to make predictions,
but. reasoning from precedent and
from present needs and conditions, it
Is not unlikely that this new day of
ours will see raised up suddenly, from
obscurity and the ranks of the com
mon people, a new prophet for our
time, a man who will speak the blaz
ing message from God for which we
axe waiting. Clearly our need of needs
In religion Is for a great prophet and
leader, a man who can interpret this
new era In terms of God's will, and
arouse the Church to her mission.
To raise up such a man has been
God's habit throughout the ages. It Is
unthinkable that the present tlxnea,
more oruclal and portentlous than any
other epoch, should not produce the
man. Back in the orltlcal period of
Israel's life, when the northern king
dom seemed at the height of Its pros
perity and power and luxury, there
emerged from the South a man to de
clare that danger and doom awaited,
unless the nation shoudl return to jus
tice and to God. In less than half a
century after Amos spoke Israel had
been carried captive Into Assyria.
This man Amos was a flg-plncher
and a shepherd. The small flgs of the
sycamore tree can be fertilized only
after they have been punctured: I re
call a friend's saying to me one day in
Palestine, as we rested under a syca
more tree, "This Is what the Prophet
Amos used to do for a living" and he
drew down and pierced with his nails
a flg on the tree. A plain man of the
open air, a rough, out-of-doors, strong
muscled, tree-climbing, laboring man
was Amos. His home was In Tekoa,
half a dozen miles below Bethlehem.
He got his message for his time by
living close to the red ruck of com
mon things. No palace favorite he,
and no neophyte In the school of the
prophets. The great crisis that hung
over Israel—as some unknown fate
hangs over us to-day—produced a new
prophet who had been trained In God's
great school of everyday life.
A New Voice for the New Times
More important and significant to us
than anything Amos said is this truth
of the timeliness of the pronhet with
a clear message from God. "We are to
look for our messenger not in the form
of a high-salaried "expert" on soci
ology, nor In the form of a sophisti
cated. wire-pulling ecclesiastic, nor of
a captain of religious Industry, dwell
ing amid office devices and telephones,
call bells and card indexes; nor of a
harbered, manicured, denatured elo
cutionist from a fashionable theo
logical seminary: but In the guise Of a
man ablaze with God, and heart
broken under the weight of the worli's
woe. Somewhere he is brooding in
silence, peering into the day's events,
praying with agony to God. No board
will elect him to be the day's prophet,
no* will any committee anpoint and
direct him. Probably he will not come
to us through any of our conventional
religious channels, but crying, like
Kipling's "Bell Buoy." with the Inde
pendence of a free soul coveting a
hard task:
"There was never & priest to prav.
There was never a hand to toll,
When they made me guard of the bay,
And moored me over the shoal.
I rock, I reel, and I roll—
My four great hammers ply—
Could I sneak or be still at the
Church's will?
(Shoal! 'Ware shoal!) Not I!
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The seaward lights are veiled.
The spent deep feigns her rest:
But my ear is laid to her breast,
I lift td the swell—l cry!
Could I wait in sloth on tha
Church's oath?
(Shoal! 'Ware shoal!) Not X!
'1 dip and I surge and I swing
In the rip of the racing tide,
By the gates of doom I sing,
On the horns of death I ride.
A ship-length overside.
Between the course and the sand,
Fretted and bound I bide,
Peril whereof I cry.
Would I change with my brother a
league inland?
(Shoal! 'Ware shoal) Not I!"
Getting at the Root of Thlffns
The business of a prophet is to deal
with first causes and final effects. Any
parlor-dawdling fop can tell that the
battle lines of Europe will produce a
ghastly crop of dead and maimed; but
only a philosopher-prophet can fore
see the new world's order that Is to
ensue after peace has come. The mqst
superficial reader of the news camtell
the occasions for the war; but only the
thinker carr trace its deeper causes. So
Amog dealt with things fundamental
and ultimate in Israel.
Thls old book, perhaps above all the
other prophecies of the Hebrew lit
erature, sounds the note for our times.
The passion for social justice which
has of late years been created among
us blazes more powerfully In the pages
of Amos than in any of our modern
sociological reviews. The relation be
tween poverty, oppression, injustice,
luxury and immorality and the fate of
a nation is made vividly clear by this
prophet. Like the men of Issachar, he
had understanding of his times In their
profoundest significance.
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trenches of Europe? Vast economic
changes. Of course: but the causes are
deeper than economic. The new forces
at work are essentially moral and
spiritual. Nonemployment will be ban
ished: the state's care for Its people
will be increased: the solidarity of the
nation and its responsibility will con
tinue to be demonstrated in peace as
in war: "efficiency" will have broader
interpretations: the hitherto unguessed
potentialities of the people will be
newly utilized; obese old things will be
courageously "scrapped": but in all,
and under all. and over all, a new,
divine spirit will be at work. Unless a
fresh and vital awareness of God
crowns our new peace, all the war will
have been In vain.
"A Man With the Bark On"
There is probably not a church in.
America that would call Amos to be Its
pastor. The reason would be not only
that his fearless, disconcerting arraign
ment of current popular evils would
offend many of the leading members,
but also because his pulpit manners
would be entirely too unconventional.
Nowadays the way a minister creases
his trousers and ties Ills necktie and
combs his hair have more than a little
to do with his getting a call. About
the last thing pulpit committees ask
after they have run down the line of
a preacher's appearance, his pulpit
manners, his Bocial accomplishments,
the disposition of his wife, his money
raising ability, and his popularity with
the young people—ls whether the man
has a clear message from God.
No Amos for the modern church,
thank you! This primitive man, llker
In dress and method and message to
one of the fanatical Wahabl Arabs
from the Yemen than any other pres
eni-day figure I can Imagine, was "a
man with the bark on," and not a
sleek, well-broken parlor figure, a fa
vorlte at afternoon teas. He resembled
one _of those disconcerting Quakers
with a "concern" who were so afire
with God's message that they often
trampled on the petty conventionali
ties.
It is wholesome for us to pause, is
the light of this crude, stern, elemen
tal figure of the old Hebrew prophet
and contemplate our present-day solici
tude over the millinery and methods
and minor matters of religious pro
cedure. God's great hour has struck:
shall His Church still beguile hersefl
with toys and trifles? The challenge
of Amos to us, as to old Israel, is to
open our eyes and our hearts and to
turn unto the God of our fathers.
One point more of present perti
nency about Amqs. He began his
preaching by pointing out the case of
the surrounding nations —Damascus,
Gaza, Tyre. Edom, Amnion and Moab.
He grasped the truth thai God deals
with nations, as well as with individ
uals. After he had caught the ears of
Israel by this method he turned swiftly
and fearlessly to a statement of the
sin an<* duty of Israel and Judah.
Then ht amplified the application of
his texts. "Prepare to meet thy God,"
"Seek the Lord and ye shall live," by
pointing out the evils of his own day
and his own people. The book is at
once a sermon on renentance and on
social justice. "Hate the evil, and
love the good, and establish judgment
in the gate: It may be that the Lord
God of hosts will be gracious unto the
remnant of Joseph." Qne of our own
poets has put the same message thus:
"Hold ye the Faith—the Faith our
Fathers sealed us;
Whoring not with visions—overwise
and overstate.
Except ye pay the Lord
Single heart and single sword,
Of your children in their bondage He
shall ask them treble-tale!
"Keep ye the Law—be swift In ali
obedience—
Clear the land of evil, drive the road
and bridge the ford.
Make ye sure to each his own
That he reap where he hath sown;
By the peace among Our peoples let
men know we serve the Lord!"
LOOKING ON NEW YORK
From the top of green omnibuses I
have looked down, I suppose, on some
of the very best people in town with
out their knowing it or my knowing
It. The 'bus Is no longer a novelty in
New York, but It Is still an experi
ence. People, for example, do not
read newspapers on the top of the
omnibus, and men passengers have a
habit of taking oft their hats for air
which suggests self-improvement
rather than rapid transit. The 'bus
must bei good for one's health, but it
works for self-consoiousness. People
visibly begin to brace themselves for
the descent of the spiral staircase sev
eral blocks before their destination,
and that can hardly be good for the
nerves. But my chief objection to
the motor-bus Is on moral grounds. I
don't know how it Is with others, but
In my own case I find that the *cure
possession of a railing seat on top of
the bus la conducive oold super
ciliousness. I Ifc>ok down on the
crowds of waiting shoppers at the
curb and I feel that the best they can
hope for la an inside seat on a plane
quite below my own. They wait pa
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lumber past. They signal hopefully,
and make their way out into the traf
fic, ony to be waved back by the con
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warm glow that arises from a vested
interest, possesses me. Sometimes I
am sorry for the disappointed shop-
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BISHOP TO 9PEAK
Bishop James H. Darlington will
speak to-night on "What We Are Here
For." 'at the monthly social meeting l
of the Alrlcka Association In 8t An
drew's parish house, Nineteenth and
Market streets.
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