ONE GREAT ISSUE OF THE WAR The International Sunday School Lesson For Sep tember 2 Is "The Shepherd of Captive Israel." Ezekiel Chapter 34 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Curiously, the most modern utter ances upon present social phenomena are not to be found within the pages of present-day philosophers, but In an old, old book. One almost as he reads such a message, unknown to the general reader, as this chapter form a book written five hundred years before the beginning of the Christian era, and now made the sub ject of study of the Sunday schools of the world. All observers of the trend of the times have been longing for some great and pertinent utter ance that will call the leaders of the people to a sense of their responsibil ity. It has almost seemed as If this war Is to develop great soldiers and economists and administrators, but no great prophets. Now we find that the word has been spoken, and spoken blisteringly. in pictorial and unsparing language. There is enough terrific truth, thrust home to the present minute, in this chapter to send every teacher and writer and preacher into grave exec utive session with himself; and to call for special conferences for self examlnation and confession on the part of all the religious leaders on the continent. Here is the great truth for this very day, spoken by one whose motives will not be mis trusted, and who will not be set aside as a sensationalist and a radical. Kzekial's position is too well estab lished to be shaken by the man who would escape the application of the message by attempting to discredit the messenger. , The Failure of Shepherds Most of the present failures of our Christian civilization are due to fail ures of our moral and religious lead ers. Let us not mince words here. Shallowness, materialism, sensuality, pleasure-lust, ruthless selfishness in economic relations, political perfidy, and the plight of the poor, may not be evaded as a responsibility of those who set moral and social standards. Our generation has lacked supremely in faithful shepherds, who are now adays called preachers and teachers and authors and editors, and pub licists. The high, stern, challenging note has been missing from the spoken and written word, generally speaking. Suppose we press the point fur ther, before quoting an extract from Ezekial. In conversation among themselves, religious leaders freely ndmit that the minstry has never before been so manifestly treated as a "job" a means of livelihood, as to day. So also with the teaching pro fession we etaosihnrdlaloet etaohiri fession. We are busy with schemes of pensions and minimum salaries to make the positions as lucrative and attractive as possible. Even be ing a missionary may become a mere profession. Clergymen, like actors, are graded by the salaries they can command. Ecclesiasticiam concerns itself more with the business end of the church and her employed officers than with the living issues that touch the welfare of the spirits and bodies of the people. Of course there are a multitude of noble exceptions; but what honest and informed person will deny that professionalism is the blight of moral and religious leader ship to-day? When a real prophet is found in the ministry he likely to be made a bishop or a board secre tary, where he will indeed have des perate times saving his own sout. A newspaper would scarcely dare print what follows, lest it seem to be criticising the preachers, save that the words are taken from the Bible itself. 'Note the recurrence of the charge that the shepherds feed them selves, while the sheep go hungry. Hear now what .said the faithful prophet of God twenty-five hundred years ago: "Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep? Ye eat the fat, ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fattlings; but ye feed not the sheep. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and rigor have ye ruled over them. And they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill; yea, my sheep were scattered upon all' the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek after them. "Therefore, ye shepherds, hpar the word of Jehovah: As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shep herds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep; therefore, ye shepherds, heard the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I qm against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hands, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shep herds feed themselves any Jnore; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them." I am writing these words In tiro city of Peking, China, which for ten days has been in the throes of an attempt to restore the Manchu mon archy. The period has been one of the saddest of my life, for it is a heart-breaking thing to see an an cient nation, with four hundred mil lions of people, facing the greatest crisis of its history, the one that may netermine its very existence as a national entity, without a single thought on the part of anybody, so far as apparent, for the welfare of the nation and the people. It is all self-interest gone to seed. Force and leadership are totally lacking not a man having lifted his h'ead above the horizon, 'simply because the shepherd Instinct is lacking among public men. Official position is deemed by everybody merely an opportunity for personal wealth ana aggrandizement. Politics and graft have run their full curse, until there seems to he no conviction in high places, no sense of national re sponsibility, no passion of patriotism. China's shepherds have failed herj. On every hand I see pitiable evi dences of abject concern for personal safety and goods, but nowhere is there evidence of anybody's agoniz ing for this great mass of people. Evidence is not lacking that the western nations are being shaken In- to a new social solicitude by the world war. If this holacaust results In the universal dominance of con cern for the welfare of all sorts and conditions of men, then it will have been worth all Its coot. Human bet terment Is a goal of God. However 'atthless human shepherds may be, rehovah sleeplassly strives to bring pass good for mankind. There is FRIDAY EVENING, an Over-Shepherd who cames for all the sheep. Slowly, throughout the ages. He has been working out pur poses of good for even the least of mortals. So long as God sits on His throne, the sheep will be looked aft er and the faithless shepherds reck oned with. This Is the grim messsage of the lesson; every person in a shep herd post, be it a parent or a presi dent, or a preacher or a professor, or a publicist, will give an accounting to Him who so loves the sheep, even the wandering and wicked ones, that He gave His own Son to be their Good Shepherd. There are three great messages in this stirring chapter of social jus tice and the second is a word to strong and selfish sheep. The reader of this lesson cannot comfort him self by exulting In the criticisms of the preachers, or other shepherds. The wise old prophet has a word from the Lord concerning those self engrossed sheep which have no re spect for the weaker members of the flock. What a host of us are include ed within this denunciation! As cul pable as the erring shepherds are the men and women whose philosophy Is that of the madman Nietzsche, and whose working rule is "Look out for number one." To forget number two is to repudiate God*. "And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold. I will judge between sheep and sheep, the ram 3 and the he goats. Seemeth it a small thing to you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the resi due of the pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, that ye must foul the residue with your feet? And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden down with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. 'Therefore thus salth the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because ye thrust with side and shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep." What is this but another way of saying that to have one's name on a church roll is no assurance of the favor of God. Social injustice, self seeking, hard-heartedness, inconsld erateness, greed, oppression, are doubly to be condemned when com mitted by one who himself bears the brand-mark of the great Shephefd. We westerners, who want every thing done overnight, while we wait, are staggered by the long, long pa tience of God. For twenty-five hun dred years he has waited for the ful filment of some of his purposes, as indicated in this remarkable chap ter. Now accomplishment seems al most in sight. For the third of the messages of Kzeklel, in this crowded lesson, is that one day Jehovah would recall His sheep, Israel, from their wanderings, and establish them in peace and safety in the promised pasture of Canaan. "They shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have deliv ered them out of the hand of those thst made bondmen of them. And they shall no more be a prey to the nations .neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. And I will raise up unto them a-plantation of renown and they shall no more be consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. And they shall know that I, Jehovah their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pas ture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah." When we read the meager dis patches that occasionally seep out of Palestine we think of these glorious promises to the Chosen People. "They shall dwell securely," declared Ezekiel; but now the hand of the Turk Is heavy upon the Jews in the Holy Land and all of them know sore suffering. Famine has smitten many to death, and all are perse cuted and harried. Nevertheless, we may see through the veil of present darkness. The future of the Land of Promise was Yiever more brignt than now. Th# Messianic hope was never so high. All around the world Jews are making ready to rehabili tate Palestine, after the sway of the Turk has been removed. The fulfil ment of Israel's ancient hope is only one of the many vast boons to be purchased by the high price of this war. So Ezekiel accords with the news paper. At the present time a plastic world is readier than ever before for his great message. We want to think that by means of all these up heavals and overturnings the great shepherd purposes of God are work ing out, and .that the very gravity of the hour will recall shepherds and sheep to the obligations which run through all time. God is the shep herd of nations, as well as of indi viduals. He may be leading the world over a rocky and thorny way at present, bvit wo' may be sure that His destination is green pastures and still waters. 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'' *nl 12c 5c 7c 73c V ™ c P °"^ er • " 29c Market Street KENNEDY'S | HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH into the sea and destroyed them. Freedom of the Press —a license to vilify America and get away with it; to abuse a generous confidence. Status Quo Ante—A German quack medicine to relieve the pa tient of artillery sclerosis; made only In Bjrlln. Boche—a butcher; disqualified by law for (International) Jury duty. Kaiserlsm —a disease requiring certain powerful powders and pellets to eliminate. Autocracy the right to do as you d please, and ask a blessing on it. See Me and Gott. DSJordan—a doctor of something; one who pours peace drugs of which he knows little into bodies politic of which he knows less. (Apologies to M. Voltaire.) Submarine—an American Inven tion perfected in Germany, per verted into a tool for the murder of women and children. Hell —a "Made in Germany" trade mark. —By Thomas Addison of the Vigi lantes. ROOSTER THINKS HE IS HEN Kansas City.—John B. Bales thinks AUGUST 31, 1917. his rooster is carrying mutual inde pendence of sexes entirely too far. The rooster has been sitting for the last two weeks on two eggs, {kid by friend hen before leaving for the first line feed trough. And he has the technique abso lutely pat; he sits as if he were born to the Job. When the timo comes to feed he leaves nest, stays thai right time and returns to the tasW of warming his potential offspring. "My wife and I have been keep-< ing chickens ever since we "went tot housekeeping," said Bales, "but this Is the first rooster X ever had that 1 took It into his head he was a hen." , 7