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.
Excerpts From the
Devil's Dictionary
Pro-German —a wart developed by
the war; dangerous unless speedily
removed.-
Slacker—one who is willing to "let
George do it;" a plain coward.
• Exemptionlst—one who suddenly
discovers that he has dependants
whom he never gave a thought to
before; a hard boiled egg turned
soft.
Pacifist—a peace bargain-hunter;
one who would explain away an in
sult to his mother.
Profiteer—a thief in broadcloth.
C. O.—abbreviation of Conscien
tious Objector; one who quotes the
Bible to support his position, and
"No bowl is too
big when it holds
Post „
Toasties
3^ -SSo&fyJ .
neglects to quote It where It puts
him in wrong.
Peace Talk—pink pabulum for
pale "patriots."
Sedition—one of the fine arts prac
ticed by the pro-German press of
America.
Bluff —a German name for Amer
ican valor; also, a steep headland,
such as precipitated certain swine
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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." ,
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