THE TRUTH BACK OF THE SOLDIERS
International Sunday School Lesson For June 30
Is "Jesus Christ, Our Redeemer and Lord"
—A Semiannual Review—John 3-16
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
Countless minds are seeking to see
clearly tho relation between the
world war, with its implications and
the great principles of righteousness
and religion. For a time, especially
in England, there was a rather fran
tic questing after occult beliefs, as
if the key might be with them: but
that vagary has been largely given
up. There is now a return to the
great simplicities of the life and
teachings of Jesus. We perceive,
with growing clearness that He has
the master word for this perplexing
time. So a study of this opportune
Sunday School Lesson takes us
straight into the realms of the prin
ciples of God which are related to
the war.
Jesus caused this war. If nations
had not been sitting at His feet, even
so heedlessly, there would have been
none to take up the sword of right
eousness when the spirit of the Anti
christ went forth to smite the na
tions into submission to Its cruel
sway. The present conflict is more
nearly akin to that of Saint George
and the Dragon than any war ever
before waged. We do not by any
means argue for the impeccability
of St. George—meaning thereby our
selves—but we are clear that he is
doing God's work in the slaying of
the Dragon. Out of this struggle
has emerged a new sense of the
awfulness of injustice and cruelty;
standards are now being fixed that
will not easily be relaxed. And those
standards are the standards of
Jesus. Despite all of its callousing
awfulness, this war has become the
war of spiritual vision. John Oxen
ham has shown, in one of his poems,
what it means to the soldier to be
face, to face with reality:
"What did you see out there my lad,
That has set that look in your
eyes ?
You went out a boy, you have come
back a man.
With strange new depths under
neath your tan;
What is it you saw out there, my
lad.
That set such deeps in your eyes?"
"Strange things, and sad, and won
derful—
Things that I scarce can tell;
I have been in the sweep of the
Reaper's seythe,
With God, and Christ, and hell.
"I have seen Christ doing Christly
deeds;
I have seen the devil at play;
I have gripped to the sod in the
hand of God,
I have seen the godless pray.
"I have seen Death blast out sud
denly
From the clear blue summer sky;
I have slain like Cain with a blazing
brain,
I have heard the wounded cry.
"I have lain alone among the dead,
With no hope but to die;
I have seen them killing the wound
ones,
I have seen them crucify.
"I have seen the devil In petticoats
' Wiling the souls of men;
I have seen great sinners do great
deeds.
And turn to their sins again.
"I have sped through hells of flery
hail.
With fell red-fury shod;
I have heard the whisper of a voice,
I have looked in the face of God."
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FRIDAY EVENING,
"You've a right to your deep, high
look, my lad.
You have met God in the ways,
And no man looks into His face
But he feels it all his days.
You've a right to your deep, high
look, my lad.
And we thank Him for his grace."
Introducing Man to God
Many a soldier has thus met God
for the first time on the battlefield
which is the most important thing
in heaven or earth. It is so impor
tant that it brought Christ to this
world. As we look back over six
months of study in the life of Jesus,
we pereflßve how the central facts is
that the Master was continually try*
ing to introduce men to the Father
in heaven. He wanted men to know
God. Their ideas were twisted and
email and unworthy. They had been
conventionalized to the point of os
sification. What the Jews believed
was more about a theological and
ecclesiastical system than about a
living, loving God. All vitalities are
in danger thus of losing their reality
and becoming a form. So Jesus, with
a simplicity that does not at all re
semble the elaborate structure that
we have erected in his name, came
to show us what God is really like,
and what he would have us do.
Anybody who can bring God down
out of a misty and mysterious heav
en. and make him personal and
present, is continuing the work of
Christ. Anything that accomplishes
this end is worth while, even though
it be a world conflagration. Trivial
scepticism and cynical agnosticism
and blatant infidelity were early vic
tims of the present conflict. We
know that there is a God, whose
thoughts are not our thoughts and
whoso ways are not our ways, and
who acts on a stupendous scale for
the fulfilment of vast designs, all
meant to bring man into closer ac
cord with his Heavenly Father. The
Jesus program is being fulfilled
in strange ways in our time. With
new dignity and sacredness, nations
are finding themselves in accord, as
tools in the hand of the Workman,
with these divine purposes. By the
red glare of battle we are seeing
God anew.
The Basis of tlie New Order
Only three men have emerged
from this war, on the allied side, as
dominating figures and they were
already such by virtue of their po
sition President Wilson, Lloyd
George and Premier Clemenceau. In
the "quiet talks which men have
about the war, saying the things
which are never printed, one some
times hears this point stressed,
that the war has not produced any
great leaders from among the un
known, but has, instead, been a
great revelation of the capacity and
character of the common man and
woman. Now this is not so wonder
ful as it may seem. Since this war
means the inauguration of a new
world order, we may properly look
for analagous principles in the ea
tablishment of his kingdom by Jes
us. Even a cursory glimpse of his
methods shows that he depended
upon the Obscure and commonplace
people for the carrying out of his
plans. He built his kingdom upon
the average man.
Kaiser William made the mistake
of thinking the ancient method of
world dominion, which the heathen
world has always practiced, was
still workable—the rise of an auto
crat and conqueror. Even in more
civilized quarters there are those
who seek still for the advent of a
"strong man' in the armies, and es
specially in Russia, to lead us out of
our difficulties. They are wrongr. The
Jesus way is the way of the rise of
the common people. There is more
hope for humanity in the leveling up
of the common average than in the
development of a superman. Nothing
that I found in France impressed me
more deeply than the high plane of
the idealism.of the common soldiers.
A nation, or rather, a group of na
tions, have proved the workability
of the noblest principles, of the
average citizen.
In the new day which lies on the
other side of the war—though its
sunrise beams already brighten our
darkness—the teachings of Jesus for
society are to be put into effect by
the consensus of opinion of the
great mass of us. We cannot look
for a great preacher or ecclesiastic
to come forth as a Moses; evidently,
as in the days of his flesh, our Lord
is his reliance upon a group
of plain people made effective by
their relationship with him, and by
their understanding of his mind.
Kvery teacher, every parent, every
commonplace preacher and editor,
is to have an indispensable part in
ushering in the regime which Jesus
lived and died to bring to pass.
A Strange Idea of Religion
Ceremony, ritualism and formali
ties characterize the temples and
cathedrals of earth. The hand of
pre-Christian Jewish ritualism has
'been heavy upon the moderiuChrist
ian Church. But in the <-<fs!y there
is none of this, except the sacra
ment of the Lord's Supper, and that
most simply observed. Religion
among the soldiers is chiefly a mat
ter of ministry. Only those who have
been with the troops can appreciate
fully how this new definition of
Christianity has come to prevail.
Chaplains give most of their time
to the doing of odd jobs for the men.
The Y. M. C. A. are busy almost ex
clusively in ministry, often of the
humblest sort. The Salvation Army
lassie in France has laid aside her
tambourine for a frying pan, and
she gives more time to doughnuts
than to devotions. This experience
has been to all Christian workers a
revelation of the power and beauty
and dignity and worshipfulness of
sheer service.
Some say this is the new concep
tion of religion, that is to prevail
after the war. There is nothing new
about It. It is simply a return to
first principles. Jesus went about do
ing- good. He revealed his message
and his mind by his ministry- He
was a helper of people. No office of
kindliness was too lowly to com
mand all of his divine energies.
Gladly he made himself of no repu
tation. His time was at the com
mand of the crowds. Our newly
teachable world will learn from
Jesus, and from the war, the sancti
ty of service. We have caught a new
vision of the tremendous reality of
Christ's teaching about the giving
of a cup of cold water.
The H&licst Decoration
Look back over the lessons of the
past half year, we see one devoted
to peace. It was the story of the
storm on Galilee, stilled by the
words of Jesus. We note in this the
first condition of all real .peace. It
came by the dominance of a superior
will. The waves subsided at the
word of their Master. It was not a
premature or a negotiated or a com
promised peace. There was nothing
half way about it. The unruly wa
ters obeyed the master word of
righteousness. There can be no effect
ive peace, apart from this condition.
War will cease when the will of
righteousness, the demands of Jus
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cepted. Out of this awful strife
must come the supremacy of the
principles of God. The peace we
seek is no mere international adjust
ment; it is the breaking forever of
a malign power on earth, which has
palpably done the will of the evil
one, and the substitution of right
eousness and good will.
The biography of Jeeus comes to a
climax. Like so many of our dear
dead, who have quit life sacrlflcally,
in the glory of their youth, and in
the act of sacrifice, Jesus did not
have to endure the trial of seeing
His tasks slip from His hands one by
one, while His vitality slowly peter
ed out through the long years. Old
age is honorable, and may be 'beauti
ful: but there is something of the
sublime and cllmateric in the life
that ends at Is 'very apex. Some
how, we cannot think of Christ apart
from His cross. It was the fulfill
ment of all that He taught and did.
In the army; there is a beautiful
phrase concerning the fallen sol
dier, —"He won a wooden cross, the
highest decoration." By the grave
of every fallen soldier there is erect
ed a plain wooden cross, with the
marks of identlficaUon. No other
symbol is used in all of France.
True, the French put flowers and
wreaths upon the graves of their
own and the allied dead. As one
travels over the area of battle he
sees these forests of crosses. The
symbolism of it impresses even a
dullard. These heroes have followed
Christ to a cross. They have died
that others may live. In noble self
surrender, they have given up their
life for mankind. Fittingly, the sign
of their victory is a cross.
Home tolk are wearing their
crosses on their hearts, out of sight.
They have entered with their belov
ed fallen into the feflowship of the
crosai They know the sorrow and
majesty of surrender. How many
mother Marys there are whose
hearts have been pierced by the
sword in these days! All the world
is conning the lesson of the cross.
Among builders of churches it has
been common practice to panel the
doors in a cross. The cross has
become a door. By it we enter into
a new unty of experience. By it we
approach to an understanding of the
deepest meaning of the life and
death of the Redeemer who died on
the cross, that all who follow Him
might live sacrificially, sublimely,
and serenly more.
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A. L BENSON QUITS
SOCIALIST PARTY;
ASSAILSLEADERS
Denounces False Doctrines
That Hold All Belliger
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New York. —Allan L. Benson, of
Tonkers, Socialist candidate for
President at the last national elec
tion and well known as a writer on
socialist subjects, both in the news
papers and magazines, resigned
from the Socialist party yesterday.
His resignation was made by letter,
copies of which Mr. Benson sent to
the dally newspapers.
While expressing regret at the
necessity for his action. Mr. Benson
declared the attitude of the Social
ist party toward the war, and parti
cularly as expressed by the "St.
Louis resolution® left him no
choice. He declared his chief pur
pose in resigning to 'be as a protest
against "the foreign-born leadership
that blindly believes a non-Ameri
can policy can be made to appeal to
many Americans."
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lows;
"I herewith present my resigna
tion from the Socialist party to take
effect at once. I do so with pro
found regret. I believe in democracy
as applied, both to the government
and to industry. But I do not be
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lleve in the attitude taken by the
party toward the war In what has
come to be known as the 'St. Louis
resolution.' I do not believe In
pledging the party to acts of vio
lence. For I do not regard the bel
ligerents as equally guilty. I know,
for instance, that Belgium is not
guilty at all and that Germany is
guilty of all. I know the govern
ment of the United States wages war
for neither money nor land, while
the government of Germany covets
both money and land. I know that
Germany, any moment she will ac
cept it, can get a just peace, and I
feel that until she will accept a Just
peace she should be compelled to ac
cept war.
"Beiieving that nothing worse
could happen to the world than to
be placed under the heel of German
Imperialism, I sever hiy relations
with a party that nationally places
the belligerents upon a parity and.
In the State of Wisconsin, recently
demanded the withdrawal of the
American army from Europe."
After commenting on the non-
Americanism of the foreign-born
leaders and members of the Social
ist party, Mr. Benson's letter con
tinues:
"A few men in the party who
should have known better have ac
cepted and proclaimed the false doc
trine that a workingman can have
no country, and therefore' that it is
immaterial to him whether the
country in which he lives, if it be at
war, shall be defeated or not.
"For these reasons,' Mr. Benson
concludes, "I now take leave of the
Socialist party a year after I ceased
to agree with it. It seemed to me
that, having been at the head of the
national ticket two years ago, it was
particularly my duty to wait and see
if the party would not fight itself.
JUNE 28, 1918.
'lt has not righted itself. I therefore
resign as a protest against the
foreign-born leadership that blind
ly believes .a non-American policy
can be made to 'appeal to many
Americans."
Mr. Benson was chosen the can
didate of the Socialist party by a
mail vote. He is forty-seven years
old, and before devoting his entire
time to. magazine work was an ac
tive newspaper man.
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