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The 'Great Enlistment
International Sunday School Lesson For July 7 Is
"Beginning the Christian Life John
1:35-51 —Acts 16:13-34.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
As an electric storm clears the at
mosphere, so this war is driving
away many intellectual fogs and
clouds and smoke waves and dust
storms. There never was deeper or
straighter thinking in the world than
ia now going on. despite the temp
tation to let prejudices control the
mind. Never before were so many
average men and women grappling
with the basic considerations of re
ligion. A characteristic of these days
is that people drive straight to the
heart of things. We are thinking in
basic terms.
So when the question is newly
raised, as it is in the present Sun
da v School Lesson. "What is Chris
tianity, and what does it mean to
become a Christian?" we do not ex
pect an answer in the stereotyped
theological phraseology of the
churchmen. That sort of shop talk
Is now as dead as Choctow. The pro
fessional lingo of religion is now in
tolerable. Life's red realities have
come too near to most of mankind
for us to be any longer content with
mere phrases, however well worn
and venerable. We do not want the
answers of the catechisms to the
most living of questions. We want
to hear, in the straight-flung speech
of the world stripped for action, so
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FRIDAY EVENING,, HXHJRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 5, 1918
plain and clear that it is understood
by the fighting man. what it means
| to be a Christian.
As tlie Chaplains See It
Out of the trenches, especially
through the medium of British and
Canadian chaplains, is coming a new
body of literature, freshly restating
religion. Much of this writing is
shockingly candid. I would not dare
quote it in the average pulpit or min
isters' meeting, for our people in
the homeland do not yet understand.
Xe\ ertheless, the very fact that these
clergymen have been so fearless in
finding out and stating the present
day difficulties of Christianity is elo
quent testimony to the truth that the
Church is not really afraid of new
light, however much the unkonwing
may sneer at her for so being. It is
a chaplain who says: "It is awful to
realize that when one stands up to
preach Christ the soldier feels that
you are defending a whole ruck of
obsolete theories and antiquated
muddles. It is all so much barbed
wire through which one has to climD
before ont finds his heart."
This misconception of what Chris
tianity really is recurs frequently in
all interpretations of the mind of the
soldiers. "They have not connetced
the truths with ordinary life. Life
is one thing, real, pressing, intensely
important. The creed is another
thing, very excellent in its way, de
serving of a certain respect, but be
loging to a different region, not con
cerned with, or at all bearing upon
practical affairs.
Another chaplain says—and these
quotations are taken from "The
Church in the Furnace," by Church
of England Chaplains—"lt is start
ling, no doubt, and humiliating, to
find out how very lttle hold tradi
tional Christianity has upon men. It
is not only their confounding ignor
ance of the elementary Christian
facts—not one in ten, I should think,
has a clear idea of what our religion
is or implies or offei*s—bu that they
fail to see how it bears upon or helps
then' in our present circumstances.
Anc very many have an honest feel
ing that it would be a positive handi
cap. So far as I am able to esti
mate. a Christian life, combined with
a pagan creed • • • One of the
greatest difficulties we have to face
out here is the superstition which
prevails, chiefly with officers and N.
C. O.'s, that if men begin to "turn
religious' they will at once begin to
'gel the wind up.' "
l'rom the Soldiers" Viewpoint
As if to support this structure upon
a self-centuered type of Christianity,
another chaplain writes, "1 have
heard men praying in the line when
I wished they would swear instead,
because their prayers, which were
purely selfish, expressed nothing but
a broken will and the horror of
death. It is a dreadful thing to see
men whimpering out prayers for per
sonal protection in a time of stress.
The hard-btten man beside him still
unbroken and unbeaten, swearing
through his teeth puts such a man to
shame • • • One cannot afford
prayers for personal safety in times
of stress; it is not what one ought
to be thinking about. * • • That
is the very essence of the Spirit of
Christ: His job first. His pals next,
and Himself last, and, compared
with the other two, nowhere." This
parson drops into verse:
It ain't as I thinks 'E'll keep me
safe
While the other blokes goes down.
And it ain't as I wants to leave this
And wear an 'ero's crown:
It ain't for that as I says my pray-
When I goes to the attack;
But I pray that whatever comes my
I may never turn my back.
I leaves the matter of life and death
To the Lord as knows what's best.
And I pray that I still may play the
man
Whether I turns East or West.
I'd sooner that it were East, ye know,
To Blighty and my girl Sue.
I'd sooner be there, wi' the sun in
'er 'air
And the summer skies all blue.
But grant me. God, to do my bit,
And then, if I must turn West,
I'll be unashamed whey my name
is named.
And I'll find a soldier's rest."
The World's Super-Quest
Clearly, every teacher of religion
has a responsibility to state the es
sentials of faith in unmistable and
livable terms. All the unreal phrase
ology of the pulpit, "the language of
Canaan." as it has been called, and
all the nebulousness of thinking, and
the general tendency to substitute
"lessons" for truth and facts, must
gi\e way under the pressure of the
new day for genuineness and sim
plicity. We are bound to state
Christianity in terms that anybody
can grasp.
That is exactly what these two
great passages from the New Testa
ment do. if we let them have their
own way and meaning. Becoming
Christians means becoming disciples
of Jesus. "Disciples were simply
learners and followers. That is to
say. the people who thought so much
of Jesus tha* they gave up their own
ways in order to go His way, and to
be near Him, apd to accept His
method of looking at things, and to
be patterned after Him, and to catch
His spirit, gradually came to be call
ed Christians. At first, the Jesus
crowd were simply named followeers
of the Way, His way. '
Nothing more was necessary than
this. They did not have to pass a
theological examination, or accept a
system of theology. They merely
joined Christ. The number of these
grew so large, and the power of His
multiplied life became so great, that
it changed the whole world. Now
adays, the Jesus way is in a life and
death struggle with the heathen way.
Of a sudden, civilization has realized
that it has been called to enter upon
tile great quest. Wrapped up in the
issues of this war are all the great
social and economic and humanitar
ian issues that have lifted their lure
before the eyes of forward looking
mtn and women. When we erect
the Jesus way for the world by our
armies and our statecraft and our
newer, nobler mind, we shall have
established truly a way of life for
earth's remotest and neediest inhabi
tant.
The Greatest Call of All
As our enlisted hosts of best young
men have proved the lure and power
of a sublime call to a sacrificial serv
ice, so we may yet see a response,
on never, nobler scale, to the great
and virile call to walk the Jesus way,
to keep company with Him and His
friends, and to help carry on the
Work He came to do. For becoming
a Christian is no such small a thing
as joining a church, with the obliga
tion to attend a certain set of meet
ings, and to abstain from specified
practices, and to putter along, in a
smali-minded way, about a lot of
petty interests and petty tasks. It
means an enlistment, an entrance
upon the knightliest of all under
takings, an offering up of life itselr
for the holiest of goals, a dedication
of self to ends worth while.
Turning again to the meaty book
already quoted, I find one chaplain
saying, "At last, I believe, we know
what Jeesus stands for. Prophets and
kings have desired to see the things
which we see in our day, and have
not seen them. We cannot placidly
go back to conventional Christianity
—the religion of respectability and
anxious avoidance of small faults. No
padre certainly, and probably no
man, can find rest for his soul when
the war is over in the religion of
parochial activities. We must have
a faith that is elemental; simple and
majestic and compelling. lam quite
prepared to see such large develop
ments in the coming form of Chris
tianity that the religion of our sons
and grandsons would seem to be al
most another faith if it were wit
nessed by our grandfathers."
Another chaplain plays on the
same string: "Fundamentally, Chris
tianity is a way of living ordinary
life, and is not to begin with a mere
matter either of abstinence or of at
tending church. A saved man. to
Christ's thought, Is a man living all
day and evvy day in.a certain way,
the way of a disciple. He is not a
man concerned' about his
own soul. He os primarily concerned
about serving Christ."
When the Bi gCliane* Comes
Mothers and fathers wi this side
of the water arj finding that the war
is making a tremendous change In
their sons who Lhave, been In service
"over there." The great enlistment
has made over "their life. They arc
bigger, and yet fclmpler. They'have
become more cosmopolitan, yet more
devoted than ever to the things of
home. An unwonted dignity, self
confidence and self-abnegation now
marks them. The war has made new
men of them.
Which is exactly what happens
when one becomes a follower of
Christ. It makes men and women
over. It takes the Simons, who are
merely some man's sons, and makes
rock-characters out of them. Also it
makes them warriors, sure of their
flag. As Paul said to the demon
possessed maiden. "In the name of
Jesus Christ, I order you out of her,"
so this Jesus-man finds himself call
ed to exercise all sorts of evil spirits
from the world. His is a virile gos
pel. attended by earthquaking ex
periences. All the vested interests
that misuse mankind are to be
fought by the fearless followers of
the Hero whom a cross could not
affright.
There ,is nothing grovelling or
self-contemptuous about Christian
ity. Recall how Paul and Silas with
stood the unjust officials who had
misused them. No man ever really
becomes a Christian without taking
on a new sense of dignity and man
hood. This matter of keeping com
pany with the strong Son of God, has
lifted up the heads of countless
sllr.ktng, despicable men. It makes
a man out of the drunkard and the
outcast. It takes the child 6f ease
and selfishness, and makes him a
gallant knight of the common weal.
In that fellowship heroes are made.
We rise to the height of our possi
bilities when we set ourselves along
side of the perfect Man, and try to
rise to the measures of the fullness
of His stature. Beginning the Chris
tian life is merely beginning to go
the way of Jesus, who to-day is
anew leading the made-over world.
The ablest are they whom God
has enabled.
The whole is only equal to the
sum of its parts. The ability of
Christian Endeavor is but the abili
ty of the single member multiplied.
The consecration of all Christian En
deavor can only be brought to pass
by the consecration of the individ
ual Fndeavorer.
Better one Mopes jvho Is conse
crated than a million rebellious Is
raelites.
The forces of wrong tremble
every time a talented person comes
out wholly for Christ.
If Joshua had not been the wise
and able man that he was, his con
secration would not have availed so
greatly for the God. Because
he weighed as a man he also weigh
ed mtghtly for God. Every strong
man who enlists on the side of the
Lord equals a legion of commonplace
followers.
There is no failure for consecra
tion. And there can be no success
short of consecration. The vast
numbers and overflowing enthusiasm
a , nc *. admirable organization of the
Christian Endeavor movement are
not enough to give it success. But
with the spirit of humble consecra
tion, all things are possible to it.
The finer the engine the more im
portant the fire.
Paul's consecration probably did
not exceed that of the other apos
tles. But his ability did, and
therefore he was the greatest of the
founders of our faith. In him we see
a striking example of what God can
do with an able man whose talents
are consecrated.
Consecration is another way of
spelling success. Until our abilities
are made over to Christ they can
bring only failure.
Special talents are dangerous.
The genius is always beset by perils
of wiiich his untalented brother
knows nothing. 'When a young per
son begins to succeed he needs the
greatest wisdom to keep him from
blunders and failures. Ability is
never safe until it is consecrated to
God. But when He Is made king
over a life its future is sure success.
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Scruntoii, Pa.—Frank M. Wymbs,
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seven months to force Wymbs to go
to Camp Meade, city draft board
No. 5, comprised of former Mayor
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navy department discharge Wymbs
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