THE OLDNESS OF NEWEST SOCIALISM By WILLIAM T. KLLIS The International Sunday School Lesson for July 0 Is "The Church: Its Life and Work."—Acts 2:37-47; I. Tlicss. 5:11-15. Full Circle swing the wheel. All the world is agog over the new mood of Socialism that is expressing itself in violent forms in certain centers which hold public attention. Mil lions of people sincerely believe that this whole basic idea of a recon structed social order is entirely new. They assume that Socialism if so indefinite word be permissible is a discovery of recent years. Yet hene we come upon a picture of the first company of Christian be lievers, bent upon realizing complete , communism— selling their individual J possesions and having all things n ' common, and moving a toge her-in a mood of high spiritual exaltation. We might almost say that the C * tian church began as an experiment ln To C <iay * the church is the world's best "bulwark in PosUions^to be right? right and the Bolshevist theories wrong . an _ We look to the story tor swer. Th° c t . on 0 f the friends and is the o^° g ' t^bUshc(l it to carry of Jesus. i m ission. He pro on his message an p ap tism. and vided an y func 'tlon. or sacra * a commemorative Lo rd s Sup mcnt, the eucharist. {o i, o wers pcr . m addition, all n of were characterized by tn an<l prayer: and they by commandment hip and to together t Jpsus his hear remninscences ords from llfe . bis work "d h j 7; him those who had in the flesh. A mysterious Of the church was the my and supernational decent tQ Holy Spirit re h t jesus himself the disciples all in bad been when alive spirer, present !• r en . Tried moments. "hi w 1 is 6 measTred' and dated I" *" ch an Hv Pentecostal Visitation, th * real- Jerusalem church came to dominant. Men and women that thev were Christians touched bv the divine fire, aware of their acceptance by Christ, made evcry; thing else seem relativelyunimp ant Bv the accession of 3.000 re cruits, under the stimulus of Peter great sermon, they were suddenly confronted with a new sense of their solidarity as Christians. Jhey came, as it were, a special commun itv within the city—and the happiest sweetest-spirited. cleanest living section of the population. Under the impulsion of the new emotion, they decide to pool thelr possesions. It was unthinkable to them that there should he social de- , grees or classes among the brethren. As members of one great family-, the young Christian church, they decided to hold all things in com mon. The poor shared the property of the rich; the rich had the volun tary help of the poor. It was a case of emulation in self sacrifice and in affectionate service. In eat ing and drinking, in work and in worship there was a simpHcty of thankfulness and mutuality such as . the self-seeking world had never i I seen before. Significantly, we hear little more about the economic aspect of this experiment in socialism. Had the zeal of the disciples carried them to impracticable lengths? Soon we read of Paul's taking up a collec tion for the help of the mother church at Jerusalem: the commu nity had evidently gone on to the rocks economically. Communism has revived in various ways in the church throughout the succeeding centuries, as in the monastic orders and in certain groups of live-minded Christians, but communism is not a . teaching of any considerable section j of the church to-day. Something Better Than Socialism | This is an arresting situation, and | it will this week receive widespread i study by millions of alert persons " who follow the International Les sons, keep to discern the present ap- | plications of Scripture. Either the first group of Jerusalem Christians overstressed the social and economic side of their discipleship. or else ex pressed it in a mistaken form, or the j Christian Church as a whole has j been guilty of a profound error and j apostasy. Let us see. Forms are incidental and transi tory: the spirit is essential and j abiding. Jesus himself laid down I that principle. The world needed a I scheme of communism less than it j needed a new disposition of genuine brotherhood. Christ did not come to establish any special form of so cial order, communism or aristoc racy, any more than he came to set up a distinctive form of government, as the republican or the monarchial. Instead, he put into the hearts of his people a new fire of divine love for their kind. His followers have always been known for their good i will toward men. They do good to i all men, and especially to such as \ are of the household of the faith, j Jesus rrratfs ;md ts ,tt> r create society. Because becoming a Christian is! an individual, rather than a mass | matter, and because the world ever ' . has greater need of a vitalized per \ sonalities than of new institutions, ! the stamp of Scriptural approval is ; 1 not given to that first impulsive ef- j fort at Communism, other than to I record the fact. The church is a j living organism, and not a static ! construction. Her members have shaped and reshaped the world, and are still doing so. Nevertheless, the Christian interest is primarily in the individual man or woman. ' Institutions only incidentally mould people; people shape institu tions. We find that into the early church, even during the first blush j of Its experiment in communism, there crept into the fellowship those, like Ananias and Sapphira. who ] really did not belong within the | church. They prefigured the doom i of any society which could be em ployed for purposes of self explolta- I tlon by designing persons. In Itus ¥ tr sia, it is the designing self-seekers, the crafty politicians after power and privilege and wealth, who have THURSDAY EVENING, capitalized and perverted the sim ple and generous instincts of the Russian masses, whose Christian im pulses m&de them ready for any thing that called itself brotherhood or democracy. "Russia, like the rest of the world, as it comes under the sway of in telligent Christianity, will find itself developing a noble and altruistic in dividualism. wherein each is his best self in order that he may best serve others. That is better than Social ism. Good Will of tlic Good Sometimes the church has become so institutionalized that she has rep resented classes, rather than the- en tire mass of mankind. Therein she has fallen short of her true mission as Christ's Church. Whenever the church fails to be instantly sensi tive to every cry of human need .she thereby shows that she has ceased to be sensitive to the impulsion of her Master's Spirit. If at any time she fails to be in the forefront of movements for the amelioration or reconstruction of the social order, she thereby comes short of the di vine office. The church is not the handmaiden of Things As They Are: she is the herald of Things As They Ought To Be. To great social and economic functions the church is constantly fulfilling though these, it must ever be remembered, are subordinate to her divine mission of leading men to personal salvation through Christ. One is to create within'her self a fraternity of friends of God. who shall be a refuge and an incen tive to all people everywhere. There is no mistaking the teaching that the Bible designs the Christian tie to be the strongest tie. It should mean more to a man to be a Chris tion than to be a Mason or an Elk or a Democrat or a Granger. The goodly fellowship of Christians should be the greatest social bond— as it really is to-day. Thank God for the billions of people who have their social relations almost wholly with in their churches, for that ' society is wholesome, simple, mutually help ful. To belong to church should mean, in all practical ways, more than to belong to any other body in existence. In the second place, the church permeates and leavens the world with people of good will. This has been the greatest indirect service of Christianity to the race. Who have dreamed the great dreams of world peace and of world fraternity? The t. hristian nations, and -the men in them who have been avowedly Christian disciples. 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Behind the Better Day Beyond question, the tides of our times have set in strongly toward social changes of a radical nature. Riding on those tides are sinister pirate craft. Nevertheless the move ment is good and of God. No honest person, with a drop of blood of sac rifice and unselfishness in his veins, will do other than cheer the pro gress of improvement in human re lationship. Let all changes for the better come, and be accelerated. But let them be changes born of good will, and of a sincere desire for the welfare of all men everywhere. So long as change brings us closer to genuine brotherhood, it is to be wel comed and aided, whatever the cost. There is no price we are not pre pared to pay for the realization of a reign of love among all people. In a time like the present, the church, which is the greatest force in the world, should throw herself wholeheartedly into a realization of whatever is Christian in the day's social movement. • Likewise, she should fearlessly oppose whatsoever is spurious and hurtful." As she should be the preponent of Chris tian democracy, and of justice and liberty to the limit, so she should also be the opponent of Bolshevism and of class hatred and of social spoliation. Let no well-meaning sentimentalist make the mistake of welcoming anarchy and ill-will, for these are un-Christian. A fresh pur suit of the high ethical standards of the church will save the world from the horrors of a reign of destructive license and intolerance. When we strengthen the Christian Church ln her purity, we are strengthening the causes of man's social welfare and of universal progress; as well as of the glory of God. Poles Began Counter Attack On Big Front Boris, July 3.—The Polish forces on Saturday started a counteroffen sive along the whole Sallclan-Vol hynian front, according to advices from Warsaw. The Poles claim that they have everywhere broken the Ukrainian resistance, and that the Lemberg-Halicz-Stanlslau railway line Is again in Polish hands. &AIUEUBBURG TELEGRAPH DR. ANNA SHAW DIES, AGED 71YRS. Pioneer Suffrage Leader Suc cumbs to Pneumonia Attack By Associated Press. Phindelphia. July 3. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman's Suf frage Association, died at her home In Moylan, Pa., near here, at 7 o'clock last evening. She was 71 years old. Dr. Shaw also was chairman of the Woman's committee of the Council of National Defense and recently, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for her work during the war. 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Dr. Shaw long had been prominently identified with the woman suffrag* movement and was president of tho National American Woman Suffrage Association consecutively for eleven years. In 1915 she declined a renoml nation and was then elected honorary president. She had spoken in every State in the Union, before many State legislatures and committees of both houses of Congress in the Interest of suffrage. She was a member of the International Woman Suffrage Alli ance. International Council of Wo men. League to Enforce Peace and National Society for Broader Educa tion. Dr. Shaw was born in New Castle on-Tyne, England, and was brought to America by her parents when four years of age. Federal Land Banks Violate Law, Declares McFadden, of Penna. By Antedated Press. Wnahlngton. July S.—Violation of the law regarding farm loan* *ai charged against the Federal land banks "as guided and conlroH-i by the Federal farm loan board.'* ly Kepreee ntatlvc McFadden. Republi can. 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