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Columbia extremely grave. | herds fed the FIXING T PEOPLE'S FLI | The International Sunday Sc hool Lesson for June 8th Is: | 'Ezekiel Encourages the Exiles."--Psaim 134: 1-6; Eze kiel 34. Two business men, my hosts in an community churches, were talking | . ¢ j *tomobile, riding to a convention of | about their pastor. Nothing was said | about his_preaching ability, but the I i theme was "He's a real man," In all my life I had never heard men grow so enthusiastic about their minister--his helpfulness, his tirelessness, his human. looking at things. To him they credit- ed the condition in their new suburb, with its one church having members of seventeen different creeds, and its gen- erous auditorium unable to contain the congregations. From these ardent laymen, and oth- ers, I learned that the minister sup- ports himself as a business man, but preaches twice on Sunday and conducts the midweek prayer meeting; and dir- ects the church's activities. When he asked his own denomination to instal him as pastor over this community zealous for sectarian advantage. All of which is a rather long intro- Juction to the use of the simple illus- ! tration of the condition of that one | community church. I found the people | ! were all signs of real fellowship; the overflowing with good spirits;* there singing by choir and congregation of old Gospel hymns quite thrilled a visi- tor; and there was every evidence that here was a congregation, containing an unusual proportion of men united, happy, busy and purposeful. It was a revelation of what may be done by one Christian leader; for "like priest, like people." The shepherd determines the condition of the flock. And that is the nub of this Lesson; the Prophet Ezekiel, thundering the word of Jehovah, pictured the plight of Judah in exile as entirely the fault of the shepherds. An Arraignment of Bad Shepherds. Paraphrasing this vivid figure of Ezekiel, one of the old church writers delivered this famous epigram: *'In olden times we had golden bishops with wooden croziers, and the shep- sheep; now we have wooden bishops, with golden croziers, and the sheep feed the shepherds." The Ezekiel version is: "Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed them- selves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?" Any troubled student of the trend of the times in modern Christianity, with the incredible increase of secretary- ships and salaried officials, and with the swift multiplication of institutions and organizations, may fortify his con- victions by reading this thirty-fourth chapter of Ezekiel's Prophecy. Every teachers' association, and every minis- terial "union or conference, could pro- fitably devote a session or a season to its study. Three sheep and shepherd chapters | of the Bible--the Twenty-third Psalm, the thirty-fourth chapter of Ezekiel, and the tenth chapter of Joln's Gos- pel--should be read and considered to- gether, in connection with the present lesson. All three are of extraordinary literary beauty, and of searching spi- ritual significance. There is no dodging the fact that in our assigned text, Ezekiel, who was perhaps the most pictorial of the pro- phets, the best master of imagery, makes a terrific arraignment of the spi- ritual and civil leaders of the Jews. He unsparingly lays the responsibility for the fate of the exiles upon the shep- herds who had been faithless. This old prophet, who himself dwelt neareBaby- lon along, with his exiled compatriots, found his soul stirred within him; and like Jesus, "when He saw the multi- tudes, He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd." This spirit of compas- sion, this shepherd sense, is the hall- mark of every truly great servant of men. Prophets and Politics. Small and sentimentalizing concep- tions of Christianity give no heed to this large shepherd-prophet function of leadership. They are incapable of the blazing indignation and fearless condemnation which characterifed the utterances of Jesus and of the earlier Hebrew seers. Religion/is an inoffen- sive and passive thing 'with these sac- charine saints; they shrink from hunt- ing the feelings of even Satan himself. Whereas the Bible teaching is clear that the leader with a "Thus saith the Lord" on his lips should cry' aloud and spare not. A If wi low the example of Ezekiel, we must tay the responsibilities for the social, political and economic ills of our day squarely upon those who have been responsible for proclaiming God's truth and for teaching spiritual and moral standards. Some years ago a Philadelphia banker, who had been a "leading layman" in his denomination turned out to be a rogue, and commit- ted suicide, I wonder what were the thoughts of the preacher under whose word he had been sitting throughout a career of hypocrisy and crime? What is lacking in our pulpits, our schools, re- ligious and secular, our homes and our Christian social relations, that out from them can go boys and girls, men and women, to carry on as we know many are doing today? - This present course of studies in Old | Testament history and prophets will have missed its mark if it has not made clear that God's word has a direct and vital relation to all the affairs of life, public and private. Religion cannot be fenced off into pious practices of a 1 BLAME FOR A i By WILLIAM T. ELLIS ness, his leadership, his big way of| I, Sunday. The old prophets were bent upon applying the principles of God to national life, to civic life, to social life, to industrial life. Their contention was that Israel possessed no more of loyal- ty to Jehovah than the people display- ed in their everyday affairs. Mans con- duct is God's chief concern on earth. If the dynamic of religion is not applied to the ordinary expressions of life it is altogether powerless. The divine law that has been revealed is not for hea- ven, but for earth. Any recreancy thereto is primarily the responsibility of religious leaders. A stern doctrine that; but it is the lesson of this Lesson. | A Programme For Today. Inconstant and derelict as were the old Jews, they will not have been sent into exile in vain if they can but get their major message across to our own times. Their sins, their punishment, | their repentance and their prophecies | church, it refused to do so unless he i may save us for in their case even the would make the church denomination- | Ost superficial observer may see the al; therefore he secured ordination | three-fold word for today's perilous from another evangelical body less] Plight of the peoples. | This programme is not mere pious phraseology; it is more practicable than the Dawes plan for Europe. First of all it declares that there must be a | quickened sense of God in the hearts of men before the assorted outward forms | of mal-adjustment and oi wrong may | be made right. Nations and indivi- duals have lost the consciousnéss of | the reality and, authority of the living Lord. We have made idols of our own | wishes and impulses: we have set up in the holy places an image of God made | in our own likeness. Man-worship and mind worship are our Twentieth Cen- | tury Baalism. The simple, majestic, | masterful idea of God, a holy and ex-| alted Father, with a moral sense and| with ethical purposes, to Whom we are | every one responsible, must come back to its old place of primacy. i That implies, in the second place, | that the clear and explicit laws of Ga | must be obeyed. Thé "Thus saith the Lord" must take precedence over "I| want" or "I don't want." God must be God over all, else he is not God at all. | Plain, practical, workaday obedience | to the unquestioned will of=Jehovah, | such as the old prophets proclaimed, | must once' more become the master motive of life. Then, to end where we began, and to summarize 'the mighty word of Ezekiel which®s the Lesson text, the religious leaders must lead religiously. As the opening of Deborah's Song (Revised Version) expresses the truth, which is as pertinent today as when ut- tered in the long ago before ever Is- rael had a king: "For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, | Bless ye Jehovah." Shepherds must be faithful to their flocks, National cabinets and admin- istrations are important; but they are ultimately dependent upon the kind of leadership the people have in things spiritual. Politics and business and social life will inevitably be made night when all shepherds of the spirit func- | tion faithfully. = DODD'S "KIDNEY ~ ' Business is Good To-day business is good--Every day shows definite sus- tained progress. Savings Bank Deposits have increased since December by $12,552,769 or over 10%. Freight Car Loadings haye increased by 9.7% over a year ago. The movement of grain represented by cdsh receipts is 23.6% greater than a year ago. The balance of trade (that is excess of exports over imports) is 15.7% greater than a like period of last year. The Canadian Bank Clearings for the first four months of 1924 are 5.6% greater than during the same period of 1923. Hundreds of individual business houses have increased sales. In our own business, not an isolated case by any means, the months of January, February, March, April and May show substantial increases over the same period a year ago or any of the past three years. Take a trip down the Main Street of any leading city. People are not staying at home. They are buying from leaders who by their enterprise and thought have made it worth while for them to buy. True, business is not what it might be in some quarters. That is caused chiefly by lack of effort to make business better. From this same cause unemployment has developed in industries that should show improvement. 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