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8 THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1920 [Wanted: Men!9 Sermons Attract Big Audi- tencesto Baptist Church: First Topic, 'Joseph* 0 The largest audience in the history of the Wilmette Baptist church heard, last Sunday, the first of a series of sermons by the pastor, Rev. Francis C. Stifler on the general theme: Wanted: Men! The first sermon of the series dealt with Jo- seph, the man who saved his race. Extracts from this popular sermon are published herewith. The second sermon of the series wlil be preached on Sunday, October 10, on the topic: Moses the man who liberated his race. COURSEâ€"WANTED: MEN! TOPICâ€"JOSEPH THE MAN WHO SAVED HIS RACE Every age has its sensationalists. We must not think that Henry Ford With his Peace Ship or his dramatic -Sitfio-HfreefBegt that the price of his cars had dropped when everything else was soaring is a new phenome- non under the sun. Years and years ago there was in the staid and court- ly city of Athens an ugly little man whose name was Diogenes. One day at high noon he appeared with a lantern on the street. He was peer- ing into the corners and under the Steps of the houses. Of course the proud and well-groomed Athenians gathered their skirts about them and passed him in scorn. "He was crazy". One man accosted himâ€" "What are you looking for my friend?" Old Diogenes answered: "A man; I'm looking for a man." The streets of Athens were crowded but not with what Diogenes called men. There were merchants and lawyers and priests and sculptors and laborers and artisansâ€"but not a man ! The tribe of Diogenes is large to- day. The whole world is hunting in broad daylight for men. The streets are filled with human beings but the schools and pulpits and railroads and banks and factories and farms are all crying for men. Where are the men to come from? The Chris- tian church is the only institution that I know of that is doing an ex- clusive business in making men. Here is a firm that has been at it for nineteen hundred years. Enterpris- es of every sort have come and gone in that timeâ€"governments have been born, have lived their day and per- ishedâ€"systems of thought have flourished for a while and faded out â- ^wars have rocked the nations but the demand for the product of the church has been constant and so she has not failed. Throughout all these years she has sought to meet the world's feverish demand for men. A man is the only great thing in God's universe. He is made in the image of God as nothing else is. His powers .seem limitlessâ€""What is man that Thou art mindful of him, Thou hast made him little lower than t angels and hast crowned him with honor and glory; Thou hast given him dominion over all the works of Thy hands and set all things under his feet." Economic conditions have had a big hand in making historyâ€"they have meant the migration of races and the planting of new civilizations. The God of War has strutted out on the stage of the world's affairs at regular intervals and has seemed to completely shift the scenesâ€"but no one of us who has read of Abraham or Moses or Alexander or Caesar or Luther or Calvin or Columbns or Washington or Confucsius or Gara- baldi or Gustavus Adolphus or Ab- raham Lincoln but knows that wars' famines, pestilences, high prices or scientific discoveries has in any measure influenced the makings of history, compared to that which emanates from the soul of a truly great man. The church is doing its whole duty when it confines itself to the task of helping God to make men like it. It does it when it takes them in the Sunday schools and trains the un- folding virtues into strength. It does it when it rescues wrecks upon the road who have abused their â- manhood. It does it when it flays the tyrant of politics or industry or commerce who would crush his fel- low. It does it as it builds the home, insists upon the truth, makes wars against the robbers of mens' souls and heals the sick. To this end the church holds be- fore the world a man. How little we know of the material surround- ings of Jesus. The New Testament writers were not interested in "his stature or. his clothes, or the houses he lived in. He had none of those things with which biographers are wont to deal in many chapters. He did no great work in war or art. or literature or commerce. He had no prestige of wealth, and no re- putation for learning. He was born in a stable, worked in a carpenter shop, taught as a free lance for three years, and was then executed as a criminal. What was there about him that interested the New Testa- ment writers ? He was a man! They want us to catch the beat of his heart, the breadth of his sympathies. his adamantine sense of honor, and to swing in the orbit of his ideas. With one accord they cry, as Pilate did, "Behold the man." They want us to know how this perfect man look- ed at things, how he felt toward things, and how things affected him. And around their slender teachings has grown the great Christian church, interested primarily in Him. Around Him has grown a great pro- fession in which I proudly boast of membership, that gives its lifetime to a study of and an interpretation of }>!c mjnlinn/) A «-/->f>r>/4 TJ;~~ U-.-____..... a great civilization where slaves have now their freedom, and women their rightful place, where justice grows in strength, and peace is the goal that all men seek. The Bible is the book of the church. By it and its teachings the church rises or falls. The Bible is called God's book, and rightly so. It is also man's book. It is a book of men. It advances no rigid moral code. It sets no standard of moral weights and measures. It forms no class. It calls for no set economic balance. It flows deep below all this. It talks of mei. As we start out then on a new year of conquest for Christ and his Church there is nothing that could be more strictly pertinent than to study some of the lives in God's book of great men. As we study them we shall let them point toward the Master and as we study them we shall also let them cast their light upon the conditions about us, condi- tions that reek with pride and sus- picion and greed. We are to speak today of Josephâ€" the man who saved his race. There is no more complete biography in the Bible than that of Joseph, Not of Abraham, nor Mosses, nor David nor Paul not even of Jesus have we so unbroken a story of the unfolding life as we have of Joseph. That man has lost his interest in life at i best who cannot with eager relish read the 37th and the 39th to the 50th chapters of Genesis which gives this thrilling life of Joseph. In that dramatic* scene in the 45th chapter Joseph says to his brothers as he reveals himself to them: "God did send me before you to preserve life." % Let this be our text. Gen. 45:5. Jo- seph recognized in himself a savior of his race. It pleases the fancy to trace the incidental analogies be- tween the life of Joseph in this role of savior and that of the Lord Christ himself. "As our God, so Joseph was the beloved of his father, sent by him to visit his brethren and see after their well-being, was seized and sold by them to strangers, and thus rais- ed to be their savior and the savior of the world." Let us look at Josephâ€"the man who saved his raceâ€"at three points in his life: 1. Let us look at him in the pit. Students' of Eastern shepherd life tell us that this pit was ong of those often seen in that country, dug as reservoirs for water to be used in the dry season of the year. The pit was narrow at the mouth so as to be easily covered with a single stone, then gradually widened to form a large subterranean room. The story runs on so fast we may never have stopped to consider Joseph, the 17 year old boy, in such a pit. It is dark^and slimy, filled with unseen creeping creatures. Outside he could hear his gloating brothers as they devoured the food he had brought them. Here is a situation that could madden the best balanced mind or bring the blankness of idiocy upon it. But let us observe that Joseph through the slender hole at the top of the well could see the starsâ€" thos eleven stars of which he had dreamedâ€"and that in all his li£e he was the sort of man who looked at them. Men can take anything away from you but your ideals. You can keep those if you want to. They may seem as useless as the few stars that peeped through the slender opening upon Joseph appeared to him to be. Hvcry one of us cones v- f<;iie time to the place where he is tempted to discard his ideals When they are gone, manhood is out of reach. May I be permitted*to give you a bit of personal history. In 1906 I came to Chicago to begin my business career. I had just graduated from a great eastern university. I had been an honor man in my class. I had enjoy- GEORGE STUMP TENOR Taachar of Singinf Assistant to Frantz Protchowsky 71S Fine Arts Bid*. CHICACO TaUphona: Harrison 4031 »»»»»*»»»»»** Or. Charles E. Geiste Otteopahtic Phyi Phana Wil 2052 1 ISt Wilaatto At a Residence Phone 71C-J mamMausaanmnmamaam ed certain distinction in the com- mencement program. My picture had been in the papers. I had re- ceived an amnful of letters and con- gratulations and many gifts. I was full of ideals. Surely the world had been waiting for just such a person as I? Like Joseph I had dreamed by day and night ho wmen should gladly do honor to me as I strode the paths of world leadership! Then one day I found myself pre- sented with a little metal-bound card with a number on it. This I was told was the most valuable thing I possessed. It identified me in the plant. It was my number. It was the number I should punch on the time clock, morning, noon and night. And 1 was to sit here, yes right here in a row with twenty othersâ€"mostly inferior looking boys and giddy, shallow girls. I was to take this file of greasy yellow cards and note the totals of the figures in this particular column and transfer them on to this sheet. I was to do this from 8:30 A. M. to 12:00 and from 1:00 to 5:00. Just this and nothing else. I, a grad- uate of a great eastern institution of learning. I felt as though someone had taken the garland of honor and preferment from my neck and clamp- ed there in its place the great heavy iron collar of the slave. Those around me engaged at the same tasks seemed happy and contented, but Iâ€" I could not stand it!â€" I began to think it a mistake that I was in the world at allâ€"like Job I cursed the day that I was born. I went to the man who hired me. He listened and then he made a great mistake. He changed my work and gave me some- thing more congenial. He had done better to dismiss me. What I lack to- day of perfect manhood is chargeable in part to his account. For to have stayed where I was would have been the best road to character. This is the mould in which character is formed. We all need to be buried for a while where only the stars can give us promise. Men have to learn that humanity and the ambition that seeks great thingsâ€" but not for themselvesâ€"are the real qualities of manhood. Men do not become humble by being told to become so, or even by knowing it that they ought to be so. We can only attain to the greatness of humility by experiences where sometimes alt but our ideals is taken from us. The Joseph we meet on the 45th chapter who weeps and embraces his brothers is a different Joseph from the boy who told tales on his half- brothers and arrogantly informed the whole family that he would one day be ruler over them all. But his ideals had not changed. Now he was ruler over all but in a spirit of saviorhood which hard experience had wrought out. Just so was Jesus made the savior of the world. It is through the fellowship of his sufferings that we acknowledge his Lordship and his Saviorhood. Except a man die he cannot live, but his ideals are his guide. $n the long run the world belongs to the idealist. "The ultim- ate shaping of the world's life is in the hands of men who walk the busy streets and dusty lanes with their feet*on the ground but with their headrs and their hearts among the stars." Such was Joseph. 2. Look at Joseph in prison. He was there on an unjust accusation. He deserved something better. He deserved the best, in fact. For he had been firm in the face of temp- tation and faithful to his trust. The world for him was all awry. Right was on the scaffold and wrong on the throne. I can hear the modern would-be Josephs, men who have al- ways done the right, chafing in their prison of social injustice today. They are paying high taxes because some big grafters are dodging theirs. They are billed $20 a ton for coal because some eastern operators are manipu- lating the situation for big profits. They are paying exorbitant prices for food because some dealers some- where are hoarding it. That is all true: just as true as the complaints tha): Joseph might have made. But that was not Joseph's way. It is not the way that makes for manhood and saviorhood. Plump goes Joseph into the damp muddy floor of the Egyptian prison cell_"A dirty Hebrew slave who tried to ruin his master's home". Does he lie there and whine out his innocence? No, he is on his feet in a moment. He is in prison, yes. He is a victim of circumstances that reek with injustice but he will make the most of it all. He will be the best prisoner of all Egypt. Others may falsely accuse but he will not darken the name of a single soul. He might have told the truth about Potipher's wife, and brought shame upon Potipher. But Potipher was an hon- orable man. Why ruin him? There was plenty of good to be done in that prison. There is always elbow room in the world where your lot is cast, no matter how wrong things areâ€"always room to do men good. Keep doing itâ€"you never can make a mistake on that road. There are no ditches on either side. Keep building manhood by good deeds. Leave the rest to God. Joseph w^s the direct descendant of Abraham and he inherited some of his great grandfather's faith. Unfortunate circumstances are utterly unable to keep a man down if in the spirit of faith he persists in doing good. What cur nation needs today is more men who will take hold of con- ditions as they find them, although rank with injustice, and make the most of them. Employers with em- ployes who are making unjust de- mand* employes with employers who are hedging them, inâ€"there is noth- ing that will so melt cold hearts and dear out evil desires as good works. This was Joseph and his way. 3. Look at Joseph in the seat of powerj. His administration as the governor of a great nation was guid- ed first by the needs of his own peo- ple and then by the needs of all the nations. He looked upon Egypt as the savior nation in a day of world distress. How easy would it have been for Joseph to say to Syriaâ€"^ "You send your armies against us once. Now we will sit by and laugh and watch you starve." Or he might have said to Nineveh, "You have bee,n pouring your people into Egypt until they have everwhelmed us in their huddling filth. We are feeding enough of your Ninevite laborers. The rest of you may starve." He might have said to Tyre, "You have long been stealing our trade from us, now we will let you languish in hunger while we steal it back." Ah! But he didn't say these things â€"not Joseph. He was merciful. Cursed are the unmerciful for they shall never obtain mercy in the day of their need. This is the ugly back- side of one of the Beatitudes. Jesus exalted neighborliness. He gave the picture of a neighbor in lines that no contrivance of sin can erase or level down. The neighbor is the man or the nation who helps any other man or nation when it is in need,â€" no matter how estranged they may have been beforeâ€"no matter how dangerous the pathway is where the ministry must be givenâ€"no matter how important be the business at hand when the need is discovered. 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