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AMOS AND HOSEA-TWO

REMARKABLE MEN The Rev. P. Jenkins Preaches At St. John's

[Bishop Hall was in Canton dered. The beginning of the end over the

of Israel as a state, has come. Of week-end and, at his special instance, the Rev. P. Jen-Hosea's. circumstances we know kins of the Church, Missionary So- but little-that tle is tragic ciety preached at St. Jolin's Cathe- After his wife, Gomer. had given drat on Sunday evening.]

"Many were the forms and fashions in which God spoke of old to our fathers by the pro- phets." (Monatt.)

birth to three children she desert- ed him to become the mistress of a new lover. Gomer's new lover seems to have tired of her after but a short time, and Hosea dis- The task assigned to me is to covers that she. Is being treated attempt to give you some sort of as a lave. He taken the price introduction to two very remark of a slave, thirty shekels of silver, able men. Amos and Hosea We buys her for himself and gives, her must think for a moment of the the opportunity of making a new situation in Irael in their day. start. In all this he sees a parable For over half a century Israel had' of God's dealings with Israel. I

· miffared' cruelly at the hands of can only stress die point, God Syria. All their land east of" Jor- is a God of · lovingkindness. He dan had been taken from them, "uses a very tender word one that humiliation had been heaped on expresses the feelings of a devoted humiliation. Thel Jeroboam husband for his wife. He says: comes to the throne and things there. God is like that. God never change. For one thing: Syria had į giyes up a man as hopeless, His been" weakened by the power of i tender mercies know no. limit. Assyria, for another Jeroboam was.} How did Amos, "Hosea and the a military genius. He defeated other prophets come bý their Syria

and restored "all the old message to the world? There Iles boundaries to Israel. Then follow the ultimate problem of all re- ed a long period of peace and vealed religion. No doubt the prosperity Treedom from the particular form their message took fear of invasion gave opportunity was conditioned by the circum- for the culture of commerce and stances of their lives and callings. arts. A newly rich class sprang But to them their faith was into existence, and it was not free neither a result of their own re- from the luzury, conceit, and con- flection nor an inference drawn tempt for others so often found from "a study of the world. They in that class in all ages and in did not fall into the trap of sup- all lands. Justice was sold to the poslug that man is the measure. highest bidded. Merchants were of all things." Dr. J. Skinner, one dishonest. Peasant farmers were of the best modern writers on the evicted from their lands and re- prophets, decides that there are duced to beggary or slavery while three features which differentiate their masters passed their the religions experience of the days "olling on ivory diwans, prophets from the normal-com- sprawling on their couches....... munion of a Christian man with crooning to the music of the lute God. (1) They are conscious of ......lapping wine by the bowlful being intermediaries between God and the nation. The message ......with never a thought for the bleeding wounds of the nation" they deliver in God's name has The fine ladles of Israel were been addresses not to them per worse than their husbands, Amos sonally but to the nation in its describes them as "overled kine corporate capacity. "The Lord of Bashan.”

took me from the flock; the Lord said to me. Go and prophesy to my people Israel" is the mandate under which every prophet work-

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Twelve miles south of Jerusalem was the ttle village of Tekoa. It was the kind of place men would describe 35. God-forsaken—a¦ed (2) They were endowed with dreary wilderness. Yet it seems to remarkable insight into the pro- have been a suitable rearing vidential significance of the poll- ground for an odd kind of sheep tical events of the time. For us prized for their long wool, a valued | contemporary history is an enigma. commodity of the world's markets. It is a precarious proceeding to and it was Amos's home. He des attempt to interpret the divine cribes himself as a shepherd of meaning of the events unfolding these sheep, and also as a dresser themselves before

our eyés. of wild ng trees. These trees pro- "God", says Victor Hugo, "makes duced a poor insipid fruit eaten visible to men His will in events, only by the poorest, so that we an obscure text, written in a may reasonably suppose that Amos mysterious language. Men make was not a possessor of this world's "their translations of it forthwith. goods. He had something far hasty translations, full of faults, greater a keen eye for spiritual omissions and misreadings. Very values, a knowledge of God un- few minds comprehend the divine surpassed in his day. He stands tongue. The most sagacions, the out in the history of religious | most clear, the most profound, thought as the first of that long decipher slowly; and when they and remarkable line, "the writing arrive with their text, the need prophets of Israel”

has long gone by: there are al- We Christians rightly regard ready twenty translations in the Jesus Christ as the climax of market place." Nothing could be God's revelation of Himself to the less true of the prophets. world. But he did not come as are first on the spot, even before a bolt from the blue. He came the events and discern the mind as 8. Faul tells us in the fullness of God in what He is about to of time," or as we might say "at I do. (3) The experience of the the right moment." He took up prophet contains a sub-conscious the threads of the prophetic work, element appearing chiefly in the and carried it to completion, in form of visions, which is not char- that we can not imagine a higher acteristic of normal religious life. revelation of God than one given | It is no use to say that the vision in terms of a perfect personality. is simply a literary device. Thus as we value Him we shall value the work He took for grant- ed, the foundation on which He built.

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any case whatever we may think the claim to have had a vision was taken seriously by the pro- phet's contemporaries.

It is of but little use merely to Moses is reported to have ex affirm belief in God, and leave it pressed the wish that all the at that. Everybody must believe Lord's people were prophets and in God, that is to say they must indeed in some measure we must believe in a power of some kind be if we are to grasp their message. behind the Universe, That, mat- | The gifts-and-powers God gave, to ters not one lote. What does mat- | the prophets in so eminent a de- ter, and matter tremendously, 18 gree »are in ga measure, öura too, the kind of God we believe in. if it were bot so they would have Amos's `contemporaries believed in spoken in vain. But they are God. They had a religion. They gifts and powers that may be were willing to lavish a great ort neglected or cultivated. If we of their wealth on it. But it did spend sixteen hours a day on work not get them very far, for though and pleasure and but a few, brief they worshipped they worshippe.! minutes, 'If even that, on the things the wrong kind of God. They of the Spirit shall we complain worshipped a "god" satisfied with if these things come to have no gorgeous ceremonial and abundant meaning for us, or that the eyes animal sacrifices. It was a wor-of our soul are dull? ship that could hang together with During the season of Advent we a callous grinding of the faces are specially hidden to think of The foundation

of the poor. It was a worship the "Kingdom."

that could and expression in acts of gross sensuality,

of the "Kingdom" was in great measure laid by the Prophets of Amos breaks in on it all with Israel. It is a spiritual: treasure. what must have seemed strange. It is the pearl of great price. It and new doctrine. On their re- is something we find and yet some.. gion he pours scorn. He sacrifles thing we must buy. Its beauty their lack of humanity. He tells and wonder; may gradually dawn them the result of their mode" of } upon us; or its beauty and wonder life and worship will be the de- may flash upón us with irrésistible struction of the nation. He tells glory. In any case "if we would them that God, the real God, is make it our own the price must not interested in their sacrifices, be paid: The man who found the but that what He demands, since pearl of Great Price went and sold He is a righteous God, is that all that he had and bought it. "justice roll down like waters, and Many people find their religion righteousness like a perennial unsatisfactory. Is the secret here? stream," and

Swede They may in a moment of emotion When we turn to Hosea we and see something of the beauty, and the social, and “spiritual... påck- wonder of the Kingdom but thes ground very much the same, but never get to the point of making the political conditions have the necessary murrender. The changed. Jeroboam is dead. A Kingdom demands the complete period of anarchy has set in. capitulation of the central citadel Rival generals nght or intrigue for of our self. Is means we let God the throne. Within the space of into our life. And God comes in seven years four kings are mur- on His own terms-to rule.

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