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Subject: Co-operation.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street, on the above theme, the Rev. Ira
Wemmell Henderson, the pastor, took as his text Ex. 17:12, "Moses’ hands
were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat
thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side,
and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going
down of the sun.”
And Joshua and the army of Israel, upon the field of conflict, co
operated. And Amalek and his host were discomforted.
The text and the attendant circumstances are illustrative of the law
of co-operation that rules in every phase of life. Without co-operation
life could not be maintained. It is a central necessity to the preservation
of the integrity of the world of men and of nature.
Moses relied upon God and God placed His confidence in Moses.
Mosee leaned upon Aaron and Hur for support. Joshua looked to Moses
for victory. The inter-relation of them all was inevitable. Their inter
dependence was natural. Their ability to co-operate with each other and
with God gave them the victory. Moses was essential to the success of the
movement. So was God. But not less essential was the faithful co-opera
tion of Aaron and Hur and Joshua and the army. Moses made no effort
to do Joshua’s work. Joshua reveals no desire to attempt the labors for
which Moses was inspired. Aaron and Hur stuck to the task to which God
had called them. The army followed its leaders with fidelity and effect.
No one tried to do the other man’s work. But each man did his own.
And*they did it with unanimity and with forcefulness. They co-operated. Each
did his best for the good of all, in his own way and in his own station.
And they were victorious in a hard fight.
Co-operation is the law of all life. Turn wheresoever you will and you
will observe the evidences of the working of the law. Color depends upon
the blazing luminaries that swing eternal in the heavens above. Utterly
remove the light and the differentiations that we call shades will disap
pear. The tree cannot germinate or bad or blossom or fructify or mature
alone. It is by the beneficent and self-sacrificing operations of the sun
and the wind and the dew and the rain and the earth and the night that
the tree can live. And if these fail to co-operate with timeliness and suf
ficiency the tree will die. If any one of them fails to do its part for a
time the life of the tree will be impoverished and impaired and its future
put in jeopardy. Not otherwise is it with man. Were it not for the co
operation of his fellows and of the natural order that is manifest about
him he could not long endure. For man is as dependent upon the co
operation of nature as is the tree. That which the tree needs he needs,
and more abundantly and insistently. That which the tree requires for
its preservation and sustentation he must have and more. For as his life
is more expansive than the life of the tree, so his requirements are more
varied. And that which writes itself as the law of the life of the man and
of the tree demands obedience in every sphere and phase, of life.
That which is true of life in the broad is true of life in its narrower
relations. It is true of commercial life. For the complex and marvellous
commercial society that exists in our day would not be without and de
pends absolutely upon the faithful and intelligent co-operation of every
department and every member that enters into its fabrication. Nothing
is more illustrative of the laws of interdependence and cc-operation than
trade. We sit down to our humblest meals only to be brought face to face
with the absolute dependence which we have placed, ordinarily uncon
sciously, upon multitudes of men and women, in the fields and the shops,
upon the railways and the seas, to secure and to provide and to deliver to
us the commonest necessities of life. Their co-operation gives us our
meals. Our co-operation offers them a chance tc labor and to live. Not
otherwise is it in mechanics. All movement is dependent upon co-opera
tion. And the slightest lack of co-operation upon the part of the simplest
and smallest essential portion of a mechanical device will mar the har
monious and perfect working of the whole and may render the mechanism,
regardless of its beauty or its design, useless and inefficient.. You may
build the mightiest press that the ingenuity and skill of man can devise
and construct, but If all its parts do not engage, if you fail to attach It to
the source of primal power, your press is as useless as thought it never
were. And so it is in military affairs. An army wins, if it wans at all,
because of the co-operation of divisions. Co-operation w r on for the Old
Guard and for Wellington deathless fame that night on the field at
Waterloo as the sun set upon the power and the imperial overlordship of
Napoleon. For the same spirit and law r of co-operation that sent Blucher
over the hills to the aid of the Iron Duke and snatched victory from the
face of impending disaster made the Old Guard rally with devotion and
splendid bravery about the standards of a defeated emperor and exact a
blood bought victory. Co-operation made it possible to write history
differently. Co-operation taught and enabled the heroes of a hundred
battlefields to die with glory upon the field of honor. Similarly, co-opera
tion is essential in our social life. No man can live apart from society.
He must live as related with it, dependent upon it, and obligated to it.
The good of each must be the concern of all, and the welfare of all the
solicitude of each. We must all do our part, or the fabric we have con
structed and of which we are the interior cannot endure. And the health
and perfection of our social system is in direct proportion to the co-opera
tion vf each and every individual factor in the social order toward the
preservation and intensification of the best and salient features that are
woven into the textile of our social order.
The law of co-operation is nowhere more impressively and gloriously
explicated than in the movements of the galaxies that, through endless
generations, course the heavens that are spread in matchless beauty by
the hand of God above our heads. The contemplation of what would
happen did the interdependence and inter-relation and interplay and inter
action of the forces and influences that maintain the equilibrium and con
trol the courses of the superheated bodies that crowd the heavens cease,
inspires awe. Ceaselessly, majestically, noiselessly, so far as we are
aware, they rush through space; each in its own orbit, each attending
strictly to the laws that are operative in its own career. The correlation of
forces that is active among them is the secret of their transcendant move
ment through the charted lanes that ramify the skies.
Co-operation is as necessary and effective in the forwarding of evil
as it is in the promulgation and propulsion of that which is good. It is the
watchword of every evil band and the hope of every evil design. Evil
must he compacted and allied to become largely effective. And the best of
organized forces to-day are to be found in the camp and army of those
whose god is the devil and whose ways take hold on hell. That is the
reason why evil triumphs against a righteous majority. That is why for
so long a few of the wicked have ruled the world of decent men and
women. The wicked know the value of co-operation. They know by ex
perience. They have proved its power. They are expert in the art and ex
ercise of combination. Co-operation of the reigning order of self-seeking
exploiters of the people kept feudalism alive as long as it lived, and with
out such combination it never could have lived at all. It was the com
bination and correlation of the forces of unbridled extravagance and of
unphilosophical temper that made Paris reek with blood in the days of the
Revolution. , . . .. ,
Nowhere is this co-operation and correlation and combination of men
and of motives, of ideas and of purposes, of influences and forces, more in
tlisnen«able than in the church of that living God who hath revealed Him
self unto us in Jesus Christ. It is prerequisite to any success whatsoever
that shall be of eternal import. It is elemental. And our co-operation as
Christians must be continuous, it must be for constructive as well as for
destructive service, it must be an augmenting force.
Co-operation must be continuous in our affairs as it is everywhere in
nature It cannot be spasmodic. It must be connected. It must be sub
-ec*- to regularity. Also it must be constructive. We are too prone to ally
ourselves to cry out to the world, "Thou shalt not.” We are slow to
nresent a program for constructive effort, to assume the labor of direction,
and to" strive "for the accomplishment of the result at which we aim. We
are too spasmodic. We do not keep at it. We fail to uprear as we should.
Our co-operation further should be augmentative. That is to say, that
under its exercise we ought to gain energy, kinetic and potential. The
more we co-operate the abler we should become, the more efficient we will
become.
The church of Jesus Christ can never do that supreme work to which
lipr Lord has called her until her members exercise that spirit and capacity
fnr ro-operation that we have stipulated as essential, among themselves,
ssn lon- as we magnify small things, so long as each the other’s work will
. thp while he leaves undone his own, so long as we quarrel and bicker
j <rrowl at the failings and fallibilities and incapacities of each other,
inn- as Joshuas want the labors of a Moses and the men and women
L panability and constructive capacity kick against the pricks of the call
- rod so long as we forget sympathy and courtesy and charity and pa
’so i on e; as we forget to minister the same favor and forgiveness to
1 ‘ brethren in the Lord that we administer to ourselves, we shall not
OI ‘ ir ..,, s ’ we must co-operate in love and forbearance, we must know
the strife of singlehearted fidelity and service for the common good
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OCT. NOV. DEC.
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Further, we need co-operation between the church and the com
munity. It will not do for us to shut ourselves apart from the ways and j
the concerns of the busy world. It is for us to transform the world, to
co-operate with every effort, however officered and however semi-ultimate,
that has for its purpose the elevation and betterment of the race; it is for
us to be interested actively, to carry the leaven of the Gospel of Christ into
the multifarious affairs of a complex civilization, to be lovingly, opcnlj,
positively interested in everything that makes for the weal of man.
And lastly, but by no means least, we need co-operation between pas
tors and peoples. Moses got weary, and he wa3 a man of unusual and
special privilege and power. Men of less power get weary, too. Even
get tired. Even shepherds grow fatigued. It is hard work to
draw a load of drones, to pacify and placate men and women who in the
grace and sonship of God should know better. Israel prevailed unto vie- j
tory when Aaron and Hur upheld the tired arms of Moses. Perhaps some
churches that are wondering why they do not prevail with God and men,
would so prevail, if a few Aarons and Ilurs would sustain the overloaded
forces of a ministerial Moses. Let us co-operate.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
ME NTS FOR OCT. 27 IIY THE
liEV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: Caleb’s Faithfulness Re
warded, Josh. 14:6-15—Golden
Text, Matt. 25:2.‘1—Memory
Verses, 7, B—Commentary.
Caleb’s reward is indicative of the
faithfulness of Jehovah to actualize
His promises. Caleb had been a care
ful and courageous investigator and
reporter in the days when Moses
wished to know of the character of
the land and the people of Canaan
(Cf. Lesson for September 1). He
had valiantly and consistently main
tained a spirit of optimism and of as
sistance to Moses when Israel’s days
were dark. God had promised him
that he should live to see the realiza
tion of his dreams, the fulfillment of
his prophecies, the fructifying of the
hopes of his people. And the prom
ise is kept.
God’s promises were effective in
the life of Caleb’ for the reason that
is stated in the fourteenth verse of
the lesson —“because he wholly fol
lowed the Lord God of Israel.” That
was the ground of promise. It was
the ground also for the realizing of
the promise. God makes few prom
ises to poor followers. There can be
no promises to those who refuse to
do His will. The promises of God
are many and beautiful and possible
of fulfillment in the lives of those
who, after the pattern of Caleb,
wholly followed the Lord' God. Ca
leb heard the voice of God because
he lived for God and within God, and
had confidence in Him. The prom
ises of Jehovah were completed for
him because he was steadfast in the
divine life and continued and ex
panded in his faith in God. Caleb
had an abiding belief in the integrity
of God. Therefore God was able to
speak plain words to him. The man
who doubts God never hears the sub
limest messages Jehovah sends to
men. Only the souls who believe on
Him, who trust Him, who obey Him,
who are faithful to Him, hear, or are
able to hear, the messages, the prom
ises, the confidences of God. It could
not bo otherwise. It is not otherwise.
The twelfth verse illuminates the
character of Caleb. The Anakim en
trenched among the hills were the
most formidable enemies with which
Israel was called upon to deal. They
were most powerful and to be feared.
They were the sort of opponents that
Caleb chose. He wanted no easy task.
His arm was mightiest and his heart
most courageous against the most ter
rifying foes. As he possessed extra
ordinary strength and faith so he de
sired the most dangerous expeditions.
His trust in God excelled any awe he
may have had for his foes. His con
fidence in the enabling of Jehovah
I made him fearless where others
might have been afraid.
Caleb requested the infested moun
tain of the Anakim as his portion.
The sons of Anak were to fly before
his prowess and the power of his God.
Trusting in the promises of God his
Lord, Caleb demanded Hebron for
an inheritance and was certain of his
ability to conquer and to hold it.
i What to him were giants and cities
great and fenced. He would under
| God overthrow the giants and de
j stroy their cities and topple down
their walls.
Those characteristics in the person
alities of Caleb and God that the les
son unfolds are applicable to pres
ent conditions and the modern life.
If they are not they are hardly
worth the study of those who
j are engrossed with the cares of
: to-day and the expectations of
to-morrow, who are compelled to
live and to labor in the days that
are. If they are not they are sub
jects most for the historian and the
study. Those Sunday-school lessons
that do not relate themselves to the
needs and the men of that do
not apply themselves with readiness
to the solution and explication of the
problems of the modern world ought
to be laid aside. But this lesson is
relative, it applies.
For the faithfulness of a promis
ing Father is daily proven. Multi
tudes daily test Him and find Him
trustworthy. He is as faithful to
us as He was to Caleb. Whenever we
keep our covenants with Jehovah we
discover that He more than keeps His
agreements. There is not a promise
that God makes to obedient souls
that is not abundantly fulfilled. Those
who are valiant and consistent and
courageous, trustful; who maintain
their spiritual and moral wholeness
and their confidence in God; who put
themselves and God to the test en
joy the realization of the ultimate
promises of God.
With us as with Caleb these prom
ises become effective when we wholly
follow the Lord our God. Caleb en
joyed the favor of God because he
served Him. He heard the voice of
God because he listened for it. He
saw the realized and objectified glory
of God because he kept his eyes open
to discern the wonders of the ma
jesty and might of God. That is to
say that Caleb followed God with
every faculty. When we walk after
God and before Him after that man
ner we too shall perceive Hi 3 glory
in the land of the living. When we
open our eyes we shall see His ma
jesty revealed. When we open our
ear 3we shall hear His voice. When
we submit ourselves to His will we
shall realize His power.
Living like this we shall be like Ca
leb who longed for the largest tasks,
the most vicious enemies, the stern
est strife. We shall welcome the la
bors that are most Irksome and the
difficulties that are commonly re
garded as insuperable. We shall
welcome them with joy. For we shall
have confidence in God.
