As With the Leader… – Sunday, August 10, 1941
Much wisdom was anciently reduced to the space of two short phrases—“as with the servant—so with the master.” (Isaiah 24:2) This statement of a fundamental truth has been so often demonstrated that it has become a historical axiom. It is to say in other words that ultimately both the people and their leaders share a common lot, and therefore, to have a good way of life we must have a good leadership.
History, as we know it, is the story not so much of people in general; rather it is the story of a few leaders and the events to which they led their people, for good or evil—kings, generals, statesmen and churchmen. The story of great achievement is usually the story of some strong individual. Great discoveries usually bear the name of a single person. The story of a great evil is likewise usually a story in which there is a leading character who moves it on its way—an arch conspirator who draws his followers after him. It is regrettable, but true, that this seems always to have been so, and the first recorded example of it goes back beyond the annals of time to that day when the first-born Son of God was the standard-bearer and the symbol of the hosts of righteousness, and Lucifer, the son of the morning, was the leader of those who lost their first estate.
It is a blessing beyond estimate for any people to have good leaders. But, as our time and all times have proved, and will yet further prove, it is a tragedy of lowest depth, for a people to be lead by false and misguided and ungodly persons. There still rests upon all men the responsibility of choosing this day whom we will serve—whom we will follow in all the ways of life—and for this choice the Father of us all will hold us accountable at that day when all shall stand before Him.
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August 10, 1941
Broadcast Number 0,625