Highlights From Higher Ground

“The Micah Mandate” by T. Roosevelt

This was placed on the inside cover of each Bible given out to the Doughboys. It is been called the “Micah Mandate.”

The teaching of the New Testament is foreshadowed in Micah’s verse,

“He has shown you, O Man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you: but to do justice and to love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8)

Do justice; and therefore fight valiantly against those who stand for the reign of Molech and Beelzebub in this earth.

Love mercy; treat your enemies well, suffer the afflicted, treat every woman as though she were your sister, care for little children, rescue the perishing, and be tender with the old and helpless.

Walk humbly; you will do so if you study the life and teaching of the Savior, walking in His steps.

Remember, the most perfect machinery of government will not keep us as a nation if there is not within us a soul, no abounding of material prosperity shall avail us if our spiritual sense is atrophied. The foes of our own household will surely prevail against us unless there be in our people an inner life which finds its outward expression in a morality like unto that preached by the seers and prophets of God when the grandeur that was Greece and the glory that was Rome still lay in the future.