The Newtown bee., 1895-08-23

seemed to favor 1t, even if it was the Bi- ble. Now Peter was man with prej- udice. That prejudice was bred in the bone, and belong to him in common with his race. For hundreds of years the de-. l scendants of Jacob had been trained to hold themselves aloof from all men of
 other races. They must have nothing | to do with Gentiles, they must touch | ! nothing unclean. But now he is put in | charge of universal gospel. He must 1 proclaim that Christ died for all without | distinction of race. The Saviour owns | all men as his brothers. How then |
 could Peter say Lord, thou knowest that l love thee, if at the same time he re- fused to love the Gentiles whom Christ received? Knowing that Peter's prej | udice would die hard our Lord granted him that vision which sent him on his
 way with the messengers of Cornelius,
 and enabled him to take the Gospel to
 the GenEiles. Love in this case proved I stronger than prejudice. THERE IS STILL GREAT NEED for visions that will show old dislikes to
 be unworthy to be cherished, and for an all-embracing love. Look at some parts of the South to-day. Florida has passed
 law making it penal offense for any
 individual body of inhabitants, corpora
 tion or association to conduct within this Q state any school of any grade, public,p pri-
 yo1 1,sk
 and negroes shall be instructed or board cd in the same building or taught in the e same class or at the same time by the f same teacher. The penalty is fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or l. imprisonment in the county jail for not . less than three nor more than six months. Il Here is an outcropping of prejudice which i, is disgrace to the state. Before this re- "a fined white ladies who dared to teach In . colored schools were ostracised in the # south, now they are liable to imprison' v. ment, even In associations of churches ir the south, the white christians must keeI
 by themselves. All honor to those fol
 lowers of our Lord, north or south, whose 5y love for him is strong enough to enable ot them to overcome race prejudice. May ar the South soon have vision that shal he teach that what God has cleansed, ans tn what Christ has died for, is not to b. he called unclean. The average man is no Ie a great force in the world. If we lool nt about us, how few we see who seem t. of be accomplishing anything worthy of be rs. ing long remembered. I would not b or understood as depreciating what are call ng ed the common virtues of life, yet whic ie. the history of each day in the bushes hn world, shows are none too common. T go rear family of truth-telling, God-feal Is. ing children, many of whom will go t Is lead honest, helpful lives, of large infiu ill., ence in our cities, is a noble work an n. one that has
 io' THE SMILE OF HEAVEN.
 he Yet after all there is little in the If nd about us to inspire youthful enthusiasm ev Sometimes however an idea takes posses ,as sion of man, and then he begins if tn tu- idea is a worthy one to assume heroi ed proportions. So far as that idea is tru th, he stands as an embodiment of trutl his and truth is mighty. The record of ou ri great inventions is a record of heroe of They believed they could benefit the Int fellowmen by showing them 2 bette nd method of doing what had to be dor m, than the method in common use, an us how much richer is human life in cons w. quence of their efforts. To them may |
 at joined the great discoverers of all age ho who dared to follow an idea wherever his might lead. We say, and truly, tn; I'd, these were men ot power. But if yo ,ok wish to see the highest manifestation da- power you will turn from these men ho. one idea, however great, to those wi to have given themselves up to God to ] Jim used in His special service. The apost wo Paul assures us that God sometim the chooses the weak things of the world the confound the mighty, and I presume we would have us infer that he was one
 those weak things, yet how vast the wo
 accomplished by him. When man c
 fers himself willing medium throus ant which God may exercise His power, the ove is no telling beforehand what results m,
 in follow. Take MT Moody for exampl pic. and can assure the boys that his life of very interesting reading, for he is as fl i'd, of fun and as fond of practical jokes cad any of them, and see what God has dol yes through him in two hemispheres. F
 "I was man willing to be led ,one who ev no tried to follow exactly what he thoug the was the divine will for him at the m ne, ment. He was about 17 years old whs md he became clerk in Boston store, al His his Sunday school teacher. MT Kimbal are says of him,
 ave
 ing
 se who was afterward to lead tens of thou oes ands of souls to Christ, q can truly ss ? that have seen few persons whose mint lty were spiritually darker than his when ow came into my class.'' After he had bee hid a year in Boston and wished to unite vii net the church, he could not tell what i've meant to be christian, and had no ids .ist of what Christ had done for him. Yet inc could say with Peter, "Lord, thou knoy nd est that love Thee," and he began lck pray for help to be good. There can l ,ed few young men among us IS years ol nd who are not in advance of Moody at tn m- age in spiritual knowledge and the san le- God is as willing to bless our young me
 in and magnify his grace in them, as he VI ,ur to bless him. We follow Moody to Ch
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