The Newtown bee., 1896-05-15
THE VIEWPOINT BEE. FRIDAY. MAY 15. 1896.
 CIRCULATION: Janu2rr ], 1882, 6lO LaRL week, 3lUO
The Home Circle. THE WANDERING JEW.
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 cold shoulder" Before he attends to ',is daily ta~k he gives six hours to the confederation of lh"ec benevolences which do credit alike tr hi, luind and to his heart.
 Some of our donors roll out one million for education or charity and the Chris tian churches sing a re Deum. This Jcw@un his gifts up ten or twenty fold, and the enviou8 sheer and cynic calls him dishonest, and the supersritious say he had "thc evil cJc." Wherever he went contagicn followed him, and di.as-
 CT was mascot. How strange that he died Ike othrr ine:,-- I ordinary disease
 lr in his bed surrounded by his family. ..Iho evil eye" -aUuld have drowned him pr sent hjo. down r. death by the dagger pr the bullet.
 do not llnow If his private life. He j- said tu hav, iived in luxury. | hop& he p5!a. Itj+u"t often the Jew has tl4t
 privilege lie robbed 10 charity, made
 uo bargains go far us we know. with pquper,' contingent on their death, and
 DID NOT LEAVE HIS CHURCH
 bccauso the .xpcnecs were too high. If he took a fair supply of comfort aa he ygeps along do not blame him. Neither Abiuhan nor Moses nor David WAS an ascat5r, iIc has made his record. IL probably had the ordinary amount of vii in 1t, certainly proved more thaU
 .ue average measure of good. But evil IF good hl~ record is with the Judge of la earth. We will number his nlonu- uru-s. Let him where right It is weigh lh" dead Barren on his impartial and un arrjug sculve'
 IIia study suggests two or three un- foituuatc things. We can see how Jhe commanding laws of Christianity sink ay virtue of their own weight into char, Arjer responsive to them. post-holcs have to be dug. No gravity carries the cedar nIDar to the bed rock below where, fixed in it. firm state, it holds steady to
 .ho ine the rails which fe0cc ju the yer daut enclo.u-e from the barren wasto outside. Eul so true to what i5 best and
 co all thut is best iu man are the fine continents of thp Mcsaiah's faith that town through the crust If external uu-
 b licfs they g0 to mbed themselves in those native convictions ot man which
 be they ,whcncc they may are the foun- 1 tain life of all our day" Even in th" ] ripcst and most anIucnt state of the Old
 Testament history the Hebrew WAS home lover and home stayer. He
 kept his religion at home. The shadow
 jt his ecclesiastical 1lg never fell on
 o5her Iaud-the blood of his sacrifice never dropped on foreign soil. If his
 divine songs reached some cline remote 1 ]. waa because the atmosphere child of | il Universal God took them into it's echo 1 ing heart and waited them in invisible
 waves of harmony along the shores
 against whose ciins another music struck in harsher and in pagan tone. l If it's truths went abroad, it was be cause the noi.e of the pen of inspiration
 as it wrote vbratcd as ali sound does | The caaron which is fired up on the
 jdcs of White Face on our National
 holiday repeats its iubilant reports far
 out on Canadian soil. This is not be-
 cause of any intention to make the
 shores of the British St Lawrence sharer
 , or contributor to,our fete of liberty,
 but only that the mountain waters and
 the tall woods and the scarps of stone 1ger which the iceberg climbed cannot pen in the joy which gunpoWder ex. presses. The laws of freedom are in the kingdom of sound. Nature refuses to
 be partner in this monopoly. Liberty is liberty and freedom is free-and away goes the music and the merrimenr. "The wind is mine', their national voices cry so in the rare old Hebrew world of { uth. In what small zone was it to be pent? What Isaiah or Moses could put a girdle on it. What Abraham even could tie it to the strings or folds of
 Isaac's promised frock?
 The old time Hebrew did not mean it so-but the dear God is greater than the Hebrew, and he let out the sheep from enclosed told-nay, he broke down the transient bars and sent his fIeeces flying in filaments of finest wool, until frag- ments of the primeval wealth fell on every pasture and in every mans yard What the Hebrew did not intend, Christi- anity makes fundamental in it's purpose. It sets out with the intention of getting everywhere. It no sooner sees a man than it says, "I must have him." It does not ask his color or his race or his con- ditiOn, but it marks him for it's own. If 1t cannot have the inside of the man, it takes the outside and waits for another c2ance. If it cannot capture the whole, it contents itself for a time with part. But it looks at him as a being worth having, and as possessed of, qualities it can trans- form into engines of power. So it gets down into the heart of the Hebrew Hirsch and sets him to doing things on a scale of philanthropy so grand that the Gentiles hold their breath and wonder, | not SO much at the vastness of his for tune, e,as at the vastness of his schemes of 
 A TIMID VIEW OF THE ABILITY of the Christian forces to get down ueePiy InGo huiuAu ndbuEe anu Go bOucn and recover it at the point of it's most supreme passion is at variance with the vitality which resides in them. We be- lieve in life, even in the divine life of the truth of Christ. But we pause when we see it going down so deeply into the Hebrew nature-and perhaps all uncon- to itself-that the waters of be- neVolence begin to flow with such head a nd unlnnna Th Ia rrnrrr u,nrraE, n q aA sr