The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-02
Suggested Hymns.

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Thoughts on the Topic.
The Christian Endeavor World" gives
the following comments On the lesson:
When q physician enters a smallpox
pesthouse he does not run much risk
OF catching the dread disease. He has
protected himself against It by frequent
vaccination, sometimes as frequent as
once a week He wears robes covered
with a disinfecting solution Above all,
he is very careful not TO take directly
the breath OF any Of the sufferers. And
by observing these simple precautions.
he is able 10 be a genuine ministering
angel u that terrible visitation.
During the outbreak of smallpox
which came upon Boston in the years
Of 1901 and 1902. there was doctor
who led the opposition to vaccination.
believing It to be both useless and
harmful He wrote and spoke long
and bitterly against the practice, and
especially against the law max
Ing Z compulsory. He defed the
law himself and advised others
&c defy 1t. One day to prove
his points, he asked the city physicians
10 let him enter the pesthouse and pass
around the wards with them, but with
out any Of their projections. They
allowed him 20 DO SO, thinking that
the result would warrant them IN thus
rIsking his life. Without vaccination
OF the disinfecting robe. he breathed
the Desthouse atmosphere, and even
took the breath Of patient
In q short time this foolish doctor
himself came down with smallpox, and
for . while Lis life hung in the balance.
He viii always bear about with him the
disfguring reminders Of his folly
All this, EnGeavorers, is only a sym
Dol Of the way we Christians are to be
separate from the world Of sin. We are
to enter it, TO be sure, but we are not
to enter it without protection. We are
to have received into our bodies the
water Of life We are 20 wear the robe
OF Chrisr's purity We are not to go for
our amusement, nor in brayado. but only
Oh arrauds OF mercy and Of love. We
are TO uiugIe with sinners as Christ did.
being in the world. but not Of it. And
30 long as We do thai. we are safe
from all contagion-
Bishop Huntington asks Us 10 notice
that the command, Come out from
among them. and be re separate" has
tao parts The coming out is compar-
stfvely easy: il is keeping ourselves
separate. inspected from the world, that
Is hard. We are TO be clean every whit
VIC are to separate ourselves not only
from what is wrong, but also what is
right in Itself. II It separates US from
Christi II takes time that should be
given 10 Christ. or absorbs interests
that should be His. Much work and
much play deserve this kind Of separ-
alton.
Horace Bushnell once declared that
there Is no greater mistake than to sup
pose that Christians can impress the
world BY agreeing with 1t. The world has
many that agree will It. What it needs.
and What II appreciates. is the manliness
that can stand apart from IT and force
# 10 q better way.
We are to have the world, as Robert
son says, but we are not 10 let the
world have Us; We are 20 be its master
and not its slave. We are 20 live in it,
but not OF IT, II ls a Christians duty
TO take active and helpful part In the
worlds social life and business life and
political life, but always he must re-
member how transient they are. and
must see that his heart is fixed on the
eternal things
DTueamond assorted mcst truly that
mos; Of the difficulties of trying 10 live
the Christian life arise from attempting
te half live Il They would disappear