The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-06

Los Angeles, Cal, February 2S.-In this
 sermon the preacher makes strong ap-
 peal against the evils of race and social
 prejudice and in favor of candid and
 friendly dealings with each other In all
 the relations of life. The text is John iv,
 1, And he must needs go through sama-
 ria"
 No mans education is complete unless
 he has travelled. There is a higher diplo-
 ma than that of Yale, Harvard, Prince
 ton Oxford, Cambridge, Heidelberg or the
 University of Paris. The rough diamond
 must be cut and polished before 1t can
 sparkle and glitter and flash. The schol-
 ar's ragged metal edges should be smooth
 ed off by personal eantact with those peo-
 ples whose histories he has been studyig
 as a recluse and as a delver in musty tonnes.
 The word ''venice" has for the most or
 us a poetic significance, but the name never has It's full charm for any but those who have floated in a gondola under the moonlight along the canals of that
 queenly city and have listened to the
 lover wooing his mistress in music so
 soft and sweet that it's echoes blend with
 the dip of the oars and gradually melt
 into silence. The most realistic picture
 ever photographed is seen with the naked
 eye when, with the mountains under foot, we sweep the horizon and have
 cities for landmarks and pyramids for
 statuary and continents for gardens,
 where the mighty rivers off In the dis tance look like silver threads webbed to- gefher and where the feecy clouds drifting over the hills look like great l flocks of white wooly sheep pasturing upon the heavenly hllsides of blue, No man ever caught the full inspiration of Gray's elegy unless he has been able to dream his dreams within the little | hedged-in burying ground of Stoke Pogis
 and under the evening shadow of the village church spire has seen the poets
 ''urn" and his soldiers grave" and the last resting place of his youth unknown
 to famef and his heard at sunset "the lowing herds'' wandering back for the
 evening milking. So to fully realize this
 scene in which our Lords interview with the woman took place one must needs go through Samaria" I remember well that hill once crowned with the capital of Samaria at the foot of which still
 grow the descendants of those far-famed
 olive groves, and whose pathways are
 still resonant with the personal histories of an Omri an Arab, a Ahazah, Jehu,
 a Jehoahaz, a Joash a Herod Antipaz,
 Herodias, a John the Baptist and the
 evangelist Philip. I cannot portray that | scene so grand and majestic in its lonely | beauty. but I would have you realize some of the circumstances which gave | special significance to that momentous l joruney of our Lord and present some of the reasons why "he must needs go through Samaria."
 Jesus Journy Through samaria. One reason I think, was that Jesus
 wished to reprove racial antipathy. The | Samaritan colonists were interlopers. l They were not indigenous to the soil. 1 After the Shalmaneserian conquest the Assyrian king carried away ten out of
 the twelve Hebrew tribes into captivity. | Then, the eastern conquerer having de- populated the best part of the land | flowing with milk and honey" he re- | peopled 1t with his own followers In other words, the Assyrian king gave to | his own followers a right to settle upon | and cultivate and own that land. just as | King James l gave q charter to William l Penn for the American tract of land now called Pennsylvania and Charles I gave a 1 charter to Lord Baltimore to take posses sion of the present state of Maryland, to be settled by him and his Catholic
 friends After the Jews had returned | from the Babylonish captivity and had 1 rebuilt the Jerusalem walls and temple | they WH0Ieu tO uflNe out t0e lOItiSn tOl- | onists from the garden spot of Palestine. l But they could not Year after year, de- 1 cade after decade and century after cen- tury the Samaritans held on to the re- zion lying directly between Judea, or northern Galilee, and the Jerusalem cap | ital. There they dwelt ready to slay any Jew or collection of Jews who attemped to molest them. There they continue to dwell Each year the hatred between the | two races grew more bitter and mortal. Though the Samaritan and the Jew for l Centuries had lived side by side, yet they l hated each other as a Carthaginian | could hate a Roman. a Moor could hate | Castilan. a Turk cold hate an Armenian, 1 Mexican Aztec could hate Spaniard. These two peoples hated each other unto death yet when Jesus. with the object i of setting at rest the invidious comments | of the Pharisees on his rivalry of John | the Baptist, left Judea for his home in Galilee he decided to pass through Sa- | maria He did so. though he was fully
 aware of the fact that every man, woman and child in Samaria hated the Jew as every Jew hated the Samaritans.
 All Alike to the Saviour. | By that journey Jesus said to all man. | kind: "The man with the fattened nose 1 and the thick lip of the negro and with | the aquiline nose of the Hebrew and with 1 the low forehead of the Australian abor- l igines and with the calveless limb of the Bengali and with the stunted stature of the Eskimo and with the Herculean form | oI the Saxon and the gigantic Slav are all 1 brothers The Jew has right to hate the Samaritan; neither has the Samaritan l a right to hate the Jew
 1 But. though the Samaritan shauld love l the Jew and the Jew love the Sauari- | tan. just study how the old racial preju- l dies against the Hebrew race as a ve- | nomous serpent with it's simy cnils, les come wriggling down through the ages. Why is that finely dressed and courteous | gentleman are refused admittance into | some of the leading hotels of Saratoga and