Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-03-05
TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,
oPassor Of Jefferson Park Prssby-
tsriAn Church. Chicago

Los Angeles. Cal, Feb. 28.-ln this
sermon the preacher makes a strong
appeal against the evils OF race ana
social prejudice and in favor OF candid
and friendly dealings with each other
I'm all the relations Of life. The text Is
John iv, 4, "And he must needs go
through Samaria."
No mans education is complete 'nn-
less he has Travelled. There is higher
diploma than that Of Yale, Harvard,
Princeton. oxford, Cambridge, Heiqel-
berg or the University of Paris. The
rough diamond must be cut and pol
ished before it can sparkle and gilt
ter and fash. The scholars ragged
metal edges should be smoothed on by
personal contact with those peoples
whose histories he has been studying
as recluse and as a deliver III musty
tones.
The word "venice" has for the most
of us poetic significance, but the
name never has its full charm for any
but those who have fioated in gondola
Under the moonlight along the canals
of that queenly city and have listened
to the lover wooing his mistress in mu-
sic so soft and sweet that Its echoes
blend with the dip Of the oars ana
gradually melt into silence. The most
realistic picture ever photographed is
seen with the naked eye when, with
the mountains underfoot, we sweep the
horizon and have cities for landmarks
and pyramids for statuary and conu-
nents for gardens, where the mighty
rivers off in the distance look like sill
YER threads webbed together, and
where the fleecy clouds drifting over
the hills look like great iocks Of white
woolly sheep pasturing upon the heav-
enly hillsides Of blue.
No man ever caught the full insplra-
ton 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 evcping
shadow Of the village church epire
has seen the poets urn" and his "soi-
dier's grave" and the last resting place
of his youth unknown to fame''rand
has heard at sunset 1.-The lowing herds
wandering back for the evening milk
ing. So to fully realize this scene In
which our Lords interview with the
woman took place one must needs go
through Samaria." ! remember 5kell
tnaf nil once crowned WIN the edpi'ai
of Samaria at the foot OF which sun
grow the descendants of those iar
famed olive groves, and whose path
WAYS are still resonant with the per-
sonal histories of an Omri, an AhaD, a
Ahaziah, a Jehu, Jehoahaz, Joash,
Herod Antipas, a Herodias, 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 sig
nificance to that momentous journey
of our Lord and present some OF the
reasons why "he must needs go
through Samaria."
Jesus, Journey Through samnrfn'
One reason, l think, was that Jesus
wished to reprove racial andpathy' Inc
Samaritan colonists were interlopers
They were not indigenous to the soil
After the Shalmaneserian conquest the
Assyrian king carried away ten out oil
the twelve Hebrew tribes into captlv'
ity. Then, the eastern conqueror nav
ing depopulated the best part OF the
land Glowing with milk and honey,
he repeopled it with his own followers
In other words, the Assyrian king gave
to his own followers right to settle
upon and cultivate and own that land
lust as King James l. gave charter
to William Penn for the American trac
of land now called Pennsylvania ant
Charles l. gave a charter to Lord Bal
timore to take possession Of the presen
state of Maryland, to be settled by hin
and his Catholic friends. After th'
Jews had returned from the BaDylo
nish captivity and had rebuilt the Jeru
salem walls and temple they wanted
to drive out these foreign colonist
from the garden spot of Palestine Bu
they could not. Year after year, decad
after decade and century after centur!
the Samaritans held on to the regioi
lying directly between Jud@a, or north
ern Galilee, and the Jerusalem capital
There they dwelt ready to slay an,
Jew or collection of Jews who attempt
ed to molest them. There they contin
ued to dwell. Each year the hatre'
between the two races grew more bil
ter and mortal.
Though the Samaritan and the Jey
for centuries had lived side by side
vet they hated each other only as
Carthaginian could hate a Roman,
Moor could hate a Castilian, a Iur
could hate an Armenian, Mexica
Aztec could hate Spaniard. Thes
two peoples hated each other unit
death, yet when Jesus, with the ob1ec
Of setting at rest the invidious CON
ments Of the Pharisees on his rivalr
of John the Baptist, left Judea for hl
home In Galilee he decided to pas
through Samaria. He did so, thoug
he was fully aware Of the fact tina
every man, woman and child In Sf
maria hated the Jew as every Je'
,, bated the Samaritans.
All Alike to the Saviour.
By that journey Jesus said to
mankind "Tha man with the fiattene
nose and the thick lip Of the negro an
with the aquiline nose Of the Hebre'
and with the low forehead Of the Au
tralian aborigines and with the caly'
Tess limb Of the Bengali and with til
|. stunted stature of the Eskimo an