Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-03-14
TALMAGE
SERMON
by Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, DID,.
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby.
terrain Church, Chicago


Rermon the preacher makes a strong
appeal 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 Nv, 4, And he must needs go
through Samaria."
No mans education is complete I'M
less he has travelled. There is a higher
diploma than that Of Yale, Harvard,
Princeton, oxford, Cambridge, Heidel-
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 off by
personal contact with those peoples
whose histories he has been studying
as a recluse and as a deliver in musty
tones.
The word Venice" has for the most
of us a poetic significance, but the
name never has its 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 mu-
sic so soft and sweet that its 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 underfoot, we sweep the
horizon and have cities for landmarks
and pyramids for statuary and CONT
nents for gardens, where the mighty
rivers off in the distance look like sill
yer threads webbed together, and
where the feecy clouds drifting over
the hills look like great focks Of white
woolly sheep pasturing upon the heav-
emily hillsides of blue.
No man ever caught the full inspira-
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 evening
shadow of the village church spire
has seen the poets urn and his "sol-
dier's grave" and the last resting place
of his youth unknown to fame" and
has heard at sunset 1.-The lowing herds"
wandering back for the evening milk
ing. So to fully realize this scene i'll
which our Lords interview with the
woman took place one must needs go
through Samaria." l remember well
that hill once crowned with the capital
Of Samaria at the foot of which still
Por
famed olive groves, and whose path
ways are still resonant with the per-
BOnal histories of an Omri, an Ahab, a
Ahaziah. a Jehu, JehOahaZ, q Joash,
HerCd AntipaS, a Herodias, John
the Baptist and the evangelist Philip.
/ cannot portray that scene so grand
and majestic in its lonely beauty, but
l 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 Samaria.
One reason, | think, was that Jesus
wished to reprove racial antpathy. The
Samaritan colonists were interlOpers.
They were not indigenous to the soil.
After the Shalmaneserian conquest the
Assyrian king carried away ten out of
the twelve Hebrew tribes into captiv-
Hy. Then. the eastern conqueror hav-
Ing depopulated the best part of the
land flowing with milk and honey
ne 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
10 William Penn for the American tract
Of land now called Pennsylvania and
Charles l. gave charter to Lord Bal
hmore to take possession of the present
state of Maryland, to be settled by hin
and his Catholic friends. After the
Jews had returned from the Babylo
nish captivity and had rebuilt the Jeru
salem walls and temple they wanted
30 drive out these foreign colonists
from the garden spot of Palestine. Blu
they could not Year after year, decade
after decade and century after century
The Samaritans held on to the region
lying directly between Judea, or north
krn Galilee, and the Jerusalem capital
There they dwelt, ready to STAY any
Jew or collection of Jews who attempt
I'd to modest them. There they contin
ned to dwell. Each year the hatred
between the two races grew more bit
ler and mortal.
Though the Samaritan and the Jew
for centuries had lived side by side
yet they hated each other only as g
Sarthaginian could hate a Roman, {
Moor could hate a Castilian, Turl
rould hate an Armenian, Mexican
Aztec could hate a Spaniard. Thes'
two peoples hated each other unit
Heath, yet when Jesus, with the objec
Of setting at rest the invidious com
ments Of the. Pharisees on his rivalr.
Of John the Baptist, left Judaa for hi
homo in Galilee he decided to pas