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SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK De WITT TALMACE, DID,,
Pastor of Jefferson Park Freshly.
ts..An S!,r.'ch. Chicago

iupltuI utuiii~l llt evils VI ld'' hHC
eocial prejudice aud in favor OF candid
and friendly dealings with each Other
in all the relations Of life. The text is
John ". !. And lie must needs sc
through SaDaris.'
No mans education is complete I'm
less he has Travelled. There Is Il higher
diploma than that of Yulc, Harvard
Princeton. oxford. Cambridge. Hcide)
borg or the University of Paris. The
rough diamond must be cut and poi.
i5hed before il can sparkle and gilt.
ter and fash The scholars ragged
metal edges should be emoothed off by
personal contact with those peoples
whose histories he has beon studying
as a recusc and as a deliver in musty
tones
The word "venicc" has FOR the most
of Us a poetic significance. but the
name never has IT'S fail charm for any
bur those WHO have iioated in gondola
under the moonlight along the canals
Of that Quecnly city and have listened
TO the lover Wooing his mistress in mu.
sic so soft and sweet that It's echoes
blend with the Clip Of the oars and
gradually melt into silence. Tie most
realistic picture ever photographed is
seen with the naked eye when, with
the mountains uuderfoot, 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 sil-
where the fieecy clouds drifting over
the hills look like great focks of white
woolly sheep pasturing upon the heav-
emily hilsides Oh blue.
No man ever caught the full inspira-
ton of Grays elcGy unless he has been
able to dream his dreams within the
little hedged in buryins ground of
Stoke Pogis and under the evening
shadow of the village church spis..
has seen the poets urn ana His sol
dier's grave" and the last resting place
of his youth unknown to fame and
has heard at sunset 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 20
through Samaria. | remember well
that hill once crowned with tie capital
OF Sanaria at the foot of which still
grow the descendants of those far
famed olive groves. and whose path
ways are still resonant with the per
sonal histories Of an Cnri, Al Ahah. n
Ahaziah Il Jehu. Il .JehoahGZ, Il JOash,
n HerOd Antipas Il Herodias, John
the Baptist and the evangelist Philip.
| cannot portray that scene so grand
and majestic in its lonely beauty, hut
l would have you realize some OF the
circumstances which gave special sig
niticance to that momentous journey
of our Lord and present some of the
REASONS why he must needs go
through Samariu'
jesus Journey Through Samnria.
one reason. / think. was that Jesus
wished to rtilroyo racial autlpathy. The
Samaritan C0lOnsts We're interlODCrS.
They were not indigenous to the soil
After the Shalpaneserian conquest the
Assyrian king carried away ten out OF
the twelve Hebrew tribes into captiv
lty. Then, tho eastern conQueror hav-
ing depopulated tie best part Of the
land Glowing with milk and honey.
he repcopled it with his own followers
In other words. the Assyrian king gave
20 his own followers right to settle
lpou and cultivate and own that land
lust as King James | gave a chaites
b. William Penn for the American ira
81 land now called pennsyivana and
Charles I gave Il charter 50 Lord l}al
Gmore 10 rake possession Of the present
state OF M1rylaDG. 20 be settled by him
and his CATHOLIC friends. After tAf
Jews had rotGrned from the Babyl0-
nsh captivity and had rebuilt the ,Icrl
salem walls ava temple tnay wanted
% drive out these f0reiG coioHiSts
rom the garden spot OF Palestine But
hey could not Year after year, decade
after decade ana century after cen Try
the SamarftGns held on 10 the regtoI
wing directly between lild;ra. or north
h'n Gaiilee and the Jcrusaiem capital
There they d"ril. ready to Stay any
Ie"' or collection If Jews who attempt
ID to modest them. There they contn
led to dwell Each year the hatred
between rhe two races grew more bit
,cr and mortal.
Though the Samaritan and the Jew
Tor centuries had lived side by side
ret they hated each other only rs (,
carthagnian could hate Il Roman, s
Moor could hate a CuStilian, a Turl
could hate an Armenian. a Mexican
Aztec could hate 4 Spaniard. Thes,
two peoples hated each other unit
teath, yet when Jesus with the objec
II setting at resi- the invidious com
ments of the PhariSees on his rivalr,
Of John the Baptist, left Judna for hi
home in Gali,ee he decided to pas
through Samaria. lie did So thougl
j. was fully aware of the fact tina
rV0ry man, woman and child in Sa
maria hated the Jew as every Jew
hated the Samaritans.
Az Alike to the saviour.
BY that journey Jesus said to a.
mankind: '"1he man with the fattene,
nosc and the thick lip OF the negro ant
with the aquiline nose of the Hcbrey
and with the low forehead of the Aus
tralian aborigines and with the caivo
ess limb of the Bengal and with Il
Stuntcd stature OF the Eskimo a,