Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-03-04
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Presby-
terian Church. Chicago


social prejudice and in favor OF candid
and friendly dealings with each other
In all the relations of life. The text is
John iv, 4, "And he must needs go
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
rs 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 gondofa
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 OF 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 ''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." 1 remember we'll
that hill once crowned with the capital
Of Samaria ut 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 Omri, an Ahab, a
Ahaziah, Jehu, Jehoahaz, n Joash,
n Herod Antipas, a Herodias, n John
the Baptist and the evangelist Philip.
1 cannot portray that scene so grand
and majestic in its lonely beauty, but
1 would have you realize some of the
circumstances which gave special sig
nifcance TO that momentous journey
OF our Lord and present some OF tho
reasons why "he must needs 20
through Samaria."
<esus' Journey Through samarin.
One reason, l think, was that Jesus
wished TO reprove racial antipathy. 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-
ity. Then, the eastern conQueror hay-
Ing depopulated the best part OF the
land flowing with milk and honey"
he repeopled IL with his own followers.
In other words. the Assyrian king gave
to his own followers n right TO settle
upon and cultivate and own that land.
Just as King James /. gave n charter
20 William Penn for the American tract
or land now called Pennsylvania and
Charles j. gave q charter to Lord Bal
hmore to take possession OF the present
state OF Maryland, to be settled by him
and his Catholic friends. After tho
Jews had returned from the Babylo-
nish captivity and had rebuilt the Jeru-
salem walls and temple they wanted
To drive out these foreign colonists
from the garden spot OF Palestine. But
they could not. Year after year, decade
after decade and century after century
the Samaritsns held on TO the region
lying directly between Judma, or north
ern Gafilee. and the Jerusalem capital.
There they dwelt, ready to slay any
Jew or collection or Jews who attempt
cd TO modest them. There they contin-
ued TO dwell. Each Year the hatred
between the two races grew more bit
ter and mortal
Though the Samaritan and the Jew
Tor centuries had lived side by side.
yet they hated each other only as a
Carthaginian could hate a Roman, a
Moor could hate a Castilian, a Turk
could hate an Armenian, a Mexican
Aztec could hate n Spaniard. These
two peoples hated each other unto
death. yet when Jesus, with the object
OF setting at rest the invidious COM
nents OF the Pharisees on his rivalry
OF John the Baptist, left Judsea for his
home in Galilse he decided to pass
Through Samaria. He did so, though
he was fully aware of the fact that
every man. woman and child In Sa-
maria hated the Jew as every Jew
hated the Samaritans.
All Alike to the Saviour.
By that journey Jesus said to all
mankind: THE man with the fiattened
nose and the thick lip OF the negro and
with the aQuiline nose OF the Hebrew
and with the low forehead of the Aus
traiian aborigines and with the calve-
less limb or the Bengali and with the
stunted stature OF the Eskimo and
with the herculean form OF the Saxon
and the gigantic Slav are all brothers.
The Jew has no right to hate the Sa-
marian; neither has the Samaritan a
right to hate the Jew
But, though the Samaritan should
ieve the Jew and the Jew love the Sa-
marian, just study how the old racial
pretudices against the Hebrew race.
as a venomous serpent with its Shiny
coils. has come wriggling down through
the ages. Why is that finely dressed
and courteous gentleman refused ad-
mittance into some OF the leading hotels
OF Saratoga and New York? He liz a
dew. Why was Alfred Dreyfus sent
to Devils island to be more 'inhumanly
treated than any government would
allow any man TO treat a dumb brute?
he was jew. Why the clannishness
OF the ghetto? Because the gentle by
sneers and SCOTS refuses to associate
with the jew; therefore the Jew finds