The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-02-09
A WAYS DE CHAT.

"A WAYS.DE CHAT.
The international Sunday School Les
sn4@for Feb. S is Jesus at Jacobs
WE'LL" John 4:5-t4.
Every year hundreds of men cross
the american continent from east to
west and back again, returning to their
starting point with little more real
they lind When trey sesou Thsy have
seen the country, but all the while they
nave Travelled in an eastern atmosphere
seldom leaving their palace cas- ex-
cept to promenade station platforms
and to stare at the natives. They talk
with the men to whom they have been
introduced, n about topics of COM
mon interest to fasteners. The idea
of even visiting In the day coach
ahead and of scraping UP acquaintance
with their fellow passengers there. new
er occurs to them. The democratic
way the people Of the west. have Of
ests ewing forfnalities and of showing
friendly interest In whoever happens
to be ones neighbor for the moment,
is totally foreign to most of these raw
elers, and therefore they go home with
QUO having so much as scratched the
~sIrfac,. of the real west: for it is life,
and not geographical location, that
makei a country or a community.
The simpler, more democratic way
markell the travels of Jesus as he
j%ourna.Fed to and fro in Palestine. His
most eager interest," was IN people. A
nan was more than a mountain in his
sight: an opened heart thar a mine Of
gold. He made the most of all his
Wayside meetings, knowing full Well
that lives. like ships that pass in the
night touch for an instant and sepa-
rate 10 meet no more. Each Of us is
ever depressing somebody; our influ-
ence by the way is often greater than
the direct work to which we apply our
lives.
So Jesus talked with the cheap,
eours'. Samaritan woman at the Sychar
well, twisting riches of teaching upon
her dun wits. And he thereby won her
to thu new ray of life, and through
her rtade many disciples and influ-
was w9rth while in. the yes of Jesus.
Why Workinqmen Cheer.
We today travel so comfortably that
a tral!scontinental trip is a real rest,
but when Jesus and his little company
of followers wanted to go up from Je-
%rusaleln to Cana, they had to walk ev-
cry fctit Of the toilsome seventy miles.
Thus it comes hat we catch this
glimpia of the Master in His WEAKNESS.
iSoSiiA,h Wy ID avn . NSl, l. 10 OllG VI
the pictures of Jesus that the world
prizes. For toiling humanity loves to
thing that it's Redeemer once shared it's
weari!iess and pain. The toiler whose
achint. muscles and nerves cry aloud
for rett, feels that this weary Man on
the w~all-curb can understand him. He
sees that Jesus was touched with the
feeling: Of his infirmities.
In this phase of life of the humble
Nazareth Carpenter we find the secret
of tn Workingman's admiration for
Jesus. 1t makes understandable the
fact tGat in a great labor assembly a
hearty three cheers We're given for
Jesus Christ. The humanness of the
Saviour is Very dear to the race; there
by it draws nigh to God. In Olive
Schreller's STORY of an African Farm
a strange character, with intense spir-
itual Gropings, is made to cry, II hate
God-Dut I love Jesus!" He did not
comprehend, what most men see more
clearly, that his weary, suffering, toll
ing, patient Jesus is but Gods own ex-
preston of himself.
Violating the Proprieties.
While the travel worn Teacher rest
ed by the well the Samaritan woman
OF the story drew nigh. Now a con-
y~entiolally correct Jew would have ig-
nored her presence, just as Mrs. Fifth
Avenue "cuts" her dressmaker when
she passes her on the street. The Jews
had no dealings with the Samaritans-
a hybrid, heretical people. But Jesus
a no eye for this woman's Samaritan
garb; to Him she was a human spirit,
Before Him each soul stands alone in
its need and in it's SHINING. He makes
nothing of the lines of race or cline or
condition which mean SO much to most,
He is the great Cosmopolitan Of his
tory, making His appeal to Roman,
Goth, Briton, indian, Chinaman, Jap
anese, Negro; He is in a profound
sense The whole worlds Saviour.
In this instance He went dead
against tradition. So much the worse
for tradition. He had a mission
to human hearts, and Mrs. Grundy-
that empress of all ages and peoples
could not swerve Him from it. He
vinclalism are too small to understand
that the ties which bind Humanity are
greater than the barriers which divide
It.
Clubbing Over Religion.
This woman was straight in creed
even If crooked in conduct. Her NOR
ais were loose, but her orthodoxy could
not be questioned. So SHE bridled up
and answered fippantly, when asked
for a drink Of water by .his Jew. Al
once she began to quiDbie over theo-
logical and ecclesiastical minutae, like
the person who tries to stop a big re.
llg1ous or reform movement by de.
batting the fine points of Armenianisn
and Crlvtnism, methods of administra-
ton, modes of baptism, forms of creed
n government, and SO forth. The
sm~all-soulea quibhters have been sue.
] cessful as flinderers to a degree out O
all proportion to their ability, numbers
Or real power.
Ok course the woman missed tn,
POINT. ~s.vh .sas that this Man before
her was thirsty, and ~entreating thu
common human kindness Of a drink o.
water. We have no record tha sly
ever complied with the request, ant
one wonders whether the Teacher.
later Words concerning "a cup Of colo
water have any connection with tn,
present incident. All the speculation:
and arguments and controversies tina
hinder the church from doing her frs
a~1l-important work may safely b.
written down evil. Wise are they, Xix
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