The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-08


written words aud deeds of Jesus live
They never died. They lived aud they
continue to live in the lives of the men
and the women and the children tn
whom he spake.
Turn to the gospel of John and reaS
there the account Of the conversation
Jesus had with the woman of Samaria
by Jacobs we'll. Christ was a-wearied
He sat down to rest by this famous
we'll while his disciples went into Sy
char to buy bread. This we'll Is about
two miles from Sychar. rs remember
it Alright Now. while Christ was there
a woman Of Samaria, a social outcast,
came to draw water, While she was
there Jesus talked to her, In other
words, that whole conversation as re-
corded in John did not occupy over six
minutes. Yet the disciples must have
been away from Jesus at least an hour.
Do YOU not believe .lesu. talked to
that woman for more than five min
uteS? Do you believe that all the
words he spoke to her and she spoke
They were not. As they talked | be
lieye she told Jesus the wIf2e history
Of her life | believe she Nzoid him
how when Young girl she was tempt
ed and morally fell Then she repent
ed and tried TO rise again. Then her
old friends turned their backs upon her
The doors of purity were slammed
shut in her face. And as she talked !
think l can see the,great tears of sym
pathy roll down the Sayiours checks
Were the words of comfort he spoke
to her wasted Words If they We're
then all efforts which are being put
forth in our Florence Crittenton and
Jerry McAuley missions are wasted
efforts. All the attempts to lift up the
fallen are futile No. The unwritten
words and deeds of Jesus live They
live in the lives OF the men whom he
redeemed by grace. They live as the
unwritten words and deeds with which
we try to lift up our fallen brothers
and sisters to Christ shall live through
all eternity.
Working For Peace.
But | cannot close without showing
you how the unwritten words OF Jesus
must have affected those who did not
follow him as they should have follow
ed him. 1t was not all peace and hap
piness in the disciples camp. There
they had their little fr:ctions and jeai-
ousies. and Jesus unwritten words
must have been continually pleading
! for peace, peace, peace. Not one word
do we find in the gospels about these
conversations. But those piradings fo'
| peace must have been uttered.
i Turn to the first two verses of the
fourth chapter of st. John. When,
therefore, the Lord knew how the
pharisecs had heard that Jesus made
and baptized more disciples than John,
| though Jesus himself baptized not, but
| his disciples" Stop there. | want to
ask You why Jesus himself did not
| haptize his new converts, but left it to
his disciples so to do. Jesus did not
baptize his disciples, wrote a great
| commentator. because II he had bap-
tized some Of them it might have made
unhappy divisions among his followers.
| Those might have considered them
| selves more worthy or hOnored who
had been baptized by him than those
baptized by the disciples" Don't you
see the force of this Interpretation
| Jesus is practically saying to his dis
ciples: I've must do everything In our
| power to keep down the troubled wa
| tiers of jealousy. We must do every
| and all of Us, shall work in harmony
with each other. Peace, peace. Let
us sacrifice everything in order that
| we should work for the glory Of God
| in peace" Yet we find not one word
| of this conversation recorded in the
Scriptures.
The Value of Harmony.
| Are our unwritten words pleading
| for harmony in Christian work among
| Christ's followers? Are we doing all In
our power to have our homes harmoni
Gus and our churches harmonious and
| our different sectarian organizations
working hand in hand for the glory OF
| God and not for self? Are we ready to
/ sink ourselves for that peace and for
the glory of Christ? During the dark
est days Of the attempt to amaigamate
a lot of petty German principalities in
to one great German empire Prince
| Bismarck said to a friend oh, that
could live to see the day when al
these German peoples shall be united
| together In one great purpose to pro
tect and care for each other. | must
not think of what my enemies may say
or do. To attain this end | must brave
all dangers exile, even the scaffold It
self What matter If they hang me
provided the rope with which | an
hanged binds this new Germany firmly
to the Prussian throne?" Can yol
speak like that for your divine King
Shall your life be spent not only ir
bringing social outcasts to the cross
but in binding all Christians closer and
closer together with the Christ's love
While we dw.ell on these episodes II
the life of Christ that the evangelist
have left unrecorded, we feel sure tina
they were very kind and tender anc
pure He could not have acted other
| wise That divine life must have beer
consistent throughout. and the part
that we do not know have been i'll har
| mony with thosee we do know. SO i
;T. Nj.