The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-04
INTfE RELIGIOUS WORLD
What the Church Folk Are Thinking About and
Doing. Religious News From
Elsewhere

| greatest sorrow seems to be the happl
ness of other people. OF q naturatl.
Jealous disposition, they cannot view
With eauanimity the prosperity OF n
body else. The world is full of thes'
born detractOrS. The slang phrase o
day calls them .knockers' and tn
philosophy Of the street a coinet
words of keenest. scOrn for them
Even the man who gives least though
to questions Of character and fthlc
~perceives~ that the '~.knOcker' OF
the wrong track. and that he is a MAJ
to be avoided o. reformed.
The Jews OF Antioch had been de
lighted over the popularity Whlci
Pauls sermon had won for their syn
agosue, but when they found that tn
multitude followed Paul and disre
garded them. they were filed Will
jealousy" They could not stand aside
| for the sake of a great man n I
great message.
Therefore they stirred UP Islander
against the missionaries; even a:
heather in all lands have fabricated
the most outrageous and DaseleS:
SANDERS against missionaries. 1t is {
common belief in many pagan com
lmunities that the missionaries stea
| children and make medicine out o
| their vital organs. Some of these ru-
| mors would seem to be too ~rldlculou:
10 deserve notice, were II not tina
| they are credited by the people fol
whom they are intended. These Jew
| appealed to the p~artisanshlp OF tht
| women of their communicated wo-
men are essentially partisan, tht
chief defenders of al old institutions
! Conservatism makes its last stand IL
the minds of m they are tht
| best advocates and the bittereSt Op.
D]OnentS. Whenever there is q race
| riot on the East Side of New York
it is the women who make most o
the trouble.
A Missed Opportunity.
1t was inevitable that the new Doe
trine should spread beyond Jewish
limits. Their was no reason outside
themselves why the Jews should no
go alone with it. IN their c~ondemna.
ton of the liberality of PaulS Mes
sage, they really condemned them
selves. Our judgment of others in
evitably judges us. BY their attitude
toward Paul and toward Christianity
wider spread, the Jews shut them
selves Off from h great opportunity
in their history. and missed the very
mission for which they had been sci
apart as a chosen people.
But they We're impOtent to stay the
spread of the Gospel. Gods Kingdom
is bound TO come. Mans only concern
is whether it shah come by his helI
or in spite Of him, and whether i
shall come to him or pass him by
The great question Of election Which
arises in this connection was we'll an.
severed by Rev. Sam Jones, the evan.
gelist. who said: The elect are The
whatsoever wills and the 'non-elect
are the whatsoever won'ts.'
Doing the Job.
lie that speaks the truth will fine
himself in sufficiently dramatic situa-
TONS says Professor Woodrow vii.
on. There are crises constantly cor
fronting the man who is animated
as was Paul, by the conviction, 'Thi.
one thing | do" Whoever is deter.
mined to do his Owl Wor at all haz
ards is bound to have q variety o
experiences, but he and he alone viii
GchieVe great results. Mr.. Moody
used to say when men ask me
Moody, what IS the secret Of Your sue
cess l reply, Go to work and stay
at work and YOU Will find it" Pau
and Bafnabas. like d glorious com
pany Of missionaries since. Sc
Their hearts upon preaching the Cos.
pei to the regions beyond. Nothin.
could deter them. Antioch cast then
out. Followed by SANDER, abuse, i'll.
treatment. ami probably physical VIC.
lence. they were driven out of The
borders Of Pisidia.
But they still continued preaching
The cost mattered not at all to them
SO ions as Christ was preached Pau
could stand anything. His attitude
recalls a remark made the other day
by DR.. Samuel n. Zwemer.. Of Arabia
the great authority upon Mohamme.
danlsn, who was speaking rather i'm.
patiently upon the maudlin sentimen.
tally concerning missionary hard.
ships. 1t does not matter how mucl
people nave to suffer in this work
1t does not matter how many mis-.
sionaries We kill. 1t does not matter
how much money we spend. TIL,
point is that missions are g. war
War always costs. Our business i
to go ahead and carry on the hight.
ing and win the battle"
Paul did not hesitate to narrate hi.