The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-19
TIE MAN AT THE
BEAUTIFUL GATE.
The international SUNDAY school Les
son Tor January ii il. The lame
Man Healed Acts 3: 1-26.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

ne ptdNIiCdI bdAlISIliIttIll oi the
professional begsar is one of the sell
dom-noted achievements of Christi
anltE. The occasional mendicant met
upon the streets of a great city can
not he c3assed with the professional
he&gar whom the Orient knows. The
distressing suppficants for aims that
81 traveller meets in heather lands are
without Il parallel in all Christen-
dom. The very. memory OF the sights
and sounds - a Nightmares, | am
StIIl haunted Ivy the heart-rending
cries Of the abtect creatures. often
hiGeously manned, whom l have heard
and seen, especially in China ana
India.
pualic charaeters, even as was the
lame mal bE the beautiful gate of
~Selougu'S Temple. who cried to Peter
and john tor aid. He was as famil-
lar "a spectacle to worshippers as the
pillars OF the magnificent colonade it
self. He lived by the small doles
which We're thrown to him. we in the
A.St have no coin small enough 10
Express the size of the average bit
nt money given TO 0egsars M Inr
orient Probably it never occurred
tu Worshippers in the great temple
that the contrast between this broken
hit of humanity. and the gorgeous
arcHltecture. had ausht to do with
" ligjon. II Is a distinct evidence OF
he advance made n our own lines
that men shake their heads over the
-uNtlpOsition of stately cdthedrals and
sqGaid There IS some
thing wrong when religion can rear
MAGNIFICENT structures alongside OF
the abode of direst suffering. Today
It Is tie recognized business of the
hurch to do for all the poor and
suffering what Peter did for the lame
man AT the gate. when he stretched
Forth his hand and bade him arise.
Unemployed and Idle.
The begGar sat ut the Beautiful
Gate. Every door of ascent has along
side OF il a waiting opportunity. There
: need everywhere. The young per
sons who lament that they have no
nance. would more truly express
he situation ii they bemoaued their
fck of wit and OF impulse, No sphere
too narrow TO afford a person an
opportunity for the expression of his
largest and highest powers. There :
work on every hand. in the form OF
occasions for human ministry.
Great Britain is witnessing At pres
mt Notwithstanding professions Of
the unemployed The churches there
5re doing much 10 meet the eXigea-
les of this extraordinary condition.:
nd = j. no paIliation of the neglect
"E a Christian civilization. or of the
H~-eGualtles OF a social order which
permits this state OF affairs. to say
that the unemployed should not also
be- Wholly idle. There is work even
Wh@a there are no wages It - a
StranSe fact that most men and wo-
fE5u. when they los positions. give
tie mSelTes 10 tEIeuess. except as thev
may seek work. instead OF embracing
the opportunity for seIf-improvemen1
ana a-rTuISrlC usefulness. No matter
how hard ones W. lot. there i 4
h-lGhlo whose lot is worse. The
~@iVauon pt society Is L. come hy
r~FeEAhoaES uaViug in his heart the
impulse which prompted Peter to
cure the lame be1gar.
Religion for All of a Man.
a9a>s IL IL no new doctrine that
the church has business nor only witt
all mon. but with all OF man. He,
realm : no longer confined to thu
>i'lctE spiritual Whatever serves
man body or spirit is a legitimate of
nee Tor relSton. The problem of
poverty IS. it IS true, a problem Of the
state. bat before that il is q problem
OF the Church. That so much Of the
NoClalZed thought Of oar day is out
side OF the realm Of organized chris
lanIty Il a reflection upon the lat
l.l ~Nfd though the sOcialistic Anpuls.
Is BORN directly Of the ~neva%a,sDfrit
Naieh Christ has brought sere and e,
Cents for an
Potter looked uLxofth Carolina re- ;
tt" gate. RI cent of the value o.
have Its ac in the nation II
rive -. the farm labor
D,lAIl1S sir a fair re-
- we
n tnrist VINO
'SSldhlIE = not compassionate i ]:
h0l --ii9Si'he.
i'u see, III" thurcn can no iongeI
say like Peter. Silver and gold hav,
J none. boosted Innocent " l.
Thomas Aquinas. and that great phil.
osopher remarked in his turn. .EGI
ean she say. Rise un and walk" Tn.
Church TODAY the w.aItF
of the world. She is master of thu
OF civilization. All the ma.
teriaI needs Of all the world she car
do more to meet than any otbe,
az-ncr. Whether She stiu has +,
apostolic degree. the fmprfIsa of self
sacrifice and OF concern for huna.
veal which animated peter l. mar :.
clear Assurpd1v. The trend Of tho at
~ toward a fresh realization Of M
Church's responsibility for the meet
sn- Of the worlds needs. This -,
=poesfDtIity i u be- met both bv gifts
gold ard Ia the outstretched hanC
Of brotHerIfneS4 and h~eIpfulness
,,k-4y Little ana Getting Much
-AILtt an. money II EFltIfISL AdlNttbI