The Prescott daily news., 1910-01-15

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 Does it suggest rather GGE needless demeanor toward WY those of his own flesh and blood? Once or twice before have his words appeared almost ungracious and severe. Woman, what have l to do with thee?" And then again; Tt is not meet to take the childrens bread and give it to dogs. And the extraordinary thing is this, that all these seeming harshnesses are con- cerned with women. That in itself is sufficient to show us that we are on the wrong track. The seeming harsh ness is of our own making. It was not nresent in the Lord We have not anprehended his tone and his spirit, and so we misconstrue his words. It is possible to give an accurate report of mans words and yet by the tone in which we pronounce them we may absolutely distort their meaning false tone can make accurate words untrue. It is even so with the words of the Master. We can read our own tones into his words and they sound ungracious. We protrude ourselves, and we see ourselves reflected. We may depend upon it, whenever our Saviour seems callous we are inter- preting him through the film of our own moods. Whatever the words of my text may mean, they are most as- suredly suffused in love and tender ness and grace. It was the farthest thought from the Masters mind to depreciate his mother; he was only seeking to reveal everybody as with in the circle of his infinite love.
 The True kinship.
 It is therefore clear that in our Masters estimate of things, blood re- lations are far from being the most vital and influential of our kinships. There are no strangers like those who frequently live together in the same house. There are no gulfs compar- able to those which divide the chil- dren of the same blood. How rarely the home conversation goes down into the deeps, or away up into the heights! How rarely the family cir cle gathers it's intercourse round about the Lord, and holds communion concerning the things of God Is it not true that the ordinary life Of the ordinary family is exceedingly super ficial, and its speech is far more con- cerned with gossip than with gospel. and the deep. secret things of life are discarded or ignored? It seems as though blood relations find it i'm mensely difficult to share the deepest secrets. How often have I heard young fellow say of his father: "I cannot speak to him about it."
 Secret of the Best kinshp.
 The grades of kinship seem to be- long to the following levels: There is first of all, physical kinship, which IS merely a matter of blood. The kins- men are one in name, one in nature, one in common descent. As have already said. this may be nothing but skln-relationship. and there is no commerce in the spirit Then there 10 socidl kiHSnlp, man meeting With man for purposes of business. table talk conviviality, and the thin pleas ures of common life. Then there is mental kinship, which leads us a lit tie way into the deeps. Here there is common thought. common ideals. com mon conviction, and such relation snip leads to the formation of clubs and societies, the establishment of parties and sects. Deeper stilf there IS moral kinship. where the relation is constituted of the ardors of a com mon crusade, and the fellowship of sacred endeavor. But lastly, and fun oamentally, there is spiritual kinship. Tn which the deepest secrets are shared: in which there is communion oi desire and aspiration; where con-