The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-11

IL. peasants Would not enioy +h
- .y :! Kings and PHILOSOPHERS -
- " HIS own place that each 90
US soes. heaven is for the haana
ifauon is for the c~ondemnihie
49,. ana women are for
aaell future abode, even as the fnt1ra
I:NN - for them rrhe
"a ). ~ De inherited by the bless
.uiS for you from tho ro7,n
oaton OF the world All him. -
eartn ana IN heaven, are making raada
y the reign of the good. Tha -;
u,iRn OF truth. the advent Of that
sloIlCus age Of which prophets hava
uieaiheo n poets have sung is s,,ra-
~ drawing on.
The G'eat Dividing Line.
II. ainage once pointed out that
"hile society divides mankind into
many classes by innumerable hort
ohlai ines Jesus divides the world
ny a single v~erticle line-on the LETT
the goats, on the right the sheep. The
only important classification in life
IS that between the good and the bad.
upper classes and lower classes are
not sufficiently distinctive: bur good
ana pad means most to the historian.
the soclologist, the educator. the
preacher. the statesman. When this
line Is drawn it rus through All
10000 hAAAsoS Ia & bS0It Ol Inc
lett and many Of earth's poorest and
humblest have been on the right. The
health OF the world depends more and
more upon making this the one dis
tlnctlon among men,. In an ideal state
the only recognized good society,"
would be the society Of good people.
The test which Jesus says will be
applied at the great day is not doc
tr1nai, but practical. People will be
judged by the good they did or eft
undone. He did not name some high
and knightly test, but the most or
binary forms of kindness, we'll within
the reach Of the lowiest; feeding the
hungry, giving drink to the thirsty.
showing hospitality to the n
clothing the naked, visiting the sick
and the prisoner. Simple, these, but
all in the likene Of Christ's ministry.
In his luminous little book, THE Print
of the Nails" the Rev. T. H. DarloW
says The nails Of the true cross to-
day are precisely those act. and de-
cisions OF ours which transfix our com-
mon selnshness. Whenever we deny
ourselves willingly for the love of
others who do not love us, whenever
We spend pains and patience to I'M
derstaBd those who have no sympathy
with US, whenever we give up ease or
profit or reputation for the
full and the evil, we are beginning to
receive tICSc SdGl So AlcI RS VI AnSASSSS
to the crucitied. The ultimate ques-
ton which tests our service to others
is, Does it bear any ain authentic
print OF the nails?'
This lesson is hard to learn. We
want to substitute other things for
the simplicities of Christ's prescrip~
ton. A few weeks g a New eng
land spinster was witnessing the Pas
sion Piay at Oberammergau; him
bnr r1t u JjtfIa how of CnEan VINO san
wondrously quiet during those eight
hours of strain. The spinSter had
book and opera glasses, and buslei
herself without thought Of annoyance
to the persons behind; and at appfo-
pirate places she wept copiously. But
when she the child WhIs-
Der occasional questions to his father,
or when once he touched the back
Of her seat. she turned upon him ana
slared. She thought she was in the
sairit Of the Passion Play; but, such
is the frailty Of human nature, sac
had no thought Of the real CnTis's
"ipasmuch;' and she was only AL
royed bv one of the little ones OF
.xhom Jesus said: Suffer the little
ones to come unto me. Inc liii>-
tration is but one of a myriad tnat
cnul,1 be piled up to snow no" w
! crsist in trying to SUBSTITUTE Iho'r ~
or ec.tacv or morbid spirituality loi
~. sim nie kindness which Jesus pre-
.cribed. The Judge will be hkeller u
ask u. how we treated our wives ~
TnrLmen and neighbors. than ~"
,arvent,v We cried Amen at feiiSt-
Gus services.
The Wonderful 'tInasInucsl.D
The loftiest Of motives for the low
Hest Of services is given by Jesus
when he Identifies himseif WIZ az
who are served or neglected: M.
much as we did it unto one y az :.
my children, even these ,eas,' ye a;d il
$50 nae as ye uiun
80 ,ntn one Of these least, We Gu
81 not unto me How those "oIos
- r1d -et christian feet speeding 20
mards the homes of want ana sorlo"
nd sickness, and to the PRISONS
,.n ~. cobbhe unused there paosca
his pane u,~