The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-31
N THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
What Church Folk Are Think
ing Abont and Doing
TIL STORM AND IT'S MASTER.
nh. International Sunday School Les
mn for June 5 is, Jesus Walks on
tn. Sea.'-Matt. 14:22-36-
By William IT. Ellis.

zion than real greatness IN the writer.
artist. musician or speaker who dis
daine mankind, and seeks s~eluestra-
atom for the cultivation Of the muse
rypr,- life which contains strains Of
hea7tr will have it's times apart; but
= viii never lose its contact with peo-
This attitude was characteristic Of
I4sus There was no height Of medi-
ration and aspiration, no s~ecIuslon
sonrnt by weary mind and body, from
which he could not be recalled by
fhe cry of human need. Last week
we found him turned aside from the
nurss.It of rest in order to teach and
feed 4 curious, hungry, impulsive rab-
HE. Now. clean forespent by that
soul-taxing day, and freshly assailed
b, Satan's greatest temptation, he once
more goes apart into a mountain to
pray-only to hasten down because his
fishermen friends are in danger. 1t
looks as if Jesus regarded h~elpfulnesS
As Of more importance than anything
Else in life; for. in the piled-up expe-
riencee Of those crowded days, he was
giving point TO the life principle that
che son of man came not to be min
tstcred unto, but to minister"
Nerves or SelfishnesS.
Some persons think themselves so
reGned and delicate and that
= loud noise, or the odor of a sweaty
crowd i'm q street car. or the noisy
play If children, drives them to the
Doctors medicines. They talk about
merry eS' when they really mean sim
pie. o~ld-fashioned seifshness. They
have dWeIt so much upon themselves
that they have grown needless of the
big world of men, women and chill
dreu of which they are SO infinitesimal
a part.
In contrast with all such, consider
Him who was the consummate express
sion u ~humanity'S best manhood as
full a. divinity as manhood could hold.
Never a spirit or a body SO finely at
tuned a. his. No sou so sensitive to
harmonies Of every sort. Yet how
close be kept TO the coarse-fibered,
commonplace, %toiling everyday people
# his time When the German En-
Iffor visited Jerusalem. they made a
special roadway for him; but Jesus
forced his " path up into the fast
neSs's Of the mOuntainside Special
trains and yachts carry the mighty
ones Of earth. he travelled afoot. or in
q smeaTcd, smelly boat Of working
fishermen.
Eloquent with the days most needed
message Of brotherhood was this life
A'a1 ~assiduously With the crowd
f''ajh@. healing. sympathizing, teach
ios. r"ml"rting-hiS was a life of ser
wee that bid Us all remember that
1ae especially equipped may not ask
@l"eaI Indulgence. but rather that
,aft mould especially serve. When
Ne e" from our I%oftiest heights to the
''".'~l ministry, we are following in
III" footsteps OF the Master.
brother, Your Path is Green"
rom the place Of to the
~ Of storm-is the transition ever
easy. Was there not a bit Of spirit
"i'".1 when Jesus turned his back
tp'a ms prayer retreat and girded
1+'"Sn.f to walk the waves to his men
@gT" lfI'nd-even as there is a pang
"n." a disciple today leaves the COM
' W. .45'e and happy family circle, or
,1F poisoning book. or the needed
INSURE, I'D order TO teach a Sunday
."Ot class. visit a sick person, attend
" '.ISlo"S meeting, or in some other
,'+ r~"lhister TO men in the name of
ar q, Was from The secret place of soil
PRAYER that the peril Of the dis
II''a allied Jesus. He had expert
Ir-,a Il orowded day. Exhaustion
Ia" taIo lis heavy had upon him.
fb,1.i~o surely earne repose. Never
tr,a,SS ne was not too busy" or too
foo@ 10 ray He could do without
fl ana Sleep and the society of his
F4,L ''L me l1HleS alone with the
tfro va, ne counted essential. We no
jee," NOV" keenly alert and obedient
rat,,n ""a 10 the highest needs of his
HE I. while at times disdainfuI Of
fnr lie kept his spirit attuned
tho .'St capabilities. Though trite,
tina, N"l'ineht IS tremendously true
cu1ivot, ! hody needs supremacy to
side ''o,e the higher, deeper, Godwari
a4ort ms nature. A man cannot
'" NOT to nr9v
Chr;st5 story is told of some African
from 'tahS who were wont to go apart
dali, 1.eIr homes into the jungle for
beafIa ""Str; so that a path was soon
WGe,nn 10 these natural prayer closets.
The CV.e OF them began to decline in
to Tristan life a friend would say
Bro ben III kindly brotherliness,
Grass ~ your path is green" The
spiritna"f' grown on the way to his
path il II'feat: ana when the prayer
on the 6tteh' The grass grown
and wh""y to his spiritual retreat;
the me Drawer nath 10 preen