The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-28

the quicker the world Will ecom
Christian.
A suffering man bought a parrot
guaranteed to be a good talker. lie
kept it for d few weeks and then he
brought 1T back to the dealer. 1 DID,
don't want this b-b-bird. It st-t-t-t-
tutters." Contiguity creates conform
ity. Nearness begets likeness. SANITY
| persons flavor a neighbOrhood with
saintliness. GOd-afire men set the
world ablaze. 1t is the leaven in the
lump-in the lump, mind YOU, not up
on some shelf or hidden in a closet
that leavens the whole. The hope of
the world is the Church is its midst.
The ~peryasive doctrine Of Jesus, per
meating all of society, is the one hope
Of society's transformation.
The reader Of h news finds his
nerves atlngle as he
what the gospel leaven has lately been
doing in the world. For a millennium
past the LAND where Jesus told these
stories has been in the grip Of intol-
Grant Islam. Now the leaven has
spread and swollen, overturning the
tyrraneous throne Of the Sultan, and
giving religious liberty to all people
on this holy soil. So the Chosen Peo-
pie are f1ocking back to Palestine. The
same leaven is cracking the tomb of
dead Egypt, and bringing new life to
light. 1t is changing the changeless
East beyond an believing. Trans
formations such as the sun has never
before beheld are being effected all
over the earth because this leaven of
the gospel has been hidden in the mass
Of humanity.
The Doctors Ethics.
The ethics of the medical profession
require a physician to give to all the
world, Withou money or price, the
benefit OF any new discovery he may
make in medicine. Those are also the
ethics Of jesus. The best belongs to
everybody. And the exceeding treas
ure Of life Is religion. For that all the
world seeks. Consider the multitude
Of pilgrims now en- route to Mecca and
Benares and LlaSsha and 1Se, and the
lesser shrines of the worlds religions.
These one and all represent the pur-
suit of spirit-satisfaction. They stand
for the worlds agreement with the
proposition Of Jesus that the pearl of
great price, and the treasure best
worth seeking, is peace and eternal
life.
The two pictures-that of the man
who found a treasure hid in a field
(fOr even these o~ld-faShioned banks
often fail the original depositors), and
sold all that he had and bought the
field; and the merchantmen, seeking
goodly pearls, who bought one pearl Of
great price by the sale Of all his pos
sessions-have n meaning; h SUI
preme ~desirability Of the kingdom Of
heaven The u~nsearchable riches of
Christ should be q recurring theme in
The teaching Of this great lesson. All
second-rate pursuits should be aban-
doned for the sake OF the n thing
needful. which is life, eternal and SUI
pernal.
MANY Fish. One Net,
The person who wants to be exclu-
sive is finding this an incr easingly Diff
ficult world In which to live. Snob-
bish Americans move to Europe,
where social lines still retain some
what OF their old rigidtty. The lament
~ lose their exclusive tone. The truth
is, the great tides Of democracy, which
began to rise in Galilee's blue waters
nineteen centuries ago, are beating and
booming against the foundations Of all
unbrotheriy ar~istocracies. The ulti-
mate form of human government is a
democracy. All kinds and conditions
Of people are being drawn closer to-
gsther-ail on a higher level.
Jesus pictures the Kingdom Of heav-
en- itself as q net, gathering up all kind
OF fish. OF u there Is an ulti-
mate separation OF the good from the
bad. At the moment It "a fair to dwell
upon the comprehenSveness of the
church. It a o Tor all classes
There is q fundamental defect in the
method Of founding a workingm ms
mission Oh the East Side and an I'm
ployer's church on Fifth Avenue. For
the sake OF the Church, for the sake
Of he world, for the AXE Of the ma
ton, for the sake Of the gentle Bro
ther OF al e who meets everybody
on a level Of love, this state Of things
must be supplanted by the Christian
fraternity, which knows no division
except that portrayed In the parallels
OF the tares and the net-the separa-
ton Of the good from the bad.
God does not divide men according
to any Of the worlds stupid classifi-
cations. Dr. Ta1mage one said that
while society divides men by many
horizontal hnes-intu upper classes,
middle classes, lower classes. etc
Jesus divides them only by one per-
pendicuiar line-he sheep from the