The farmer and mechanic., 1912-10-15
THE PERSON OUTSIDE.
The International Sunday school Les
son for October 20 Is. mission TO
the Gen,iies. Mark g 24-3O: Matt.
&:0-13.
eEy WILLIAM T. ELLIS

members were grouped about chatting
socially together. The door open
and "a man covered with dust,
entered immediately there was
Il cessation of conversation,
and "a drawing together Of the
groups, who eyed the stranger suS-
piciuusly. In n moment one OF the
officers went up to him to inquire
his errand. Upon his return, he re.
ported that the man was a prosper
Gus contractor who had stopped IN
to buy some tickets for an approach
ing lecture course in the huEch. Al
once everybody present felt ashamed
Of himself for his inhospitality toward
the stranger whom he had regarded
as a tramp. That the man should
be ~ weIl-tO do citizen in his working
clothes put a new face on the QueS
ton entirely.
This deep-rooted sense Of our own
crowd, and our instructive tendency
to turn oar backs upon the outsider,
especially - he seems an inferior, IS
a funda Iental fact in human nature.
No matter how much We talk ABOUT
brotherhood. it is difficult for even
the most tolerant Of us to realize that
every man is brother ana a pos
sihle equal. That is why democracy
is the highest attainment Of human
ity. The exclusive attitude in poll
ties and society and in religion is
easy and natural. The democratic,
brotherly attitude can only be achleN-
ed by conscious effort, or By Il new
spirit
Religious snobbery crops out in this
Sunday school lesson, which is the
story Of two persons whirn the ortho-
dox called heather. We fend them,
however, the objects of the Masters
Solicitude, and subsequently members
of His fellowship and recipients OF
Ills praise.
4 Foreign Mission Journey
one Of the vivid travel experiences
Is a trip down along the Mediter-
ranean coast to the region Of Tyre
and SiGon. The ruins of old PhOe-
nicia, Overlaid with Crusader castles.
frequent. Rock tombs. rified by
succeeding centuries of Nandals meet
one 1T every turn. The city Of Sidon,
one Of the most distinctive and pie
tpresaue on earth, carries the imagi-
nation back to unchronicleI anti
guilty. The tour. so full Of incident
and interest. recalls The visit Of Jesus
over that same road when He broke
over the boundaries Of Israel and
went into the heather parts of Phoe-
nicia.
Like prince travelling incognito
Jesus wanted to go quietly and with
out public recognition. .liET He could
ord. OF course not, Such life of
ministry as His cannot be concealed.
Wherever there is human need and
spirit hunger it will huft Him out.
Let anyone do "a real work and live
a real life, and the world will discover
him. cur trouble is that we are try
ins, to inform the world Of ourselves,
rather than TO live the life and do the
work. Because Jesus was Himself. it
was inevitable that He should be
known of men. The very "a die nce e
Of His benign face would mark Him
off from the mob of men.
An Outlandrr's Need and Daring
This western world of ours, which
Is by no means lacking in racial and
religious antipathies, can yet show
nothing like the spirit which peryade ed
the East in Jesus time, and which is
today characteristic of this identica
region. 1t was in Sidon tina; u group
of educated Christians poured out tt
me their bitter plaint against the in
Justices and indignities and out
RACES they suffer at the hands Of the
Moslcms. The simple fact that
man Is a non Moslem marks him fol
P0SSibl massacre. Then, as now
racial and religious lines We're high
barriers.
Jesus, be it remembered was ;
Jew, who had come to the lost shea,
OF the house OF Israel One day ~
was met by Greek woman, d dwell
er IN this heather fringe OF the HOl
Land she was Il gentle and a pa
gan, and accustomed to hear from tn
orthodox Jews the appellation O
dog. But she had a deeD huma
grief which took no account of he
nationality or religion. The ele
mental human qualities run thro,ty
all colors, races and creeds A
Sha akespeare makes ShylOck SAY:
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not
Jew HANDS, organs, dimens:o on
senses, affections passions? fed Wit
the same food. hurt with the sam
weapons, subject to the same di:
eases healed by the same mean
warmed and cooled by the same viii
ter and summer as a Christian is?"
This woman's daughter was in tf
clutch OF an evil spirit. The pr,
dominant fact in the family life w;
the illness of the child The s,
preme ambition OF mother al
daughter was health for the afflict,