Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-19
AS TO CHARITY.
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We are charitable. w,Aere our love is.
ana uncharitable IN the company OF
| our hate And how can we help it?
| We can not determine whom we viii
! love. and it is about as far from US 10
/ determine whom we will hate. There
can be no doubt that John loved
| Jesus: and the pride Of his long life
was that he was the disciple whom
Jesus loved. 1t is implied that Jesus
was TO an extent under the common
rule Of humanity: otherwise there.
could have been no partially in his
mird toward John. It may lie John.
exaggerated this partially. hut other
disciples are witnesses to its existence
| There were things about John that
Jesus liked. and these things opened
to John q closer communion than was
possible to the other disciples. Jesus
| felt the human need of a friend, and
| this reed was more nearly met In
John than in any of the other dis
ciples.
1t is to be noted that the precious
ointment came from the women, who
| loved Jesus. The women were not
satisfied with expression In words.
They wanted to do something to mt
their feeling. Martha served q supper,
and her sister Mary contributed her
! precious pound of ointment OF spike
nard; just as the other woman took
her very precious ointment to the
| house Of the leper. where Jesus was,
and anointed HIS head. The women
we're dom gsuch things then, and they
| are doing such things now. They
offer the proof OF their love, that they
may do what they can to overcome
doubt and to reveal themselves as
they are. Jesus defended the women;
| he did not take sides with the disciples
| when they showed Indignation because
| the alabastar box Of precious ointment
was poured on Jesus head, but he
said: "NVhy trouble ye the woman: Tor
! she has wrought good work upon
me" And in the case OF Mary's gift,
Jesus did not take the view Or JUDAS,
nor yet did he comment in the spirit
OF John. Jesus said, 'Iet her alone;
against the day of my burial hath she
! kept this. For the poor always We
have with you: but me we have not
always" 1t was not the ointment IN
either case that seemed good to Jesus:
1t was not the personal tribute to him
that he priced. But looking into the
hearts. of the women he saw the thing
really good, and it was that goodness
which he looked upon as supreme.
Did John keep the commandment?
He did not love Judas; and yet he was
familiar with the commandment
There is no evidence that John did any
thing especially to make a better man
out of Judas. John had no faith in
Judas, and "the disciple whom Jesus
loved" did not struggle, SO far as we
can understand, to lay hold, OF good
qualities in the disciple who ''had the
| bag, and bare what was put therein
On the. contrary, John was disposed to
think the worst Of Judas, whose mo-
tives were held to be bad and whose
common honesty was boldly assafled
OF course it is question why Judas
being the man John judged him to be
was not cast out. of the society Of the
twelve, and why he should be con :
tinued as the banker and quartermas-
ter. If he was what John said he was
i then, he was. a reproach to the cause
!. to his immediate ASSOCIATES, and
Ishame to theJgospel of Jesus. e The lack
of integrity on the part of Judas, in an
office to which, the suspicious OF men
I naturally run, was calculated to cloud
1.-The integrity Of those whom he repre-
4 scented, 1t is an easy conclusion thai
Jesus should have cast out so unworthy
I a seryayt. Bptthe didsnot,s and. yn4aa
Twas at the last supper as one Of the