The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-12

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! At the close Of the midweek prayer
/. nieetingsan Philadelphia church. the
membere were GROUPED about chat n a
i and a roughly dressed man, covered
with dust. entered. Immediately there
4 was o. cubsation OF conversation, and 4
draylns togs,hsr OF i the sposSpS' y, mho
4 momelft one OF the officers went up 70
j him 10 inquire MS Grand Upon his
i return, he reported that the man was
ia t,rdEberon $ CONTRACTOR who had stop
ped NJ 10 buy some tickets for an APP
i proacfffng lecture course In the church
AT once everybody present felt asham-
| ed OF himself for his inhospitality to-
ware the stranger whom he had re-
4 rardea as tramp. That the ma
i shofftd be a weli-to-do citizen in his
working clothes put-a new face on the
question entirely.
| crowd. and our instructive tendency 70
tturn our backs upon the outsider. es-
pecially II he seems an INFERIOR. Is a
fundamental fact In human nature 10
matter how much we talk about broth
erhood. IL Is difficult for even the most
tolerant OF Us To realize that every
man In a brother and possible equal.
That Is why democracy IL the hlgnest
Attainment OF humanity. The exclu-
sIye attitude IN politics and society and
In religion f. easy and natural The
democratic brotherly attitude can only
be achieved by conscious encrt' OF oy
Religious snobbery crops out In this
Sunday school lesson. which - the
story OF two persons whom the ortno-
dox called heather we ing .neM
solicitude, and subsequently, members
OF Ills fellowship and recipients OF
His praise
One OF the vivid travel experiences 10
a trip down along tue Mediterranean
coast 10 the region OF Tyre and Sidon.
The ruins OF old Phoenfcia, overiaid
with CRUSADER castles are hreauenl
turtles of =sandLs, mact one at every
turn. The cts " Sidon, one OF the
most distinctive and picturesque on
unchronicled antiquity. The tour. 90
full OF incident and interest recalls
the visit OF Jesus over that same roao
when.He broke over the boundaries OF
Israel and went into the heather parts
Like prince travelling trcognito.
| Jesus wanted TO 40 quietly and with
/ out public recognition But He could
t0f cour Sc not = Sues q llfa.of ministry
as His cannot be concsn!ed, Wherever
there is human need and spirit hunger
tit viii hunt Him out. Let anyone DO
| the world viii discover hlrl Oar trou-
bile II that we are trying TO inform
the world OF ourselves. rather than 10
/ live the life and do the work Because
Jesus was Himself II was Inevitable
/ that He should be known OF mon. The
| very radiance OF His benign face would
mark Him OF from TIRE mob OF men
| An Outiapders need sud 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 pervRJed
the East In Jesus time. and which is
/ til oh NasN 81 II
region. II was IN Sidon that a group
OF educated Christians poured out 90
me their bitter plaint against the in
justices and lndignitiee and outragcs
| they suffer at the hands Of tho Mos
lens. The simple fact that man L.
. Bop-Msslem marks him for possible
| massacre. Then. as now, racial and
! religious lines were hiSh barriers
Jesus. he II remembered. was a Jew,
who had come TO the lost sheep Of the
| house Of Israel One day He was met
| BY Greek woman, a dweller In this
fhesthen fringe 90 the Holy Land She
was GENTLE and pagan and Rccus-
toned TO hear from the orthodox Jews
the al pellation Of dog" But she had
deep human grief which took no ac-
count OF her nationality or rcligion.
The elemental human qualities run
through all colors. races and creeds.
! A. Shakespeare makes shyloek say
Hath not Jew eyes, hath not
Jew hands organs. dimensions senses
food. hurt with the same weapons sub.
Ject 20 the same diseases. healed BY
the same means warmed and ceote 4
by the same winter and summer as a
Christian isl
I This woman'V daughter was IN IN.
clutch efan evil spirit The predornl-
nant fact IN the family life was the
4 Illness of the child The supreme an
hiton OF mother and daughter was
health FOR the afnicted one so brush
i ing awRv all barriers that separated
the GENTLE from the orthodox lew she
lfeil ~ the feet OF Jesus and entreatedl
Him. with \ paroxysm OF urgency sucl,
ae only they who have encountered an
oriental beREar. or one asking FOR
fnercy. can understand n ~ q very
lrfRl and -hnman picture which the MIS-
IinK for hef chiid ffer great need haf
Eiven her great daring
Woman,s ouIck VIE.
Let rs not get Into antiquities over