Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26

avenues OF commercial approach, but
their thought was not a gaining Of the
world. but rather getting of what the
world had.
ciai race and age. Sensuality is always
companion of ready money The sailor
pack from the sea; the merchant full
1eo and opulent; the idle and pleasure
seehing, money-made aristocracy turn to
sensuality as water seeks the sponge.
War w fares the land. to gathering ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
Thus did the wondrous Tyre. which
ouilded Carthage. full a thousand miles
away, and spread her wares i'm ali
the markets of the world. begin to die.
at home. that moral death which oft
prophets of the one true God were cry
ing out against the gross and sordid
commercialism of Tyre and Zidon and
pointing their proclamation with predic-
ions that seemed impossible to those who
heard them. but which are real enough to
US who see upon the sands when tides
are low the coraltinted marbles of the
palaces and shrines whose grandeur
decked the brow of money-mad Phoenicia
Lhey rose to greatness by those steps
winch never fail to lead to power-hardi-
mood, zeal and tireless industry. They
sank to ruin by those sins which sap the
energies of nations and of men-greed
OF gain. the substituting of bribery for
and sensual indulgences which cloud the
mind and sap the powers of man.
The religion of Tyre and Zidon was
rhoenician in every sense. except that as
they came in contact with the gods of
other lands they added here and there a
name or attribute, borrowed to add it's
ulster to their land and gods
But the practices of that religion were
SO vile that one of the goddesses took
girls. Another must have human sacri-
fces. burned. Can any land rise higher
than its gods?
Into the coasts of Tyre and Zidon, in
the AFTER years, came Jesus of Nazareth
70 work miracle whose setting is so ex-
quisite and whose lesson so applicable to
every age and individual that we may
stop Tor moment to recall it's incidents.
- Lord, thou son of David" she cried.
a devil" Without one word or look He
passes on. Again and again she utters
her complaint. until at length the disci-
pies lmpatiently demand of Him to "send
her away, for she crieth after u.s." Poor
men: they cannot see that He is testing
her faith and their charity.
lie stops-.I am not sent but unto the
lost sheep OF the house of Israel"
Lord. help me!'
1t Is not meet to take the children's
bread and cast 1t to the dogs"
truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from their masters
table,"
With deep regard for such a mighty
and persistent faith He stops to grant
an answer SO complete as to constitute
the most sweeping and unreserved Of all
His bestowals: 20 woman. great is thy
faith; be 1T unto thee even as thou wilt
And her daughter was made whole from
that very hour"
To Tyre came Paul on his last journey
to that coast; and there for one full week
he stopped to preach and build anew the
faith of those who trusted Jesus Christ
AS We shall walk upon the beach at
Zidon and mark the ruins of forty CEN
turtles We shall find much to hold our at
tention, for out of some Of the very stones
GUS Christian mission houses built, both
Catholic and Protestant, the rest of the
numbering some 1000, being
Moslem and Maronite.
At Tyre some fifty or one hundred
wretched fishermen, with their miserable
families, live on the bleaching bones of
persisted palaces and find its rocky site.
as had been prophesied, "A place on
which to spread their nets.
Like Paul we may we'll spend a week
at Tyre and Zidon; sleeping our souls in
that strange atmosphere that haunts the
ruins of departed greatness But no
matter what impressions we gather from
fallen Intel and broken column, We shall
see IN the desolation Of these one-time
busy sites q warning to this gross COM
mercial age, its ready money and its
sensuality And we may well take to our
own hearts that lesson which the Master
taught here long ago. when He bestowed
upon persistent faith a blessing equal to
it's greatest need. and by that very act
rebuked His followers. who would have
sent the needy soul away.