The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-31

this social barter, with its endless
succession Of expensive and proitiess
obligations.
A radical reform was proposed b
Jesus. He said that the sensible and
useful hospitality is that which is be-
slowed upon the needy, and the So
c,ally non-elect. Pity the shallow
AMI ConyentionaliZed homes which
ne"er welcome TO their table anybody
from whom q return invitation r1ay
noe he expected. They miss the zcst
and Immediate rewards Of real 3ospi-
tality-to put the case on its lowest
basis--Lecause they who entertain
strangers sometimes entertain an
gels The guest who is Oh
~nobody's visiting list, often is the
most entertaining and proftabic.
Nayfarers often have an individuality
denied to the socially elect, who have
lived their commonplace lives IN q
commonplace way in q commonplace
community.
OF course. the teaching runs deeper
than this. The latest and wisest eX-
pert IN sociology is pointing out the
supreme place Of the individual home
IN all reform. If there were more at
tractlVe homes open to Young people
there would be fewer on the streets
and in the low places of amusement.
\ wise Christian hostess. administer
A-o IL oIil cS d tdItlil - goa, can
fix the ideals Of scores Of plastic
youth, and do truer service for the
state than the one who serves on
numbefleSS committees and works for
assorted reforms. ! know one Bos-
ton woman who was thus given to
hospitality" and now workers for the
worlds welfare, scattered all over the
earth, bless her as one CT the great
est influences in their lives. Back to
the home is q slogan tina will be
heard increasingly.
When Truth Crowds Uncomfortably.
A wee laddie known to me used to
try TO divert parental admonitions bv
saying, Lets talk about the yellow
cow When truth crowds home
change the subject Of conversation
one or the shrewd old Pharisees who
fecllned at dinner with Jesus. finding
the table ak rather too warm for
comfort, plously remarked, Selling
upon a phrase of Jesus, Blessed is
ne that shall eat bread in the king
uoni OF GOD he tried to use re-
lislon as a derailing SWITCH; just as
the church members whose business
mas crooked ramificatiOns cry Stick
10 the simple gospel when they find
themselves squirming under the
preachers application Of truth.
u%nctuous pharisaism only
stirred Jesus to sterner reproof. The
- ION-SlOuS SIt ODpSTN @
the leading Jews, which made them
sure that they were the elect, arous-
ed MS Indignation. The same sort of
SNUG assurance is found today at old
Ilberlas, where two Sects Of rabbits
nave theological schools. on the ira
oltlonal assumption that when the
Messiah appears he will rise ont of
the Lake Of Galilee, choose his lieu
tenants from the Tiberias theologians.
ana then proceed to the neighboring
NH or Safed to set up his throne.
just as he could be very tender to-
"afo lnners, so Jesus could be very
stern toward those who called them
serves SAINTS. Cried Frederic Law
renee knowles:
Gentle as she who nursed thee at
her breast,
yet what a lash of Iightnings once
they tongue,
To scourse the %hypocrite and Phari-
SEED
Nerve thou mine arm q meek q
mighty One"
Countering full and fairly against
the plous ~snobbery of the Pharisee
Jesus told a story to illustrate that
' the nrst chosen might be the finally
ielt' Ihls parable of the great sup
per looks two ways: it is a rebuke to
oiN All u the
multitude. In passing, the old obser-
Vatlon may be repeated that the Mas
Ter mere once more presents the king
dom invitation in the guise Of a feast.
Goa has spread his finest repast in
the gospel of His Son.
The Free for all Feast.
All things were made ready by the
IoSt: the feast was spread. That was
the hosts party. His chosen failed
IN thelrs: they did not come when
called. The invitation was fouted
ohall a man spurn God? That is h
Is oeins done every day. The Great
invitation is rejected, with excuses
as tr~ansparently false as those Of
lefed In the lesson today.
one man had bought a field. and
must go look at it as if men exam
med land after purchase. instead Of
oe1ore: Another pleaded that he
must try out a new yoke of oxen
"hich OF course. should have been
tested before purchase. The third
q married a wife: and so. as a set
tea memee Of The community.