Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-02
TRUTH IS OLD AS
TIME, SAYS ELLIS
Sunday School Lesson Sets This
Forth in Graphic, Rather
Tragic Manner

A LONELY LEADERS, LESSON
The international Sunday School Les.
son For january Is "Jesus and
the Children" Mark. s:S0-41;
(By William T. Ellis)
What terrible lonelinessi" cried
Carlyle. after meeting Queen Vic
tor1a- A recent student of President
Wilson's character and work made
the same observation. The truth is
as old as the existence Of great men
In great place: Kipling presents it
wildly in the poem of "Diego Val
dez Lord High Admiral of Spain"
our present Sunday School lesson,
the first in the years series of the
Life of Christ, sets 1t forth graphi-
cally and rather tragically.
Every Observant person must have
been struck by the spectacle of a
great president, engrossed with vast
concerns of patriotism in a. critical
thought to filing a multitude of
small offices, and being torn by the
chorus Of contending aspirants.
Psuedo-great men, In like case, have
spurned the hungry horde. with
maledictions upon their smallness
and sordidnes
Not so the greatest. To be pa
tent with petty people. to acquire
their viewpoint, to accept them as
they are. and gradually to help them
to become what they ought to be-
that is the Jesus way, as set forth in
this lesson. 1t is the program of the
true greatness, which is forever tinged
With the compassionate father spirit.
When You Are Not Understood
strong men do not often pour out
their souls, in search of sympathy.
To share the burden of ones spirit
with a sympathetic friend Is, at
some time or other, the desire. of
everybody And that is one office Of
friendship. So Jesus. after the trans
fguration, opened the floodgates of
Ills innermost being to the little
group closest to Him. They We're his
dearest friends, His intimates. Who
would deny Him this boon of friend
ship. the confessional of comrade-
ship? Therefore He unveiled to
them the vision that was ever before
His own eyes, of Gethsemane, the
Judgment hall. Golgotha and the
tomb. This was His passion. the su-
preme and engrossing concern Of
His life. He must share it with His
friends, for His own sake and for
theirs The very deeps of that great
soul were opened up to the vision
of the twelve.
put tlltN ulu not understand. InlS
was, indeed, treading the wine
press alone. In EXTREMIST degree
then was repeated the experience of
all great spirits. when they speak on
one plane and are interpreted on an
other; when the finest that Is in
them is received in the coarsest
fashion. Nothing is commoner than
this experience of being mimsunder-
stood There Is no need to consider
ones self a martyr because of 1t.
Jesus, like all who have followed In
His train. plumbed the depths OF
this ordeal.
Observe well how He behaved.
The overwhelming burden on His
soul, and the unappreciativeness of
His friends, did not embitter Jesus.
nor blind Him to the life about Him.
Our sorrows and our joys may not be
permitted to eclipse our neighbor's
needs Nothing can be an excuse for
forgetting other people. They are
not to be ignored, and they are to
be taken as they are.
The Squabbling Saints
If in all Capernaum that day
there was any really good society,
any spiritual perception. any Christ