The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-14
a MOVING PICTURE OF SALIVA.
TION.
The international Sunday School
Lesson for July - is Blind Barti-
maeus''-Mark 10:45.J2.

VItlHkS tIldL ne WOIfu Is going To tId
next October, is now giving "a series
OF free moving picture exhibitions
over the land, wherein he purportS
to show the whole scheme Of things.
from o through creation and
Calvary, clear up to the present
time.
Aside from the fact that chaos and
creation DO not lend themselves readl-
ly to the cinematograph, the idea is
in accordance with popular taste.
People like to see things in a picture.
They want truth told in stories. They
remember history in terms Of great
men. and great men in terms OF spe-
CifiC incidents.
SO we may take this familiar story,
which is assigned for today's Sunday
school lesson, as a summing up the
whole mission and message of jesus
the scheme Of salvation in an episode.
The characters are Christ, the crowd
and u blind beggar by the wayside
down in old Jericho, where death
awaited him within the week. Jesus
had the profoundest concerns of
etenity to engross his thought; but
he still had an eye for the needs OF
everyday people.
Theophists believed that everybody
has an aura" an im~palpable per-
sonality which it eXhales. They even
give this aura colors. The truth
IN thIS Wi
ception is that everybody -radiates
something of himself. A mans repu-
tation is a real aura, his
personality far beyond what he
knows Thus the good repute Of
Jesus had gone farther than ever his
footsteps a wandered. Kings on
their thrones and beggarS by the
wayside had heard Of this good man.
who was IL wise teacher and Il won
derful healer. Even DOC lowly Bar
timaeus, whose accustomef beggar
station was on the main highway OF
jericho, had heard the wonder tales
of the works Of Jesus.
The way a nan reputation may
travel in all directions, and dOwn int
the Sub-stratas of society, should give
him pause. Sometimes the trueSt "a j
praisal of a mans character may be
had from those who see it from the
under side. The Lowry person whom
you pass day after day has an est
mate of you that would perhaps exal'
or shrivel you pride. The good new:
which Jesus spoke and lived was car.
ried on the wings of eport in ever,
possible direction.
Before the Day of Asylums.
We have no parallel for Bartimaeu.
In our Western life. The blind beg
gar no longer sits by the highway, O
If he does, he is likely as not to b,
wealthy. We have better means o
caring for the needy than t~ruStin:
them to casual charity. Every stat
has its asylums for the blind, as 70
other deficients.
Poor Bartimaeus lived before tn,
day of asylums. He had to fend 70
himself. His wailing. whining pie;
was his only means of extracting
sCant livelihood from a world whicl
had not become tinged, as is ours
with the compassion of Christ. Tn
-.1 e - l.
Orient. as they are fixed in my mem
DRY, makes possible a menta pictur
of this abject creature by the way
side.
The only asylum of which Bart
macus could dream was Jesus him
self. There was no other. 1t
Christianity hat builds refugees fo
human need. SO the only hope {
this blind beggar was that some da
he might come into contact with tn
compassionate Healer and Wonde,
Worker.
The Faith That Sees Clearly.
Churches and preachers are ofte
ignored nowadays ty large section
of the community, but Jesus alwaA
created "a Commotion. Wherever r
went he was talked about. Rune
heralded his coming. Rune
thronged his path.
"'What means this eag,r, ankle,
tnTOHS,
Which moves with busy has
along
These wondrous gatherings day |
day?
What means this strange con
motion, pray?
In accents hushed, the throng repl
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by"
A scene was created when Jes
drew near the stand of this famili
wayside beggar. The abject Creatu
was deliriouS with excitement. II
dreams and desires were coming tru
Before ever the Master had draw
near him, his shrill. hysterical vol
was lifted high above the tumu'
Jesus, thou Son of David, ha
mercy on met"
Again and again, with inereasi
shrillness, his cry was reiterated.
the arkn of his mental isoIati
the~poer beggar had determined tn