Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-22

Mark ", 2b-S4. The scene OF this atory
is In Capernaum. Our Lord has but re
Gently returned from the country OF th
Gadarenes. on the other side OF the $,
Of Galilee On the way over He H.
stilled the tempest and while there b
had healed the Wild man who was file
with legion Of demons and the peop.
there had besought Him to leave Tn,
country as quick as He could. for IN
saving a man 1900 hogs had been lost,
and they didn't. want any more work
done for them at that price.
I can see some Of those old hog-raisets
wringing their hands and declaring that
the whole country is going 20 be ruined,
unless the Man who had sent their swine
gslloping headlong into the sea can be
persuaded TO depart from their coast, and
not cast out any more devils in their
pig-worshipinE land. What did It mat
ter Il homes were unhappy; Il women
and children were having 70 1--we in want,
fear and Indebtedness? What did IL
matter II men were being robbed Of their
manhood by the demons that possessed
them. and made like wild beasts. so
savage that they would break their
chains and ragged and wounded and
bloody would become a terror 10 all who
came near ANtm IN pidtt VI Nht uthus
What did Il matter II people were
sometimes killed. and homes were some
times burned down and much property
destroyed by these wild men? What did
IL matter n taxes were made higher by
the ravages caused by them? hogs had
been raised in untold numbers. Their
madness had never done the hog bust
ness any harm and the swine trade was
-
Didn't Il give employment 10 a lot OF
men who looked after them and fed
them. and took better care OF them than
they did Of their own wives and children?
destroy this blessed hog business and
down goes everything" they said. So
they wiped their weeping eyes on their
hogskin coat sleeves. threw up their
hands Imploringly. like a brewer just
before election, and besought Jesus 20
turn His back on them as quick as pos
siblc. for every minute He tarried moro
and moro hogs were rushed into tho sea-
4 blessed Business.
Isn't that Just like the whisky busi-
ness at this time? Oh. II IL q blessed
buslnessl Don't II give employment to
a multitude OF folks? Don't lawyers and
sheriffs and Jail keepers and contractors
WHO SUPPLY flNtHAlhIlSa ktl u INAu HNAue
from the stream of dollars Il turns their
way? Don't II bring men TO town to
trade? Don't It promote sociability and
good feeling among the peopief Don't
they shake hands more In the saloons
than they do In the churches? Don't
the license fees pave the streets and make
a lot OF public improvements and support
the scnools7 Don't II do this and doesn't
81 do that? You might have heard a good
deal OF that same kind OF talk about the
untold benefits OF the hog business that
day in oadara, as delegation after dele
cation came up to Jesus and besought
Him to depart out OF their coasts.
IL makes a lot OF difference in this
world as to whether we look at things
from hog standpoint or from a man.
hood or a womanhood and childhood
basis. The man who thinks more OF his
pigs than he does or his wife and babies
Is the DEVILS Idea OF what a husband and. I
father should be, You can bring hell
and heaven together when you can bring
whisky and Jesus Christ together. Hold
ing a dollar within an inch of a mans
nose will make him stone blind TO every
thing that IA good.
SO when the Gadarenes declared in
such unmlstakable terms that they pre-
ferred their hogs than decent men. Jesus
took them at their word. as He always
does. and returned with His disciples
across the sea. telling the man for whom
He had done so much TO 20 back to his
home and tell what great things had
been done for him II would make mighty
good reading II we could only know how
much that mans testimony hurt the hog
business Early the next morning. az
Jesus was taking His morning walk with
'IIs disciples. Jairus came TO Him with
great trouble In his heart and said: My
little daughter lieth at the point OF death.
] pray thee come and lay Thy hand ON
her, that she may be healed. and she shall
live" And Jesus. followed by a great
crowd OF people. started at once to so
with him. for there u no case on record
OF His turning a deaf ear to any father
or mother who went to Him In trouble on
account of child. and this ought to give
parents confidence in going to Him now
Tor their children. for He Il just the same
today as He was that morning when He
started 20 promptly for the home OF
Jairus.
How many little children In Gadara
were at the point of death when JeSus
was there. and who might have been
oaNcu bhoAh ucoAu uou not thclE uob-Fais~
ing fathers besought Him to depart out
OF their coasts. but those who would rath-
sr keep hogs than Christ cannot expect
TO see their children raised from the dead
The man who Is engaged in the business
of damning other peoples children has
nobody 10 blame but himself n his own
are lost for a curse that Is wilfully
turned loose on others is sure 20 return
ON him who sent Il.
"Not ~ Not Ii''
A Jesus and the great crowd led by
Jairus Is passing along the street sud
dealy the Master stops and says: who
touched meY and like children az school
when some wrong Is discovered. every
bsdy says. Not /. Not l." and Peter, IN
his usual brIsque and impulsive way,
says; why. Master. with all this crowd
80 close around You. how can You ask.
Who touched Mef'" And the next mo-
mont timid woman comes forward and
falls trembling az Hts feet and declares
with sobs OF 10Y before them all how
she had reached out and touched the
hem OF his garment and was healed OF a
trouble that had been eating away her
life for years
Perhaps Jairus may have chafed some
What At the delay caused by the woman
who thought - get a blessing without