The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-22
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JESUS LEAGUE OF PITY.

And lie called unto Him Hi. twelve disciples Matt. lO:l
 Not all great leaders succeed 2, some fail because the end proposed is unworthy. and some because the method is not practical Here is Garrison. his object is the immedi, ate. unconditional emancipation Of thc slave and his method is agita- press Here is Horace Mann; his object k to make education so uni versal that every voter can decide for himself upon social truth econ omic truth and financial truth. his method is the public school. Here IS Jesus. His object is to secur" happiness. righteousness and peace for every heart His method is the League of Pity The world had and destined to be so victorious. In an era of armies and synagogues. He passed hy military power and cold creeds and did not build a church In an age Of form, policy ceremony and ecclesiastical bigOtry, His ambition is nothing short O. a worldwide transformation. Pity must have personal contact or touch Jesus possessed that touch. b, in tact with Him were changed 10 things of usefulness and stability. He also communicated that power 10 His disciples.
 History yindicates Jesus plan At first there was but one Christian, Christ He had achieved for Him self righteousness, peace. love, and His object was to have this 10 con t!nue in the world by living dis was One Servant, then twelve s"r- wants in the world. and suddenly there were three thousand and III six days there were four thousand more servants Then persecution struck a heavy blow and the faith spread like wildfire When the smiths hammer falls heavy upon the iron the sparks fly in all directions, and when persecution fell upon the disciples they scattered and flying like sparks they became flames of light shining in every corner of the dark world. Each disciple turned his back on Jerusalem and started to carry the gospel into the uttermost parts of the world. The ambition of each was to achieve a violent death and to fall as far from Jerusalem as he was able to carry the good news of salvation. First ,O go over to the truth were tn" slaves, the peasants, the gladiators Saul, the greatest mind of his day was caught captive in the trium phant procession of Jesus. Then came the scholars and philosophers Growing anxious emperors deter mined to tear up by the roots the new faith and SOW the very soil with salt Soon the swords flashed in the air the chains rattled, the scourge sent forth it's sharp hiss and fagot fires cracked in the wind. The more the wind of op position blew the more the divine fire spread. The better the emperor the more cruel the persecution. When a drunken, lustful vicious emperor came to the throne he cared only for his vile appetites and he let the f@ith spread. The good emperor patri otic and proud for the old Roman type, was jealous for the Pantheon and its gods. He flung himself witt fierce fury against the young dis ciples, who, defending all others, no} CT sought to defend themselves. bu' lions mouth, praising God that they were worthy. Soon the columns O light and the pillars of fire were seen to the south, in Africa, to the east on the shores of the Blacl sea, and then the story was tolc beside the camp fires in Hollan' and to the Saxons.
 Victory was not content to remail at home It must spread whereve man is found. The new faith begaI to cross the ocean and leap iron island to island and from continen to continent. like prairie fire tha leaps across a forbidden space. Ev erywAere it went it destroyed hate strife, slavery, the exposure of lit tie children, lies. theft. drunken ness and every form of human III Men know the difference between sand and gold; the hungry wayfare prefers honey to gall; children leaN the path to grasp the tinted leat and people with their tired. wistfu souls flung themselves like fan ished pilgrims upon the purple clu' ters of God and were fed. The res less found rest. the hopeless foun hope and the dying lost their feal The whole world was transforme until now there are seven hundre millions of nominal hristians, an saop tbare uill he A thousand mi