The Alaska citizen., 1916-03-20

Emersons. no Hawthornes, no Web sters. Originality comes only when such Is necessary. Knowledge is power only when it is second nature Men have become too much like phOnographA repeating what they have heard Today we lack patrio- tism. Of course, We are patriotic in a way, but not in the way that will bring results desired. We are patriotic to fancies rather than great principles of truth. Today is a time when We are apt to tell the other fellow to be patriotic if ther, are burdens to bear and loads ;o lift. Jesus vas a true patriot. fog he took the real truths of life and
 clothed them in sandals, making living things
 III. Contact with ether peopl" made Jesus broadly cosmopolitan
 In His day the caravans moved
 north and south as they came an l went from all the marts of Egypt and the east, of Egypt and the west bled in convention in His city. Here was a seat for the Roman courts A few miles walk and He could
 go to the cities along the shores of Galilee, where but three cen
 turies before Alexander having con Cuered that land, had planted Greek
 the spade of the eXCavator. Often
 Jesus must Lave studied the doric
 temples and admired the chiseleC
 marble; passed into the libraries
 of the city and read from many manuscripts. Had He been reared in Jerusalem he would have failed ill the broad learning possible l.
 this cosmopolitan place. He could talk with the Roman judge; watch
 the caravans moving to and flo'l Egypt to Rome on the west anC
 Damascus on the east; hnger about the tents of the Bedouins to tall
 to their chiefs, from the lips oi
 the Roman messenger hear the lateS news from Rome. Under sucn in fluence he passed the plastic days
 of childhood and youth. To His great mind all these things were as gigantic privileges to know the
 world and its needs. At a CriticaI hour in His history the people would have taken Him and made
 Him king, but His was to be
 King in due time over Kingdom
 that will spread from sea to sea
 He seems the idea for the Saxon
 the Teuton, the Slav, while men of
 dusky hue of brown and coppel
 nave found in Him the One alto
 gether lovely. No spot could havf
 been found that would have SC
 tended to break down the provinCia,
 spirit and make a youth broac enough to enter into the true spiri,
 # the universe.
 ". Three languages gave Jesus medium whereby he could broaden
 His intellect and understand the races Every traveller has noticed how the boy On the border country soon learns to talk in the languages
 of the two countries. So Jesus
 easily learned the languages of Greek Hebrew and Arabic. Of ne cessity, therefore, was placed or the cross the superscription in He brew, Greek and Latin, so varied were the tongues spoken in the city of Jerusalem. In Alexandria | 50 years before the birth of Jesus Julius Caesar found a library Q | 100000 manuscripts. In Rome at the same time was published daily paper called the Acta Diuna, each issue written out in long hand by l literary slaves. with but handful | of subscribers. There was a book seller in Thebes who left 3O,O0O ! volumes Papyrus was cheap. The | people of that time loved to put
 everything they thought on paper
 would that those times might re turn-and Cicero left 300 letters. Tn
 such time Jesus lived to find the | thoughts of men and compare them
 with the thoughts of God
 | V. Poverty. suffering and sorro"
 had much to do with the education.
 of Jesus This taught Him pity
 and compassion He never could
 ave been lfc man that He was
 without this training. Two-thirds
 of the world are con.Ieiled by the l conditions of government to live in | poverty, suffering and sorrow. T' | understand such people one must
 enter into the things that they
 nave gone through or they will fail in any mission of truth ln.'' 1af
 of denying sickness He healed the
 sick instead of denying death H, said, Lazarus is dead" and went tt
 restore him to life; instead Of de
 nying sorrow He wept with others
 and wept alone over the city oi
 Jerusalem; instead of denying pity
 and compassion He saw the multi
 ,,,;+ho,,. ebapbard II