The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02

. efdDlt ldther, now dead, weeping for
 lovely mother. now heartbroken,
 weeping for the days when the flow
 CTS of hope were white as the snow | drops of her fathers garden. Faded
 now all the flowers. The white lilies
 have been burned as if by drops
 of acid All hope is prostrate and
 all happiness is dead
 True, it was a great painting, for
 the girl could not forget the look | in Jesus eye. Others would have
 stoned her, but His look, how ten l der! Every other hope was dead
 but the one she found in Him. At
 last, in an agony of despair, she
 puts aside all fear and shame. and
 rushing in. fell at His feet, and
 covered them with tears and wiped | them with her hair Then Jesus
 turned upon the rich man, Simon,
 and told the story of a certain cred
 itor who had two debtors, the one
 owing him fifty pieces of money and the other ten, and when either
 had aught to pay. both were forgiven
 And which would love him most? | Simon made instant reply: The
 one who was forgiven most" La
 ter. with exquisite skill. Jesus turn
 ed the incident upon Simon himself, | who, as host. had extended the outer courtesies while this woman had
 bathed His feet in tears and wiped them with her hair. Jesus ever 1 turns to that little flower that has been trampled under the feet, as
 if by human swine, and lifting the honeysuckle, he trains the vine upon the strong wall and guarding it well bids it grow and bear sweetest blossoms and exquisite perfumes. Put ing His hand in hers He lifts her up and calls her daughter. What a word was that, In it's utterance
 her whole wound was healed What | gold and gems could not do love
 wrought. Jesus treated her with | the tenderness that is filled with
 reverence He knew that the hidden heart was sweet, although the body
 was defiled As the artesian we'll is found in the bleaching desert, and flows forth for the good of all, so He knew that hidden in a shat tered body was heart that could
 respond to His love and flow forth to the world in a love akin to His
 own. Wicked men said her life was blighted forever, and that they,
 though guilty, knew no remedy, but
 Jesus calls forth Mary Magdalene | redeemed, destined to be the first
 the bonds of death and walk in the garden to meet his friends in tri-
 umph. Of a truth it is never too late to mend. Always there is some
 thing left to which the prophet of love can make a successful appeal. Away with this pessimism! Away ! with the idea that the social evil
 is necessary! Away with the note
 that fallen women cannot rise! AS long as there is place to plant a
 seed the sunshine of love will call
 forth the latent life. The flame
 may have died down in the ashes,
 but under the white dust are the
 coals ready to be famed into burn ing Any philosopher who is not as
 full of light as the sun regarding the human derelict is mistaken in the hope that Jesus holds out to those who want to be rescued from
 the terrible sin that weighs them down and seeks to hold them the lowest of the low. Wait until the Infinite God is dead before you write the note of despair about the hu
 man derelict, either of the scarlet man or the scarlet woman.
 The spirit of the reformer must be one of infinite pity and patience; one of constant compassion and hope. After the Chicago fire, when paper money was charred, the bills could not be separated by rough fingers, sometimes not even the thinnest knife could be used. Then an ex- pert breathed in between the char
 red bills, and upon the cushion of soft air lifted and separated the ire gile, ashy paper until the number of the bill could be registered for re- demption. With infinite tenderness and compassion Jesus approached the prodigal and the shining girl. Strange that sinlessness alone can be gentle in handling sin. Stranger still is it that as men go toward impurlty they go towards kindness to impuri- ty. That is the law of life Evil men believe everybody else to be impure. Men that can be bought believe that every man has his price No man is so critical of the orator as the man who cannot speak. The author understands his literary equal but the literary hack knows no mercy Simon and the Pharisees were bad through and through. and therefore were harsh towards the bruised flowers. Jesus, representing the uttermost of purity. is all ten dernes toward impurity. Nothing in ! all Jesus career is so revelatory | of the nature of God in His dealing 1 with rpop No historian jc inst who |