Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS

them. And they went to anoth-
er village"
As We Are
These quarreling Christians could
not hide their dissensions from their
Leader. He had u rare gift of sens,
ing motives. His interest was in the
spirit of things. 1t is meaty
morsel of Scripture which describes
Jesus as knowing the reasoning
that was in their hearts," We may
deceive Mrs. Grundy, and defraud
the income tax collector, and even
mislead the banks credit man; for
pearance, but the Lord looketh on
the heart" He knows us as we
really are. All transactions with
us are on the basis of this inner
reality. There is comfort as we'll
as warning in the lesson truth:
Christina Rossetti has expressed 1t in
a poem:
"Oh Lord, when thou didst call me,
didst thou know
My heart disheartened thro' and
thro'
Still hankering after Egypt full
Where cucumbers and MELONS grow?
Yes. I knew.
But, Lord. when thou didst choose
me. didst thou know
How marred / was and withered,
too,
Nor rose for sweetness nor for
virtue rue.
Timid and rash, hasty and slowH
Yes. I knew.
My Lord, when thou didst love me.
didst thou know
How weak my efforts were. how
few,
Tepid to love, and impotent to
Envious to reap, while slack to
SOW?
Yes. I knew.
GOOD Lord. who knowest what I
cannot know,
And dare not know, my false. my
true.
My new. my old; good Lord,
arise and do. .r
If loving. thou hast known me so.
Yes, I knew.
n CnlIdleSS Leaders Crccd
Public men. without home ties,
are singularly pathetic figures. They
have no refuge from the stress OF
activity. No little arms enfold their
necks, no childish prattle warns
their hearts, as they turn, wearied,
from the burdens of the common
welfare. To such, the missed joys
of domesticity shine with beautiful
luster. OF course, they do not COM
plain; whimpering is not a charac-
teristic of strong men. Occasional
ly, as in the case of the greatest
Publicist of all, we catch the note
of wistful appreciation of the char
acter of the child. Jesus, the child
less, homeless Champion of God.
sharply rebuked his ombltious fol-
lowers by pointing out that pride of
place was not comparable with the
simple, Suileless. sincere character
of the little child. Real greatness
is childlikeness.
Two startling propositions Jesus
then made, both running fatty
he identified himself with the cause
OF the child. Whatever is done unto
or for the child is done unto or for
the Christ Anybody who would
honor Christ. has but to serve child
hood anywhere. What vast causes
and institutions have been built upon
these few words of Jesus-tLe Sun
day school itself, the child labor
laws. modern education, orphanage.
and an immeasurable
philanthropy.
Then Jesus made the child the
test BY its attitude toward the
child religion was to be judged.
Civilization to-day has to accept the
esting. were there space, to work
out this great idea in relation to our
latest conception of the "emancipa-
ton" of women from the home: our
liberal views of divorce; our passion
for luxury or entertainments; our
red radicalism with respect to the
and conduct of society.
Judged by the child-test, where does
stand? This is the prov
ing of every large proposal affecting
human life; how does it affect the
child? Parroters of progressive"
thought, who have no place for Je-
sus, ignore the tremendous truth
that he who had no child of his own
has been history's one great friend
and helper of childhood.
a Blow For SectarianIsm
We reverence as saints and mar
tyrs the apostles of the early
but during their lives they
were a blundering lot of humans.
who received many a rebul<e from
their Master. In this compact les
son of to-day we have a timely
upon religious tolerance.
Iohn had come to the Leader eX-
ulting in his orthodoxy in forbiddiug
one not a member of their company
10 use the name of Jesus In casting
out demons. This youngest of the
apostles was early B. zealot and a Sec
tartan. We would not endure un-
teachings. Outside of his
group there was no regularity" It
was the same spirit that wanted
% call down fire upon the inhospit-
able Samaritans.
or modern parallels every neigh
has plenty. Here is a min
ster who fatty avows that he would
rather have half hundred perfume
tory attendants upon his own church
meeting than to have a thousand in
a community service. Less candid
Is the view that 1t is better for good
work to go undone If not done by a
organization. A city min
ister openly objected to publicity
in the newspapers because
he was not interested in getting
people to go to church generally:
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