South Bend news-times., 1922-10-29
Sunday M0rning Breakfast Talk
By ReU. Elmer Yard Cole


ification OF the Christ life "Au the
world loves a lover and when the
world knows the Church loves them,
not for what they have. but for
themselves alone. then We will sue
ceed IN the great battle against sin
and not until then. As Christians II
Is our duty TO love everybody and 10
take the great world BY the hand and
lift II into the life of the Master.
The Church or the Christian who
criticises any man because OF his
poverty or his ignorance or his lack
OF the little necessities OF life is in
damuabIe business We need 70 live
by the side OF the road and as the
great world goes by TO give the cup
Of cold water in the Masters name
and on how quick the world will re-
spond.
Did you ever read the poem The
House by the Side OF the Road"
written by sam Walter Foss? Well.
! am going TO attach It here al the
close OF this little homily but first
want 20 tell you how It came TO De
written. Mr.. Foss was an enthusiast
tic traveller and in one Of his trips
through England he came at the top
OF a long hill. TO a little unpainted
house set almost in the road. on one
side OF the house was a queer little
sign post and painted crudely upon
II were the words, Come in and
have a cool drink" Following the
well vorE path he found IN the side
OF the bank some distance from the
90 rafroah n q
water into which a barreH had been
sunk. AMI above which hung an old
fashioned Eourd dipper. and on
bench near Dy-a wOnder-was a
basket OF delicious apples with an
ether sign Help yourself
Seeming a story he went back 10
the house where he found a childless
old couple in Strengthened circum-
/ stances, with the rocky farm as their
only source of livelihood. But IL was
rich in the delicious spring water
and an abundance OF fruit and so
the sign was placed guiding TO the
water. and from the ripening of the
/ first purple plum to the harvesting
OF the last red apple, basket OF
whatever fruit might be in season
was placed near, that every one pass
ing might rest upon the long hill and
/ refresh himself The old gentleman
i explained that they were too poor
to g.ve money so took this way to
add Their mite 10 the worlds well
doing. The beautiful thought and
the real helpfulness so impressed
Foss that he immortalized with his
pen the spirit of the real home.
There are hermit souls that live
withdrawn
In the place Of their self-content;
There are souls, like stars. that dwell
apart,
In a fellowless armament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze
their paths
Where highways never ran;
But let me liye by The side Of the
road,
And be a friend to man.
Let me live in a house by the side
OF the road,
Where the race of men go by;
The men who are good and the men
who are bad,
AS good, and as bad as 1.
I would not sit in the scorner's
Il seat
Or hurl the cynic's ban;
Let me live in a house by the side OF
the road
And be a friend TO man.
Il see from my house by the side OF
the road
BY the side OF the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of
hope,
And men who are faint with their
strife.
But / turn not away from their
smiles or their tears.
Both parts of an infinite plan:
Let me live in a house by the side OF
the road.
And be a friend to man.
II know there are brook -gladdened
meadows ahead
And mountains of wearisome
height,
And the road passes on through the
; long afternoon.
d. And stretches away 20 the night
But still rejoice when the travellers
rejoice
r And weep with the strangers thai
moan
r Nor live In my house by the side Of
the road
Like a man who dwells alone.
! Let me live in my house by the side
OF the road,
Where the race OF men go BY;
r They are good. they are bad, they
: are weak. they are strong.
Wise, foolish and so am I.
r Then why should 1 sit in the scorn-
er's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban7
Let me live in my house by the side
OF the road,