Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-03
GAL|LEAN TELLS Of
LIFE OF SHEPHERD
Native of Palestine Speaks
To Full House at Meth
odist Church

ITO us in the East there is no dis
tinction between race, color or ma
tiOnality The line in demarkation is
between Christian, Jew, Moslem and
pagan" declared Stephen A. Habpush,
Galilean, who spoke Sunday evening
to an audience in union services of
Henderson churches, gathered to hear
him. The program was at the First
Methodist church
Il am not Jew, for a Jew is a
Jew by religion and not by race. BY
race he is Semitic. The Galileans are
also of this race" he added continu-
ing, IF I am converted Jew, then
you are converted Gentiles. My peo-
pie have been Christians for 1000
years.
Mr.. Haboush appeared dressed in
, the costume of a Galilean shepherd.
He was presented by the pastor of the
church, Rev. r. E. Brown. The in
vocation was by Rev. James A. Jones
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church. Evening services were call
ed in by the First Baptist, Presbyte-
rian and Methodist Protestant congre-
cations.
Mr. Haboush described the shepherd
life in Palestine, with it's interpreted
ton as given from actual experiences
threw new light on the 23rd Psalm.
when a small boy 1 was called
from school to tend my fathers flock
en- the hills overlooking the beautiful
Sea of Galilee. I had IS sheep and a
dozen goats and he added II never
shall forget those goats. Sheep are
very timid animals, also very intelli-
gent learning to answer to their
names Sheep know their shepherd by
Ills voice and his call. Always shep-
herd walks before his flock, leading
them, never does a true shepherd
drive his sheep. To protect them he
carries the rod and staff. He leads
j them beside the still waters, and sheep
quench their thirst c"y "a hours
This was at the noon hour, when sew
eral shepherd would come together
with their flocks, and after the sheep
had quenched their thirst, we shep-
herds would eat our lunch, and listen
to the tales of romance and of adven-
ture as told by the older shepherds.
This was indeed happy time, and I
always looked forward to this hour
with much pleasure"
'-Ine greatest gift of Palestine to
the world is the Bible, and whenever
l open and read it, 1 feel that 1 have
just received a letter from home It
is so warm, so real and so natural.
To better understand what mean, let
me add that in Palestine to this day
we still speak in parallels and that
NJ -.
III all these centuries.
There are two types of mind: the
| Eastern mind and the Western mind.
| The Eastern is mystical, meditative,
philosophic the Western is scientific,
inventive, industrial. Science and re-
llglon complement each other and
man must of necessity live by both"
ITO the East, life is an inheritance;
TO the West, an evolution induced by
persistent personal effort The civil
llzatlon of the one rests on agrlcul-
ture and religion the civilization of
the other on industry and education.
AS a result, the Fastener has become
the religious teacher of the whole
world, and the Westerner it's intellec-
tual and political liberator In saying
there is an Eastern and a Western
mind as two distinctive types of mind
do not mean that the people of the
East and the West should remain for
ever alien to one another My plea
is that they should understand one an
other alphabetically"
Friday night at o'clock Mr.. Ha-
boush with Madam Haboush and two
young men assisting, will present the
all-talking musical travelogue in the
high school auditorium under the aus
pices of the school athletic associa-
ton. There will be a matinee at
2.30 o'clock for the school children.
and for adults at 7:3O.