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A BLOW AT BIGOTRY
International Bible Lesson for
May 23, oo (Acts 15: 1-35).;
The book of Acts opens In the Jew
l.ih city of Jerusalem and ends In
Imperial Rome, And the contents 0
the book are chiefly occupied with tho
story of the rise and progress of Chris
tianity from the heart of Judaism, to
a place In the capital of the world. At
first It seems to he only one form of
Judaism. Its founder was a Jew, his
disciples were Jews, and the new doc
trines were preached at first exclusive
ly to Jews. But when we reach tho
end of the book we find that the new
faith has burst Its early limitations.
Gentiles ererywhere have been gather
ed Into the fold, and Instead of look
ing upon a phase of Jewish religion,
we behold a faith adapted to all man
kind. Shipwreck Avoided.
But In order to bring about that re
sult the church had to pass through
an experience like a ship In the break
ers on a lee shore, only escaping an
awful shipwreck through the able sea
manship of those who were In control
ot affairs. The trouble ame because
of the narrow bigotry of the Jewish
converts. When the Gentiles began
to apply for admission to church mem
bership they Insisted that they must
conform to the Mosaic law and ob
serve the customs of the Jewish
church or they could not be saved.
One of the hardest lessons for men to
learn Is to unlearn and act contrary
to early Impressions and convictions.
They become so much a part of our
mental and spiritual structure that It
reems like tearing down a part of
ourselves to brenk Rway from these
ld'!!s. Therefore those Jewish con
Trrts, though acknowledging that the
Mosaic yoke was one which neither
their fathers nor they wero able to
bear, yet Inconsistently insisted on
putting It upon the necks of the Gen
tile disciples. When they saw other
people rejoicing In the liberty where
with Christ had set them free, they
pIcKed up that ancient yoke, and said,
"You must bear this as we do."
Against such a pernicious doctrinn
Paul protested with all his might, and
lie was supported by some of the lead
ers who had had their eyes opened to
the truth. In consequence the first
church council was held at Jerusalem
and it was unanimously decided that
trio work of the old dispensation had
been finished; that Christ was tho
end of the law for righteousness to
every one that belleveth, and thus
with their own hands these converted
Jews steered the ship of Christianity
out of the breakers never to be In dan
ger of shipwreck at that point.
Caterpillar vs. Butterfly.
That was the death blow of bigotry,
and yet tho old veteran was not slain,
through all the ages ho has been able
to got In more or leas of his work. The
icmalns of that narrow, self-righteous,
excluslveness bothered tho church for
generations. Paul wrote a whole
epistle, Galations, to show that there
was no salvation by the works of the
law, and that Christian believers were
under no obligations to It In any par
ticular. As well might a new born
butterfly carry around with It its old
caterpillar existence, and attempt to
fly and crawl at the same time. The
Jewish Christians from force of habit
and because of affectionate veneration
for the past, for a long time dragged
along their Jewish customs. But as
time wore -on they dropped them one
by one, and came to Paul's standard
which he describes "as not having the
righteousness which Is of the law, but
that which is through the faith of
Christ."' The butterfly does not de
nounce' and condemn the caterpillar,
The Gentile Christians did not de
nounce Judaism, they simply had no
use for It. They were living In a new
dispensation, they wt-re worshipping
a living redeemer, thty hud got be
yond the alphabet, they saw no par
ticular need of venerating the scaf
folding when they had the building it
self, they did not make the mistake
of putting new wine into old bottles,
or sewing on new patches to an old
garment. They had .new wine, and
new garments, and new promises, and
new priesthood, their Master had de
clared, Behold I make all things new.
Tyrant's Bedstead.
It la said of an ancient tyrant that
he had an iron bedstead which he
fitted to every one of his victims by
the simple expedient of sawing off the
long and stretching out the short to
bring them Into the proper length,
There is the Bpirit of bigotry sym
bolized. 'Get some peculiar idea In
your head and then insist on stretch
ing out or sawing off everybody to fit
that notion. It matters not what it Is.
It may be a mode of baptism, it may
be the observance of a day, It may be
a statement of theology, It may be a
cl .lin of infallibility, it may be a form
of ordination. All it needs is fanati
cism enough to Insist that a certain
thing la essential to salvation and you
have got a bigot, full-fledged and con
troversial on your hands. The old
colored Baptist preacher could find
baptism by Immersion taught In every
text of Scripture, and when some one,
on a wager, gave him the text, "'The
voice of the turtle Is heard in tho
land" his interpretation was instantly
available. The voice of the turtle Is
the uolso the animal makes In plung
tag oft the log into deep water, and
It tMofaea baptism by immersion as
pain as language can express ideas.
A WEED EATINQ CREEPER.
It Protect the Rubber Plant from the
Lalang.
It appenrs that at last an antidote
has been found to the noxious weeds
which are so frequently the death of
certain forms of plant and vegetable
lift In the East. Specimens of this
wonderful "find" havo been forwarded
to the authorities at Kew Gardens.
This plant Is a blue flowering creeper
botanlcally known as the Commellna
dudiflora llnnea, but called "rumput
gremah" by the natives of Malaysia
and "ge-war-an" by the Javanese. .Al
though the report mada nt Kew goe.i
to show that this creeper Is common
throughout the middle Hast, It would
seem that the managers of estates and
plantations have not known of Its pe
culiarly welcome properties until very
recently and accidentally.
The prolific weed known as "Inlang"
is the great enemy to rubber growth.
It was the accident of observing that
where the blue flowered creeper came
in contact with the lalang the latter
became much less Injurious that In
duced a planter to send specimens (o
Kew. It seems that at first one be
gins to notice that the weeds are be
coming less prolific where the creeper
Is growing among them. This Im
provement steadily Increases as time
goes on and it has been found that
under the Influence of this antidote
lalang which was formerly four or five
feet in height has been reduced to
only one or two feet when It starts to
flower.
But the Joyful discovery having
been mado that here was an undoubt
ed setback to the weedy growth that
chokes young rubber and is the bane
of the planter's llfo, tho qucxtlon
arose: Won Id the antidote itself exer
cise a prejudicial effect on the rub
ber? Therefore the specimens were
duly submitted to Kew, and, as stated
to our representative, the new creeper
is unlikely to have any harmful effect
on young rubber trees." Planters all
over the East may therefore take
heart of grace and also take this new
"medicine."
In appearance the blue flowered
Commellna nudiflora Is rather pretty,
and like the weeds which It first
checks and then kills it grows with as
tonishing rapidity. The particular es
tate whose manager made the discov
ery and acted upon it so promptly and
satisfactory Is the Langkon estate, in
British North Borneo. The amount
of rubber produced annually in the
Straits Settlements Is of course very
large, and the results of the discovery
and Its successful application are like
ly to be far reaching.
A True Pigeon Story,
A gentleman had two pairs ot
pigeons living in dovecots placed side
by side. In each pigeon family there
was a father and a mother bird and
two little ones. On a certain day the
parents in one dovecot went away to
get food, and while they were gone
one of their little birds tell out of the
dovecot and down to the ground. The
poor baby bird was not much hurt,
strange to say, but it could not get
back, for it was too young to fly.
Now, the parents in the other dove
cot were at home when this happened,
and it seemed as If they said to them
selves: "One of our babies might fall
out in Just that way. We must do
something to make the dovecot safer."
And then this wise, careful father and
mother went to work. They flew
about until they found some small
sticks. These they carried to their
own dovecot, and there in the door
way they built a cunning little fence
of sticks, not so high but that the lit
tie pigeons could look over It, but
high enough to keep them from ever
falling out of the dovecot as their lit
tie neighbor had done. The owner of
the pigeons, who had seen the bird'
ling fall and had put it back into its
dovecot, watched the birds the whole
time as they gathered the sticks and
built the fence across the doorway,
This is a true story, and it is often
told to some children In Boston by a
lady who knows the owner of these
very pigeons.
A Man Who Never Speaks.
Because he was reprimanded for
talking too much when he was a boy,
John S. Smith, of Kansas City, has
not spoken for twenty-seven years. He
Is not a recluse, and he does not re
frain from conversation with those
around him, but he "talks" with a pen
cil and pad only.
Smith Is a contractor and builder,
and frequently has orders to give to
his employees. These he always gives
In writing. When questions are asked
he replies in writing, and he and his
workmen get on amazingly well to.
gether, better, he asserts, than If he
spoke to them. St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
What They All 8ay.
How we label the man whose opin
ions don't coincide with ours when
our opinions are based on money:
Yes, he's an able fellow, but of
course everyone knows that he's a lit
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