SECOND SECTION. FRIDAY EVENING,
—HARRISBURG r KT A Kflfi \PH APRIL 10,1914.
MEN'S MOODS OFT
BLIND JHEIR EYES
Only Rare Souls Have Capacity
of Holding Always to
* the Troth
The Internationa] Sunday School lies
son For AprU 12th la "The Journey
to Kin ma us." Luke 24: 13-35.
(By Wm. T. EHis.)
Two men are walking with lowered
leads toward the west. Their feet
ire heavy, as If weighed. Dejection is
written In their face, their attitude,
heir tones. The fresh gray of the
slive orchards by the roadside has
;io beauty for them. They are blind
:o the effulgence of the Spring flowers
which carpet Judea's hills. A mood of
iepreasion is upon them, like a black
:loud.
Behind them lies the city of David,
s-here they had expected to see, at
his very time, the wonder of wonders,
he consummation of the hopes of the
lation, the assumption of kingly power
>y the long-expected Deliverer.
Instead they had seen Him who was
heir hope executed as a common
riminal. The leaders of the nation
rhich they expected He would restore
lad been foremost in the dreadful
leed. Their gentle prophet was dead.
I'lirough two long nights and a Sab
•atli between that awful reality had
frown clearer and clearer. Portents
n the sky had attended His death,
.übstantiating His claims. All to no
vail. He now was dead; they had
een Him laid in Joseph's new tomb.
Now nothing remained but to take
ip life's common round, a supreme
lope extinguished. These two men be
unged in the procession of disap
>ointed ones, who nevertheless re
life's duties in grim fortitude
ilsa faithfulness, even when all the
amps of the soul have gone out. Un
il this third day they had remained
wth the company of comrades of
esus; now they must go back to Km
naus, their village Lome. High
lopes had been extingushed, but at
■ast blessed routine called them. And
is they walked, they talked of what
niglu have been.
When the Mood Is Gray
It was like the ride home from the'
emetery, was this seven-mile jour- ,
iey. The dear dead was the theme,
'lie words, the little familiar tricks
voice and manner, the kindly
Houghtfulness, the great deeds of
esus, their crucified leader, filled
heir conversation. Over all hung the
ray pall, "It might have been!"
Discouragement never sees clearly,
'he mood of these men blinded their
yes. The great gift of holding to a
ruth through all sorts of weather
us not theirs. Only rare souls have
his capacity. As I write these lines
sit propped up in a bed of illness,
nd outside the rain is falling; there- !
ore, the. Easter note of Jubilation,
oes not sound so spontaneously as
he lesson demands. A week hence I
lay forget that the sky was ever gray. I
The disciples did not "feel" their
as if their feelings had aught
u do with the immutable love of God i
r the changeless truth of Christ. De- J
ression is always a foil to faith. |
'hysical moods blind us to spiritual
ealities. The mental attiude of those
wo disciples intervened like a thick
eil between them and a clear vision
f their Lord.
The Talk by the Way
For the stranger who joined them
) their walk, in the easy, familiar
nd democratic fashion of the plain
eople, was none other than the
isen Christ Himself, though they
new it not. He slipped naturally into
1e talk, with a few searching ques
ons, and they told him all—their
opes, the tragedy of the crucifixion,
leir despondency, and the unsettling
umors concerning thoes who had been
arly at the grave, which they found
mpty.
Then, to their amazement and joy,
lis new-found companion began to
iden their knowledge by showing
•om the Old Testament that it was
IUS the Messiah should die and rise
gain. These men belonged to the
irge company of Christians unfa
with the study of the Bible,
ike many others, they were discus
ng the profundities of religion in
rnorance of the teachings of reli
ion. A little less speculation and a
ttle more reading of the Bible, would
lear up most of our spiritual per
lexities. We miss a primary teach
ig of this particular lesson, unless
e learn afresh the importance of
>oking Into the Bible for authorita
ve teaching upon religious themes,
hrist began His ministry by quot
ig Scripture; here, risen and trl
mphant. He still finds in the Old
estament sufficient explanation of
imself.
Hospitality and a Conseqncnce
If the wayfarers had not hospitably
ressed their companion to enter their
ome, they would never have known
rnt the Lord Himself had walked by
leir side. How much we miss when
e fall of hospitality! In the bless
ig of the frugal meal, and In the
•eaking of the bread, their eyea were
jened. Perhaps they saw the prints
' the nails In His hands; perhaps It
as a familiar gesture; perhaps the
sw attitude at the meal gave them
clearer vision. Somehow, they knew
lm. Their faith established, the
aster disappeared.
The story of the lesson has been re
ild In verse by Lily P. Ponder, with
3 application to our daily life.
)'«r calm Judean hillsides, sloping
slowly from the west,
le purple shadows, lengthening, gave
promise soon of rest;
U beautiful the landscape lay, be
neath that chastened light,
Tiich in the lovely Orient precedes
tb« fall of night.
"Votn out the fair Jerusalem, where
softened splendor shone,
pon the road to Emmaus, two men
went forth alone;
jjth grieving hearts and voices
bushed, they sadly spoke of Him
hose recent death on Golgotha made
even the heavens dim.
i stranger came beside the two, and
as He walked their way,
Ith sympathy He asked what grief
upon their spirits lay; i
len, wond'rlng that He had not
heard, they told Him of the cross,
>eir Master's ignominy, and their
own dismay and loss.
apt their companion chided them,
and showed them this must be,
ow Jesus thus must give His life to
make His people free;
»d many a passage quoted He, from
prophecies of old,
> prove that all these happenings
were as had been foretold.
(Then they had reached their des
tined place, the stranger would
have passed,
it kindly urged to enter in, He went
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with them at last;
The daydust from their feet vra.t;
bathed, the evening meal WOP
spread,
When, lo! they see their Master, in.
the breaking of the bread.
"We, too, ilo sometimes travel on the
Emmaus road of life.
Away from hopes so lately dead,
weighed down by sorrow's strife;
And mourning bitterly the loss of!
what our soul had loved.
We wonder why our armored plans so
vulnerable have proved.
"A Presence walks beside our way, we
think we do not know,
. Goes with us on the path we tread
I with saddened steps and slow;
But when we ask Him aa a guest to
sit beside our board.
Our eyes, no longer holden, see it is j
our risen Lord."
The Immortal Hope
1 Through the eyes of the two Em
maus disciples we glimpse the glor
ious truth of the resurrection, and
that "He is risen." This is the most i
precious teaching of the New Testa
ment. A contemporary essayist, E.
S. Martin, has freshly expressed the .
place of this belief in life.
"Beliefs of great strength and in- 1
fiuence may lie dormant in the mind, <
unresponsive to surface questionings,!:
but accessible to the deep probings of ] j
great crises. So it is likely to be with
the belief of mortals in their ability | <
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to survive death. It is the natural
belief of people of our race and reli
gion. We are born to it, and unless
we wholly neglect it, or have thought
long and deeply to eradicate °nd re
ject it, we live with it and with
it.
"And it is an invaluable item of
our Inheritance, an indispensable as
set of our civilization. Men do not
go along through life just the same,
whether they believe in a future life
or not. The perspective is different;
the man who counts himself Immor
tal, or able to attain Immortality, is
bound to have a larger patience with
earth, a somewhat mitigated appetite
for earthly valuables. He is bound
to care a little less for the things he
must leave behind and more for what
he may take with him.
"And what is true of a man is true
of a race or a civilization. It is the
spiritual substance that is really
tough, and the race In which spiritual
ity moat persists and best tempers
■ the ardors of acquisitiveness and am
i bitlon Is the race of greatest prom -
i lse, not only for the purposes of
s heaven, but for those of earth. What %
I makes Christianity the hope of our
s civilization is that It puts spirtual
t things before material things; man
i before his works, character ahead of
: all other acquisitions. We hope In It.
s as the sole power strong enough to
r k?ep the balance In our world and to
. clear and soften and Justify the judg
II ments of men."