. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . more than atemple full of ecclesiasticism; and thegood Samaritan had more religionin five minutes than that minister andthat Levite had in a lifetime. Themost accursed thing on earth is na-tional prejudice, and I bless God that I live in America, where Gentile and Jew,Protestant and Catholic, can live together without quarrel, and where, in thegreat national crucible, the different sects and tribes and peoples are beingmolded into a great brotherhood. I bless God that the question which thelawyer flung at Christ, and which brough
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . more than atemple full of ecclesiasticism; and thegood Samaritan had more religionin five minutes than that minister andthat Levite had in a lifetime. Themost accursed thing on earth is na-tional prejudice, and I bless God that I live in America, where Gentile and Jew,Protestant and Catholic, can live together without quarrel, and where, in thegreat national crucible, the different sects and tribes and peoples are beingmolded into a great brotherhood. I bless God that the question which thelawyer flung at Christ, and which brought forth this incident of the goocfSamari-tan, Who is my neighbor? is bringing forth the answer, My neighbor is thefirst man I meet in trouble, and a wound close at hand calls louder than a templeseventeen miles off, though it be the most glorious ever built and though itcovers nineteen acres. THE BOYHOOD HOME OF JESUS Now we are at Nazareth, the place of the Saviours boyhood. We camealong the very road that Christ took when he returned from Jerusalem after his. W OX MOUNT OLIVET 154 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK interview with the doctors of the law. Through the Valley of Esdraelon, thebattlefield of nations, and by round-topped, beautiful Tabor, from the edge ofwhich Deborah signaled Barak to open the battle; and near awful Megiddo, andacross the plains the road comes to the foot of Mount Nazareth, not ascendingby the steep and jagged path which Christ ascended, but by a new way whichmodern engineering has built, and we go zigzagging up the heights, steep abovesteep, until we seem to hover over Nazareth, a village of such overpoweringinterest that all the world has seen or wishes to see it. How the Omnipotenthas scooped out these valleys and molded these hills on which and through whichJesus, the lad, walked, sometimes with his father, sometimes with his mother, sometimes with village con-temporaries, and sometimesalone. We halt at the veryfountain where Joseph andMar
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