Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — Something to Think About Over Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Something to Think About Over Sunday.

The RepUbMean Is in receipt of the following letter, Which offers food for (thought. We trust tjfat the erfticfsm is not too personal. It is important because it repro sertts a common fault with so many. There .fas a lack of Christian charity, of Christian love and of Christian effort. The communication is published in the belief that it deserves consideration. It follows: “I was calling on a lady in our little city the other day and on my way, almost next door, I spoke to the lady of the house and Was really taken with ‘the kindness of the lady’* voice and manner. She was dressed in califco and was bu£y with the family washing. I reto -the lady on whom I was calling tlnat the neighbor to wluom I had spoken was very pleasant and mannerly. It happened that the lady on. whom I was cabling was a devoted church worker and I was surprised when she replied: “Yes, but 'they are very poor people and she has been talked about, so none of u« neighbors (hothir Her. We speak to her if we have to and tl'JatV about all." Well, I went home and on the following Sunday went to church. I kept thinking about the matter. Whaff chance had that poor woman whose neighbors accepted the accusation of rumor and shunned her like a leper'. At chuich I saw' the lady on whom I had Called, a woman Wife passed as a true Christian. She was a teacher at the Sunday school and among her ycholars were the children of the shunned neighbor. My mind has been .so taxed at the thought of it all .and I have been unable to understand that so it of Christian spirit. No friend, do you think when OhiPSt iwias here he was Po very ■cafeful not to to some human being because there was a, rumor .a gain sit her. Can we not‘learn that no iriaitter how siinifull a person is they have a soul to swe and fhait we Can never a,id in the rescue rs we shun them. And can |ye as Christian people afford to “crick” off together and ■•assume a “holler tlian thou" ,attitude? What if our duty 'to Christ and His house? We Can not pffpid iti fiod 'Stays we must love one another and by our fruits will we be judged. Yet your light so .shine that others in darkness may see that there Is reality and oarnestncds in Godls love. We believe this so important sth’a't we ask the columns of The Republican in order that all in our fair City may have t'he opportunity to think it over and make our lives ,an aid and not a rebuff to any poor |and -misguided..sinner.r Let our Hrveo improve >ln charity v along (with our prettier lawns and our e'lcaper alley's,—A Daily Subscriber, , t ,