'THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1920. THE LEADER ER WHO CARED The International Sunday 8chool Lesson "Jesus Feeds the Multitudes."--RMatt. for Dec. 19th is 14 : 13-23. By William T. Elils. "I have no interest in individuals," pompously declared a public official of the old order, to whom came the ratort, "Then you've got ahead of the Lord Almighty!" > Disdain for people, 'the common herd," the plain, everyday folks who make-up the bulk of humanity, is a first characteristic of tne aristocrat, the snob and the cynic. Whereas the sure sign of the spirit of Jesus tu a person is cara for ordinary men and women. Qreat souls delight in common folks anc comn.on ways; in the qualities of the general run of mankind; in their joys and sorrows, their ideals and their heroisms. A person may suspect that his sen- sibilities are becoming calloused if he does not take pleasure in his fel- low men, and love to associate with them, whether they are Broadway throngs, or small-town crowds, or sweaty multitudes of Russian refu- gees, or congregated humans of any sort. Some travellers delight to recount the differences betwzen themselves and the "natives" amid whom they sojourn; and they describe them- selves as heroes for undergoing what is the daily lot and life of myriads of other human beings. How silly and cheap and stupid! It is one with the age-long blunder of arty spirits who delight in setting themselves up as superiors to their fellows. Contrast the Jesus way, as our Lesson sets it forth. Aristocracy shuns crowds: Jesus lived close to the multitudes, He even cared that the impertinent, wonder-seeking rab- ble were hungry. His second great- est miracle, which today we study, was wrought to fill the bellies of an improvident multitude. The bread-and-butter problem is the one thing that the whole world has in common. We have recently seen, In the plight of the Russian refugees from the Crimea, how the softly-nurtured and favored mem- bers of a privileged class may in a few days be reduced to the level of Armenian or Syrian refugees, wolf- ishly clamoring for food of any sort. At present all of this favored land is hearing, and generally heeding, a plea for the succor of the hungry children of Europe. This perpetual question "What shall we eat"? was not too material or commonplace to be beneath the noticé of the Son of Gog. The Gospel of Labor. Accredited by His calloused hands, and by His brotherly, understand. ing heart, Jesus of Nazareth is today the one acceptable leader of mankind out of the dire distress and disorder of the world. His passion for com- mon people, His patience with us ordinary folk, His steadfastness to us | when another in disgust would leave us to stew in our own juice--these are the qualifications which commend | Christ to the commonalty of men and women as our day's Deliverer and | 1 Hero. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. | * "Thou hast learned the open secret; come to Me for rest burden, in thy labor, - elix, doubly blest. * 'Nevermore thou needest seek Mé; I am with thee every where; . Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood, and I am there'." e 5 "This is the gospel of labor, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! : | The love of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. T is the rose that Ha planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil." Seven short sentences, written on | a. seeond or third century scrap of papyrus, and dug up along the Nile | less than twenty-five years ago, are Xxnown as. 'The New Sayings of Je- sus." Each is introduced by the words, "Jesus says." The fifth say- ing is "Raise the stone and thou | shalt find Me; cleave the wood, and I am there." van Dyke bases his beautiful poem, "The Toiling of Felix." Felix sought the Light as a desert hermit, where a saintly anchodite gave him this erytic word. He fared forth to the life of labor, as a common toiler. At last, in the temple during evening worship, the Master appeared to him, saying: . * 'Hearken, good and faithful ser- vant, true disciple, loyal friend! Thou hast followed Me and found Me; I will keep thee to the end. " 'Well IT know thy toll and trouble; often weary, fainting, worn, I have lived the lite of labor, heavy burdens I have borne. '"'Never in a prince's palace have I slept on golden bed, Never in a hermit's cavern have I eaten unearned bread. 'Born within a lowly stable, where . the cattle round me stood, Trained & carpenter in Nazareth, 1 have toiled and found it good. 'They who tread the path of labour follow where My feet have trod; They who work without complain- ing to do the holy will of God. "* 'Where the many toil together, There am I among My own; Where the tired workman sleep- eth, there am I with him alone. "I, \1e peace that passeth know- | dge, dwell amid the daily s. life; I, the Bread of Heaven, am broken in the sacrament of life. 'Every task, however simple, sets | the soul that does it free; Every deed love and mercy, done | to man, is done to Me. ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN Not Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross" The name "Bayer" identifies the contains proper directions for Colds, only genuine Aspirin, ~the Aspirin | Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neu- escribed b; sicians for over nine- | ralgia, Lumbago, » Tin made in Canada. |tis, Joint Pains, and Pain gencrally. teen years and now Always buy an unbroken , Rheumatism, Neuri- Tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but of "Bayér Tablets of 'Aspirinl which | a few cents. 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Erudition has often been befogged and bemired in theological questions concerning Je- sus: but simple saints, men and women bent beneath the burdens of | life, have never lost their clear { vision of Christ as their best Friend | and surest Leader and sympathizing | Saviour and one Revealer of God. |" There is a profound teaching for | our own disorganized day in the solicitude of Jesus for the crowds; and in the swift, sure perception of the masses that Jesus understands them and can satisfy their deepest | aspirations. None of the mechanical for bringing antagonistic | groups of society together, or for se- curing the supremacy of one over | the other, is anything more than an aberrationsa temporary expedient; | whereas the Jesus mode promises the | permanence and peace of rood will. | Jesus gave first place to the claims lof the crowd upon Him; even' His | private grief over the death of His | dedr friend and interpreter and her- | ald, John the Baptist, was set aside | when the clamorous multitude fol- 'lowed Him into His lonely retreat. | Most of us would have resented with impatience this intrusion, com- | plaining bitterly of the invasion of our privacy and our rights; and of our past services and present wear- iness.. Not so the Master. He thought of the weariness of that {host who had followed Him far | afoot, and who were weary, hot, {tired and hungry. Their quest for | Him must have thrilled His compas- | | sionate heart. Every instinct of { shepherdhiood and Saviourhood was | | set vibrating by the spectacle of a ! multitude in whom another would have beheld only a curious mob of | sight-seers, | There is a prevalent idea that thls | zeal for the people is a modern cult, {a sort of socialism. Absurd! It is | as old as the Bible; and it had its | rise in the Spirit imparted to the | friends and revealers of the Father in Heaven. A hymn of present pop- [ularity is "God Save the People' -- | which was written by Ebenezer El- | liott about a hundred years ago: "When wilt Thou save the people? O God of mercy, when? Not kings and lords, but nations, Not thrones nor crowns, but men Flowers of Thy heart, O God, are they; Let them not pass like wéeds away, Let them not fade in sunless day. God save the people. | | | "Shall crime bring crime forever, Strength aiding still the strong? Is it Thy will, O Father, 'that men shall toil for wrong? 'No!' say the mountains; 'No!' the skies; 'Man's clouded sun shall brightly rise, > And songs be heard instead of sighs.' God Save the people. "When will. Thou save the people? O God of mercy, when? The people, Lord, the people, Not thrones, not crowns, but men. God save the people, Thine they are; Thy children, as Thy angels fain, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people.' T 'thered By A Short Rope All of us, the most affluent and the most ascetic, are tethered by a short rope to the primitive needs: of the body. Saintliness cannot subsist without food--though it needs less than gluttony. A physician has said: "It only takes one-third of what the average person eats to sup- port life; the ther two-thirds go to support the doc. rs." "Life is more than meat'--but °t is also meat, as Jesus clearly show 4 in the miracle | of the feeding of ti» five thousand. | -In the presence of % hungry mul- titude, the disciple w nted to send them away. That very human char- arteristic earned in the rmy the en- titlement "Passing ('e buck." Divest yourself of ftesp: usibility-- that is the main idea w ioh Has made expert self-excusers or -'l of us, in a sort of apostolic succession to these disciples whe wanted to shirk all obligation for the crowd. But the way of the Master was greater, 'Give ye them to eat!" What a commandment for today. It implies multiplied power as well as multiplied store. God's servants are enabled by God's command. Why wait for world's statement to satisfy the yearnings of the people: "give ye them to eat"---right here and now, in your own shop or office or school or neighborhood. There is satisfaction for human ills in the spiritual riches which Christians al- ready possess. How the disciples must have stared at the incredible command of Christ! With five loaves and two smal] fishes they were to feed more than five thousand orientals, whose appetites at a free feast is proverbial. They could not see it: neither can a preacher see where he is going to get a thousand sermons in the next ten years; or a writer where he is to find thousands of articles and ideas in the same time; or a-home- maker how she is to cook more than ten thousand meals in ten years, or sew on thousands of buttons, or scrub faces times beyond counting, or wash countless thousands of dish- es. Nevertheléss, the principle that. applied to the disciples still pre- vails: Go ahead with your duty; you ppssess more than you know, Trust you f for larger things, and trust God ose word 'you obey. it may seem like an anti-c{imax to the Lesson, but because it is an essential part of the teaching of the story, and because it is decidedly a truth for the time, we remind our- selves of the message of thrift which comes {rom the twelve backets of gathered fragments, arter the mir- * Made in Canada PLATE ._ as Gifts this Christmas You can give more pleasure this Christmas, for less money than usual, by spending. a few minutes at the CoMmunITY counter of your favorite shop. NITY PLATE, $47.50 to $400--at the better shops. COMMUNITY There is a gentle but compelling Gift hint in every woman's-admira- tion of Community PLATE. There is many a Correct Service piece, or set, that she would like to have--in Sheraton, Patrician, or Adam --to match what Community Table Service she has now. 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