Tárogató, 1938-1939 (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1939-04-01 / 10. szám
14 TÁROGATÓ Jerusalem. There, in the narrow streets, everybody seemed, to be shouting. Some of the people even threw their coats down in front of the Lord. The King had come to Jerusalem, riding on Reuben’s donkey. “Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest!” Then suddenly it was over. Jesus had gone. He had got off the donkey, smiled at Reuben, and gone through the gate into the Temple. The shouting people were gone too, and Reuben’s palm branch was broken. He was a little boy, alone in Jerusalem, with two very tired, donkeys to drive home. He climbed on the colt’s back and twisted his fingers in the big donkey’s mane. “Never mind, my dears,” said Reuben, as they turned back down the steep street, “the King wanted us; He truly did!” —Myra Morony in “The Church Times” —Ireland. CHRISTIAN CONDUCT By William C. MacLeod Doctor “Bob” McClure is supported in doing his great work as doctor and Red Cross organizer in China by the boys and girls of a Toronto Sunday School. Speaking to them just before he left recently to return to China, he said that Christians in China have to show by their conduct that they are Christians. He gave two vivid pictures by way of contrast. Trains in China are excessively crowded in the war-torn areas, and often travel at night to avoid bombing. Into a crowded train a pompous gentlemen shoved his way and sat down on another man, so that the latter wriggled out from under and stood. Turning, the intruder saw Dr. McClure sitting next, and seeing he was a foreigner spoke to him, and asked if he were a Christian. He then congratulated them both on being fellow-Christians, although Dr. McClure had his serious doubts. When the Chinese gentleman departed, several others in the car asked the doctor, “Is he a Christian?” He refused to give a direct reply, but asked them to judge for themselves. On another train, however, with crowds of dejected people travelling towards the war-zone, there was a party of young women who sang, talked cheerfully, and helped to raise the spirits, of all in the car. Dr. McClure asked a porter, sweeping the car, who these girls were. “They say they are Red Cross nurses. I don’t know whether they are or not, but they are Christians.” This porter, not a Christian himself, knew that these girls were Christians by their cheerfulness and good spirits in difficult circumstances. They had just come from one battle area, and had taken the first train available to go to another. Yet they gave visible and audible proof of their Christian faith. Does our Christianity give such proof of itself? RECOIL FROM LIQUOR Despite the general slump in regard to the use of liquor, we have Mrs. Emily Post, the wellknown writer, telling us that in the United States society has experienced something of a change of heart, and drinking liquor has, in some places, become “unfashionable, outnodeled, not smart.” She named several hostesses who have supplanted bars in their homes with tea tables, and in one southern ball the milk bar was thronged, while the liquor bar was neglected; and in the great hall of a fashionable club near New York City she had recently seen nearly the entire company with hot drinks,, while only three had cocktails in their hands. There can be little doubt that liquor again will soon be fignting for its life. Magistrate Frank Oliver, of New York City, says that almost fifty per cent, of the persons fatally injured in that city were under the influence of liquor. A drunken man is courting death if he tries to cross the streets of a busy city in these modern days. GREAT MEN FROM BIG FAMILIES By W. J. Banks Benjamin Franklin, the great American statesman, philosopher and humanitarism, was his father’á tenth son. Jor;iah Franklin destined young Benjamin, as the “tithe” of his sons, to the church. But he found a classical education too expensive, and the lad was ap-
