The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 2

THE SUNDAY CALL * means something more and better to be a Christian now than it meant to be @ Christian even in the apostolic day The question “What would Jesus do?” / has been much canvassed in recent years. If that question could be so answered that the answer would fit all the mani- fold and varying conditions and details of our lives to-day the question, “What is a Christian?' would not need to be discussed, for the amswer to it wopld he amply illustrated in tens thousands of actual human liv ut under exist- ing conditions the consideration of such & question is attended by hewildering con- fusion .and mental conflict. One takes Paul's text, “If ye have not the spisit of Christ ye are none of his,” and } prets it in the intense white lizht of the Christlife and the Sermon on the Mount. To be a Christian, he says, s nothing less than to live up to this ideal always and in all life etails. The re- sult or reaction is apt to be a demor Ing sort of dlscourazecment. The ideal is feit to be so high as to be unattainabie and Is soon abandoned or not attempt at all. Another takes such texts as * blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from 8l sin™ and translates them into a m REY. ¢ A, -Mm!/ S ) tical dactrine of salyation by substitu- n which ignores the du ¢ personal cultivat of cter by iritual de- velopment in obedience to the teachings of Christ and by sympathetic study of the spirit and example of his life. In the view of this person, or class of per- sons, to & an is to belleve with all the b st of superstition in cer- tain doctrines (which it were foolish if not wro to try to understand) as to the mystlc of Christ’s death upon the mt itionships of God and ma “Only believe!” is one of the favorite watchwords of this school of theolog: 4 faith to which it refers not £ s not r to) : its e intelli of its ok . subject, who sfore not al di tinguished for the intelliectual ¢ creed. While cludes mul an scarcely be admitted tk n, class of religion- ides of worthy people, at ideal stency " ” Christianity lies in this direction. This is 1 s the ea A not the path to be trodden by inquiring n follows ’ minds; it is simply a blind or a that 1t da e gl 9 1/ Kair. 4_\.._.. come the head of a guild of begss thieves or lepers. Nanki [l[" vou want to grow rich in China, be- time. Go to a phy- g, Peking and Tientsin are 1 i the growth of each the headquarters of the most powerful of it drfb- hoa e. I hope you of the illds, and thelr rulers ars g > ey RARSGras n wealthy and respected. The “king" of a clan of Chinese vagabonds of these classes derives his Income from a tribute ren- pe. If Saciy dered him by his wretched subjects, and ™ in the alsu levies a gort of blackmail on traders b t red hot, o = u kn rarticles they will sce, °f lamp black on the 1 it leaves e o - Belle s very . & striking I a is that [ a1 want to laugh about th ceause you g rather more Kknow it iy not a bit funny to the girl to ke pit hairs have have her lip hurt »5 and then find out o “ in taking away the mugtache that 2 e ¢ might & shaved off every day she has left an artifical m e that noth- ing can remove. It is really a serlous rae matter, but 1 it 1o laugh just 1 some diseases of the scalp such as g aflcced b favus it i necessary to pluck out the ha on r der to g t at the skin, and it is ord that o ictle girl had to have 70,000 of them pulled vut by the roots be- fore she got well As there are only bout 120,000 in whole scalp, and this - nor one little patch, it is to 0 > Tisiie cetibes piucking out a hair does not : o put on SN By e M ultimate extinction of bair on * & dollar a bottie, tHAt SPOL : Beard appears 1o grow at the same : rate and to follow the same rules of per- - sonal conduct as the hair of the head. 8o . s if & man began shaving when he was six- v teen and lives to be eventy yeg ; ng. s o ¥ years old, he 4 will have cut more than a little bit oft s sccurage a hair to be the top. If he could keep in position all b : he has thrown away « head of hair thirty- X five feet long and beard twenty-seven i 19 feet long. all in one bunch, would enable cor ) ever. Thal him to travel with a circus summers and . 3 the gt fr;):‘x s st e indow to advertise a hair iy ery w ot restorer in tha winter. I don" ‘ = e of the skin. It Is a el By o P he could get ints the United States Sen- uf an iach Jong, away ate, sithough I hear that they don't run . RS bottom dr..'b«;m m{l; m:c- %0 much to whiskers there now as they ; Nothing that can be dabbed on the skin did a while ago.~Harvey Sutherl icre cliber to Larm or belp Ainslee's. 4 byigEe [} 4 “ e Ghingse Beggar Kings. N meaningless maze to the ever-increasing muititudes who deem Reason to ?"“ trainer of Faith and who reg rfl the 3 as the handmaid of the Soul. The tianity of the future will not so lea Christ. The truly Christian course is media bettveen these two A Christlan is an lergradu school of Christ, alw there is so much to les because his ideals are so lofty, remembering that the lternati life are learning and doing. My ren, I would not have you ignorant the most frequently recorded saying all the writings of Lhe Apostle Paul, N of the most llustrious pupils of the School of Christ, and one whose is unique for inspired and tirel To adopt this general idea tian is to exclude from Chr classes of people who cal Christians, as for example wear the cloak &l motives of materfal gain prov 4 all those whose | a mere endeavor to shun hel heaven hereafter alone. All these sin of seifishness part or jot with are members of difference. The church can do f him out of his scifish sel spirit 1 then to ! gressive developme the Chris E a ¢ “ member is an abortion which no In ¢ to be a ¢ an or without the aid of the must fomehow come into tact wi Christ id that kindle in him the divi can make a p acter of 3 relied study of the records four books of the that study the sens t the miraculous elem se T 3 is practi £ litt the character and T Christ th pr as ex ting ideal of, human r as trating the spiritual life. Even passtve, it Christlan is t ture s fired by his contem Christ, so that Christ’s word is his law and Christ's spirit becomes the force that govarns the trend a conduct his life in all matters ar reiationships, The Christ-spirit n an life is the essen- e rit wever, has of operation and expres- table life prod e and app tial matter many diversit slon, just peaches roses upon an need not think or ly alike use they are all Chri s. They may r, as did Peter and John, or Paul James; but all must be animated by iples. Mee number e spirit, as were thos sic olute and unfiinching vice of mankind love to God an through every recorde 8 Christ. These, s stian e measure of his Christianity is t e ure of the spirit in him wh 1 produces this kind ot conduct in actua lite. It should go without saying that a Christian Is essentially a religious ma but there is apparent ing this point at this cisco. “Every man his own be a taking theme of popu evening discourses at M Temple fust now, but viewed Christian standpoint this doctrine x very empty bubble. The late Dr. M tineau, who probably has had no this century as a profound thinker is subjects, ence ethical and relgic do pot myself belle the eff purely ethical comm short enthusiasm of perso affaction bet the spirit of man & £ God the blending of religion is n 1 no permanent cohesi expected on the more ethical 3 between man ar ment from such a mast of ethics and religi most profound atter reduce Christianity hool of ethics soul or to take the s and leave there n changeful light o short, it is all moonshir e life of Jesus Christ by the vivid and abic of spiritual relation God, whom he ta think of and to father. Not only of his lif which and ing is tru Christian in proy his pe of this central iritnal being this actuating motive of Christian service, einirinieleiepdeieie-it @ nsignificant as a undertaking to keep the particular pests which he From these two source large ince large his me lar distri operation, beyond wh forbidden to stray tions are pract heggars of China in order t yrmities ma e compassion : > profit you see a blind man liciting a Chinese street it is 10 to 1 that mselt destroyed his sight. On s the beggars go about In ga from 30 to 150. On these occasions keepers are only too glad to comply the “king's” demands for b order that lils subjects may of their shops. A “king” of Chinese thieves knows kmail e kept out everything that goes on in his distriet. He knows who committed certain thefts and where the stolen property H ltke his brother of the begzars, has a double source of income. A large percent- age of the profits made by his‘subjects is claimed by him, and woe betide them if they attempt to cheat the autocrat. And 1f a foreigner is robbed he generally can, by paving the “king’* a certain sum, re- cover his property. Property stolen from Chinamen is never brought back. Every Chirese city has a leper house outside its gates, and most of them have two or more. As in the cases of the beg- gars and thieves, there is an executive head, called the “King of the Lepers,™ who controls all lepers and makes rules and compacts, which must be observed. These unfortunates are numerous throughout the empire. When In the first stage of the disease they are braught to the leper houses. Good care Is taken of them as long as their relatives can meet the demand of the “king." But no matter how wealthy thelr fami- lies may be, the “kMg" eventually drains them of every penny, and both the leper and his relatives often have to turn beg- gars. The poorer lepers are assigned to miserable, unclean huts, providing poor shel