CALIFORNIA SCENERY, NO. 11:—We present herewith an illustration of a fine specimen of the Coast Live Oak, quercus agrifolia. This evergreen oak is peculiar to California and Mexico. Its wood is brittle and worthless except for firewood; but it makes indeed a dignified and noble shade tree. The large center tree in the picture above is in the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, and is called “The Noblest Roman.” Specimens of the Coast Live Oak are often found with a trunk measuring from 6 to 8 feet in diameter, the branches outreaching 50 to 60 feet from the trunk. Oakland is so named because of the prevalence of this tree.
THE LAW OF KINDNESS.
By Anonymous
“A PENNY for your thoughts, Elinor,” spoke Jenet McNaughten.
“Yes, a penny for your thoughts,” added three girlish voices in a chorus.
“I was thinking of that little Hester Waters at Mrs. Brown’s last summer. What a patient girl she was, when we girls must have vexed and tried her so often!”
The five girls—dearest friends to each other—were sitting in Elinor Treadwell’s room. They had met together after school hours to “brush up” for examination week. Lessons having been declared off for the rest of the afternoon, they had settled down in a sort of thoughtful mood, rather unusual for “the jolly five,” as Elinor’s and Jenet’s elder brothers called them.
“Yes, wasn’t she a model?” said Alice Huntington. “How she ran upstairs and down to find our rubbers or handkerchiefs!”
“And yet I never saw a frown on her face, or heard a hasty word from her lips. And what a life she led all that summer! Such a lot of dishes to wash, such quantities of berries and peas and things to pick in the hot sun!” And Elinor leaned her head upon her hand, and her face had a sad expression upon it as she added: “Girls, how much easier and happier we might have made that girl last summer, if we had only been more thoughtful!”
“It was a very fortunate circumstance, indeed, that we five girls could all be together in one house, and have that glorious outing during the summer vacation,” said Clara Greenlee. “We were so happy ourselves that we did not think of how weary Hester must have been waiting on us, and how many times when she was hard at work, she must have thought, with Glory McQuirk, what a good time we had, and she not in it!”
“I don’t know why I have been thinking of Hester so often of late,” rejoined Elinor; “but whenever I think of her, my conscience troubles me, and her sweet, patient, kind ways are a reproach to my hasty speech. Girls, ‘our wits have been wool-gathering;’ why didn’t we think of her at holiday time, and send her a box?”
“Yes, why didn’t we?” exclaimed the girls in a chorus. “Why didn’t we? That is the question.”
“Better late than never,” spoke up Jenet. Let us send her a box now.”
A week from that day, in a small house on the mountain road, a young girl sat at a window facing the snow-covered by-way. She had been a “shut in” for weeks. “Overwork,” the physician said. “Too hard a place for so young a girl, Mrs. Brown’s had been, with all her summer boarders.”
She had begun to get stronger, and her mother had resumed her place at the mill, at the foot of the mountain. Hester had been alone all day, and naturally was very busy with her thoughts. She wondered if the young ladies who were at Mrs. Brown’s during the summer, ever thought of her. Probably they did not. What good times they always had! How nice it must be to have pretty clothes to wear, and an opportunity to learn everything, and go anywhere! If her mother only had the money those girls’ mother had, she would not have to work so hard at the mill, and take the walk to and from, which was a long one, through the cold winter nights and mornings. But what troubled Hester the most was the thought that she could not earn anything to help the dear mother. A snow-bird hopped on the gate post just then, and turned its head toward Hester, and then began some sweet twitterings.
“I wonder what the little fellow is telling me. They say the birds carry messages.”
Some sleigh bells jingling along the by-road frightened the snow-bird away.
“It is old Samuel Stevens coming home from delivering his milk, but I wonder why he is coming here?”
“A box for you, Hester. I left my milk at the station, and Jim Allen asked me if I’d drive around and bring you this box.”
“Thank you, Mr. Stevens.”
“Hope you are getting better fast now, Hester,” the old man said, as he went back to his sleigh.
On top in the box were the five photographs of the young ladies, and this delighted Hester’s eyes and heart. Then she took out the warm flannel wrapper she needed so much, and all the pretty things, which were just what she wanted. In the pocket of the wrapper she found a pocket-book with new silver money10pieces in it. But best of all to Hester was the Oxford Bible. Surely the young ladies must have heard her that Sunday morning in summer-time, wishing for just such a one. On the fly-leaf was written her name, and under it this text: “In her tongue is the law of kindness.”
And there, surrounded by all those sweet remembrances of those young lady summer boarders, whom she waited on at Mrs. Brown’s, stood Hester, with tears rolling down her cheeks, when mother came home from the mill.
“What! crying, Hester?” her mother asked in surprise.
“Tears of joy, mother dear, tears of joy. The young ladies remembered me with all these nice presents. And see, mother, what they wrote in this Bible: ‘In her tongue is the law of kindness.’ I’m so glad I did try to please them, and I shall always remember to try to be always patient and kind, so the text will prove to belong, really and truly, to me.”
—Anonymous.
NOW
If you have a kind word, say it:
Throbbing hearts soon sink to rest.
If you owe a kindness, pay it:
Life’s sun hurries to the west.
Can you do a kind deed? Do it,
From despair some soul to save;
Bless each day as you pass through it,
Marching onward to the grave.
Days for deeds are few, my brother;
Then to-day fulfil thy vow;
If you mean to help another,
Do not dream it, do it now.
—Anon.
WHO IS THEIR TEACHER?
The grayhound runs by sight only. This is a fact. The carrier pigeon flies his hundreds of miles homeward by eyesight, noting from point to point objects that he has marked. This is only conjecture. The dragon fly, with 12,000 lenses in his eye, darts from angle to angle with the rapidity of a flashing sword, and as rapidly darts back, not turning in the air, but with a clash reversing the action of his four wings and instantaneously calculating the distances of the objects, or he would dash himself to pieces. But in what conformation of the eye does this power consist? No one can answer.
Ten thousand mosquitoes dance up and down in the sun with the minutest interval between them, yet no one knocks another headlong on the grass, or breaks a leg or a wing, long and delicate as they are. Suddenly a peculiar, high-shouldered, vicious creature, with long and pendant nose, darts out of the rising and falling cloud, and, settling on your cheek, inserts a poisonous sting. What possesses the little wretch to do this? Did he smell your blood while he was dancing?—No one knows.
A carriage comes suddenly upon some geese in a narrow road and drives straight through the flock. A goose was never yet fairly run over, nor a duck. They are under the very wheels and hoofs, and yet they contrive to flap and waddle safely off. Habitually stupid, heavy, and indolent, they are nevertheless equal to any emergency.
Why does the lonely woodpecker, when he descends from his tree and goes to drink, stop several times on his way and listen and look around before he takes his draft?—No one knows. How is it that the species of ant which is taken in battle by other ants to be made slaves, should be the black or negro ant?—No one knows.
The power of judging of actual danger and the free and easy boldness that results from it, are by no means uncommon. Many birds seem to have a correct notion of a gun’s range, and are scrupulously careful to keep beyond it. The most obvious resource would be to fly right away out of sight and hearing, but this they do not choose to do.
A naturalist in Brazil gives an account of an expedition that he made to one of the islands of the Amazon to shoot spoonbills, ibises, and other magnificent birds which are abundant there. His design was completely baffled, however, by a wretched little sandpiper, which preceded him, continually uttering his telltale cry, which at once aroused all the birds within hearing. Throughout the day did this individual bird continue his self-imposed duty of sentinel to others, effectually preventing the approach of the hunter to the game, and yet managing to keep out of the range of his gun.
—Philadelphia Times.
CHURCH ETIQUET.
THERE is such a thing as church etiquet, and the fact of it is quite as noticeable as a breach of good manners in any other relation of life. Right behavior in church should be as religiously observed as are any of the rules and regulations of polite society elsewhere. It is quite certain that our conduct at church has not a little to do in deciding the measure of blessing which we may hope to receive, and has a very direct influence upon the minds of those about us.
The following suggestions are not altogether new, but they deserve frequent repetition, in view of the fact that they are so often and so flagrantly violated, even by those who would be quite offended if directly informed that they were guilty of such violations of good breeding. We should always be reverent and attentive; and in all things we should try to be “an example of the believers.”
1. If possible be in time. You need five minutes after coming to get warm or cool; to compose your body and mind, and to whisper a prayer before the service begins.
2. Never pass up the aisle during prayer or Scripture reading. If you do, your presence will distract the minds of many in the audience.
3. Be devout in every attitude; all whispering should be studiously avoided. Find the psalm and sing it if you can. Share the book with your neighbor. If in a strange church, conform to its customs of worship.
4. If the sermon has begun, take a seat near the door—no matter if you are “at home.”
5. Be thoughtful of the comfort of others. Take the inside of the pew, if you are the first to enter, and leave all vacant space at the end next to the aisle.
6. Speak a bright, cheery word to as many as possible at the close of the service. If you are a stranger, ask one of the ushers to introduce you to the pastor, or to some of the church officers. This will always insure you a hearty welcome.
7. Never put on your coat, overshoes, or wraps during the closing psalm, and do not make a rush for the door immediately after the benediction is pronounced.
8. There should be no loud talking or jesting after the service is concluded. They are as much out of place in the house of God as in the house of mourning.—Presbyterian Review.
WHEN TO BE A DANIEL.
By A. J. Crittenden
O, it's safe to be a Daniel
When the people are agreed
That the very thing you argue for
Is just the thing they need;
When the world is very willing,
And the bad are very good,
You may safely be a Daniel:
You'll be always understood.
You may dare to be a Daniel
When you've figured out the chance,
And the people like the music,
And will join you in the dance;
But if anybody's knees begin
To weaken in the play,
Then lay away the fiddle
Till a favorable day.
You may dare to be a Daniel
When the people are so kind
That they wouldn't hurt a Daniel
Should he want to speak his mind;
When the Daniels are so plenty
That you never would be known,
Then dare to be a Daniel, yes,
And dare to stand alone.
It will do to be a Daniel
When they have a “Daniel's band,”
And the street is full of Daniels,
And they're crowding on the stand
And the drums beat up for Daniel,
And the horns blow off your hat—
O, I'd like to be a Daniel too,
In such a time as that.
Yes, “Dare to be a Daniel”
Is very fine to sing,
If ’twill only raise a regiment
Of Daniels for the King;
But I'm thinking it were better
If we'd show the people how
To sanctify the singing more,
And be a Daniel now.
—A. J. Crittenden.
A NEW INTOXICANT.
NEARLY all the leading manufacturers of drugs are now placing upon the market various alcoholic and other preparations of kola, an Eastern drug to which is ascribed the most magical power as a brain and nerve restorer. The physiological effects of this substance show it to be closely allied to caffein, which Lehman long ago proved to be a toxic drug, and capable of producing most profound narcotic effects.
Kola is largely sold in the form of an elixir or cordial, which contains a large percentage of alcohol, and it is reasonable to believe that the temporary exhilaration produced by the use of this drug, either with or without its alcoholic mixture, will be the means of leading a large number of persons to the use of alcohol in some form, or to the employment of other narcotics; indeed, it is possible that we shall soon be called upon to treat the victims of the kola habit.
The assertion made by many, that kola is a perfectly harmless substance, is entirely erroneous. Every drug which exhilarates or narcotizes is necessarily injurious, as a natural consequence of its peculiar effect upon the brain and nervous system.—Pacific Ensign.
DON'T SNUB HIM.
By Anon
Don’t snub a boy because of physical disability. Milton was blind, and was also deaf.
Don’t snub a boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author of “Pilgrim’s Progress” was a tinker.
Don’t snub a boy because he stutters. Demosthenes, the greatest orator of Greece, overcame a harsh and stammering voice.
Don’t snub a boy because of the ignorance of his parents. Shakespeare, the world’s poet, was the son of a man who was unable to write his own name.
Don’t snub a boy who seems dull or stupid. Hogarth, the celebrated painter and engraver, was slow at learning, and did not develop as soon as most boys.
Don’t snub a boy because he wears shabby clothes. When Edison, the great inventor, first entered Boston, he wore a pair of yellow linen breeches in the depth of winter.
Don’t snub any one,—not alone because they may far outstrip you in the race of life, but because it is neither kind, nor right, nor Christian.—Anon
The Two Kinds of Critics
“THERE are two kinds of critics, those who complain that roses have thorns, others who are grateful that thorns have roses.”
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
An institute for the accommodation of the brethren in south western Ohio is appointed for March 29 to April 12, at Dayton.
THE New Zealand Conference and Tract Society have begun the monthly publication of a neat little organ styled The Advance. It will no doubt be a great convenience as a means of communication among the churches and laborers.12
A CHURCH of twenty-four members was organized at Jacksonville, Fla., on January 30.
SEVEN additions to the church at Hawkeye, Iowa, are reported by Brother B. L. Dieffenbacher.
THE Welcome Visitor notes that the Ohio Tract Society is soon to erect a building at Clyde as a headquarters for its growing work.
ON the 5th ult. Brother N. W. Allee baptized five persons in New Orleans, the baptistry of the First Baptist Church having been kindly placed at his disposal.
MISS RUTH JONES, of Auckland, N. Z., who recently completed a nurses’ course at the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, is about to go to West Australia to engage in medical missionary work.
IN one year after Brother E. W. Farnsworth and wife went to Christchurch, N. Z., to begin work in an entirely new field, there was a church organization of thirty-six members, and a new church building, capable of seating over two hundred people. The Sabbath-school numbers about sixty.
THE Wisconsin Reporter says the Helping Hand Mission of Milwaukee “is a great blessing to the poor and needy in the metropolis of this State. The good work done in this mission is very highly complimented by the city papers. It is a Heaven-sent benediction to the unfortunate and fallen in our midst. We do not only minister to the wants of the physical man, but the needs of the spiritual man are also supplied.”
BROTHER D. P. GAEDE tells, in the Kansas Worker, of a good work being done in Atchison. On going to that city he was “greatly surprised to see how the Lord is going before His people, opening up the way for the work.” Continuing he says: “Everything is now ready, and the Lord is just waiting for us to co-operate with Him in the work. When we go to the people in the city and tell them what is needed in the reading-room, it is given. . . . One of the sisters gathers up the children from the streets, takes them into a house, and tells them of God and His love. A good work is also being done in the jail meetings.”
BROTHER S. M. JACOBS writes to the Kansas Worker concerning the Oakwood Industrial School, near Huntsville, Ala., and from his letter we clip the following paragraph:— “Our school holds two sessions each day, giving me one-half of the students to work on the farm each half day. Some of them know nothing about work; are not able to hitch two horses together. Of course, they soon learn, but it takes care and patience all the time. It is a source of encouragement to us to see the earnestness they manifest in their studies. I wish you could step in to some of our devotional exercises, and hear the ringing testimonies. Dear brethren, sometimes when I note the progress made by some of the students, whom we came South to help, I wonder if God will not use some of them as missionaries to go into the North to do His work.”
BROTHER I. C. COLCORD gives in the Reaper a good account of the Columbia Academy, at Kettle Falls, Wash. This school was started as a private enterprise in November, 1896, but after running about four months, Brother Colcord was tendered the public schoolhouse, and merged his school into the public school, becoming the principal and conducting the school in his own way, with two assistants. There is now an enrolment of seventy-two pupils, and with the extra room recently added by the trustees, there is room for double that number. In connection with the institution is a students’ home, in which the principles of health reform are inculcated. The following extract from Brother Colcord’s report is worthy of special notice:— “The officers of the academy begin to recognize that the greater benefit comes to them when they cast about and gather in the poor and needy, helping those who can not help materially in return. When we said, ‘Come in, a way will be planned for the payment of tuition, etc.,’ then it was that the Lord began to shower blessings down upon us.”
THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS.
By E. C. Chapman
The group of islands which bears the name Marquesas, was discovered and named by Mendana in 1595, while on his cruise in quest of the Solomon Islands. They lie between 7° 50′ and 10° 34′ south latitude, and 138° to 140° west longitude. The group comprises twelve principal islands, and several smaller ones. In 1842 the islands were ceded to France, and a colony was established, which, not proving a success, was given up after seventeen years of unprofitable experience. A representative of the French Government still remains in the group, but the natives are at present allowed to govern themselves about as they see fit.
The rugged cliffs of these picturesque islands tower high above the sea, with no encircling belt of lowland about their base. There are many small valleys along the streams, and in the productive lowlands of these fertile regions the natives have their homes. To travel in the Marquesas one must climb steep hills or go by the sea.
The Marquesas Islands possess a healthful climate, as do most of the groups of the eastern Pacific, while their proximity to the equator insures them perfect immunity from frosts and snow. The excessive heat is not so overwhelming as might be imagined, because of the trade winds which blow a welcome breeze from the southeast during twelve months of the year.
When the islands were discovered, the natives were, like all the other Polynesians, deep in heathenism, tho they were as fine in appearance as any race to be found in the southern seas. They much resemble the Tahitians in appearance, tho their language is more closely allied to the Hawaiian than to the southern dialects. The various valleys of the islands have long been ruled by chiefs, and among the tribes might has usually been considered the standard of right. The experience of the Marquesans has been a sad chapter in native history, and the many mistakes and vices of the whites have only tended to confirm the natives in their heathenism. When discovered, the Marquesans were no more degraded than the natives in many of the other islands who are vastly in advance of these people to-day; and there is no evidence that the Marquesan natives are any nearer being a Christian people to-day than when the Spanish explorers first sighted the islands, three centuries ago. Their numbers have greatly decreased in the past one hundred years, and most of those who remain are confirmed drunkards. A sad picture it is that they present in the face of the people of the more enlightened lands. Opium has been imported into the group, and given to the natives in large quantities. Traders who have had occasion to employ the natives have found that rum or opium would often secure laborers when money would not; and so these deadly poisons have been extensively used in the dealings of the whites with the natives.
The Stone Image of Marquesas Islands, and a Marquesan Chief.
The following paragraph from the South Pacific directory shows the present condition of the inhabitants:—
The French have no settlement on Dominica (an island of the Marquesas), but there are two or three priests on the island, one of which stated that they had entirely failed in making converts, and that in his opinion there was not a native Christian. He also described the inhabitants as being inveterate cannibals, always at war with each other, and much addicted to drunkenness and other bad habits. The priest had succeeded in cultivating cotton, and had lately sold their produce for £2,000 ($10,000). It was extremely difficult to arrive at any correct estimate of the number of inhabitants, but they are said to have numbered about 2,500 in 1880. The men are tall and able-bodied, but the women are degraded and ill-looking.
Dark tho the picture may be, they are not all bad, and tho the priest of Rome does not know one Christian Marquesan, the writer does. When last heard from, Tahia was a devout member of our church at Arue, Tahiti. She is a Marquesan by birth. The Lord doubtless has many more precious souls amid the beautiful valleys of waving palms in the sin-cursed Marquesas. The people of this group are among our nearest neighbors of the South Pacific, while their spiritual condition is by far the most deplorable of any of the tribes east of the New Hebrides. It may well be called the darkest stronghold of the enemy in Polynesia.
May God work for these poor souls is my prayer, and is there not some one to work with God for their salvation? E. C. CHAPMAN.
OUR MISSION.
By B. F. Richards
“AND if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday.” Isa. 58 : 10.
There are hundreds of poor souls in San Francisco, hungry and terribly afflicted, who need immediate help, and we have thought of an excellent plan in which every person can engage.
We have issued coupon books with one hundred coupons each. Each coupon entitles the holder to one dish of food, and ten of them will pay for a good, clean bed, including a bath.
You can send us one dollar or more, and we will write your name on the book, and then when the hungry and afflicted soul calls for help, we can come to his rescue by using one of your books.
Sabbath-school classes can purchase one or more books, also societies of all kinds. We will keep account of each coupon used and will report to the purchaser of each book as often as requested.
Children can become interested in this grand work. You can get ten persons to give ten cents each, send it to us by post-office order, together with your name and address, so we can write you. Send all money to the treasurer, S. N. Curtiss, care SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.
The Mission is rapidly filling up. The Gospel services held each evening are well attended. So far we have held but eight meetings; still twenty-nine men who are tired of living wicked lives have shown a willingness to reform and serve God.
B. F. RICHARDS.
THE HELPING HAND AND MEDICAL MISSION.
By S. N. Curtiss
THE last week has been one full of interest in the work of the Mission, and if those who have donated toward the establishing of this work could but witness the results from day to day, they would feel amply repaid for any sacrifice they may have made. When one is there and sees the blessed work being done, he feels anxious, not only to give of his means to help these needy ones, but he is moved to give himself to the work.
A View of Nukahiva, Chief City of Marquesas: Population, 1,500.
The two letters which we publish herewith are indicative of the interest in the work of this Mission:
“Inclosed find $3.00 for the Mission. Please let me know if you get the money all right. I trust you will be satisfied with so small an amount. I will try to earn and send you some more. I am deaf and a servant-girl too.”
“I saw in your paper some time ago a very urgent call for help for suffering people. I was then in a financial strait, and to-day finds me the same, but I feel that I must do something for the One that has done so much for me. Now, if you please, put this [$5.00 inclosed in the letter] where it will do the most good, for in sending this I have to deny myself.”
Following is the report of cash received, up to March 8:—
Reported last week . . . . . . . $1,319 55
Cash received this week . . . . . . 45 20
Total . . . . . . . . . . . $1,364 75
S. N. CURTISS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Lesson I.—Sunday, April 3, 1898.
The Woman of Canaan.
Note.—Study in connection with the lesson the preceding verses of the chapter, and also read 1 Kings 17:8–24. Christ’s work in Galilee was continued for about two months after the death of John the Baptist. The opposition to His work continued to increase until its culmination at the cross. It will be noticed that the work of Elijah recorded in the reference above was performed in this same region. The object and mission of miracles may be dwelt upon by the teacher with profit to his class.
21 “And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of 22 Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and besought Him, saying, Send her away; for 23 she crieth after us. But He answered and said, I was not sent 24 but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came 25 and worshiped Him, saying, Lord, help me. And He answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and 26 cast it to the dogs. But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs 27 eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table. Then 28 Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.
29 “And Jesus departed thence, and came nigh unto the Sea of Galilee; and He went up into the mountain, and sat there. 30 And there came unto Him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they 31 cast them down at His feet; and he healed them: insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.”
Golden Text: “Then came she and worshiped Him, saying, Lord, help me.”Matt. 15:25.
Suggestive Questions.
(1) After leaving Galilee, to what places did Jesus go? Verse 21. Note 1. (2) Who came to Him at this place? Verse 22. (3) What appeal did she make to Him? Same verse. (4) What statement did she make in regard to her daughter? Same verse. (5) How were her words received? Verse 23. Note 2. (6) What request did the disciples make of the Saviour? Same verse. (7) What reply did the Saviour make to them? Verse 24. Note 3. (8) What did the woman then do? Verse 25. (9) What petition did she make to the Saviour? Same verse. (10) How did the Saviour reply to this request? Verse 26. Note 4. (11) What memorable reply did the woman make to the Saviour’s statement? Verse 27. (12) Having tested the woman’s faith, what did the Saviour say of it? Verse 28. (13) What assuring words did He speak to her? Same verse. (14) What was the result? Same verse. (15) To what place did the Saviour next go? Verse 29. (16) Who came to Him at this place? Verse 30. (17) For what purpose? Same verse. (18) What did He do for them? Same verse. (19) What effect did Christ’s work here have upon the multitude? Verse 31. (20) How did they show that they realized what power wrought these miracles? Same verse.
Notes.
1. Tyre and Sidon.—These cities were flourishing seaports on the shores of the Mediterranean. Tyre was twenty miles south of Sidon and thirty-five miles from the Sea of Galilee.
2. He answered her not a word.—In appearance the Saviour treated her supplications with indifference. In reality He was testing her faith, and thereby teaching us a lesson as well as those who were present at the time. Her remarkable faith is an enduring monument.
3. I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.—He was laying the foundation for His kingdom, and that must be laid among the people whom God recognized as His. Christ had told His disciples when He sent them out that they were to go only to the Jews; but this woman had come to Him. It was ever God’s plan to help the stranger, or one of another nation, who sought Him. See Deut. 10:17–19; 2 Chron. 6:32, 33. “God is no respecter of persons.” Whether the woman of Samaria, or the woman of Sidon, or the Samaritan leper, His grace flows freely for all.
4. To take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.—So the Jews in general regarded the nations around them. A “Gentile dog” was a common term of reproach. Morrison says: “There was some reason lying at the base of the designation. The heathens around were, in the mass, exceedingly unclean and ferocious; barking, too, incessantly, at the true God and godliness.” But the woman did not care for reproach. Her whole soul went out for her daughter’s salvation. Her faith would not be turned aside by a false pride. Whose should be?
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