To Nazareth or Tarsus?

Southworth Horatio Woodburn 1839-

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LONG as orthodoxy believes that its wisestSo
course is to ignore the results of the higher criti-
cism,he who would appeal to the occupants of the
— more, desires persuade that "manpews nay to
street" relationin the whose to the divine testa-
mentary gifts is that of residuary legatee to the
man in the pew—must follow the example of the
pulpit, and allow himself no participation in the
fruits of critical scholarship.Nazareth or Tarsus?
I.
An open volume.
Of The Man who stands before it courtesy per-
mits the phrase ^'in the prime of life."
The Book, like Shakespeare, "is more praised
than read"—thoughtfully.
The Man is strangely alone.
He was most unfairly handicapped in that
midnight footrace; for his competitor was en-
cumbered with but a single garment, and that
theof lightest material.
The sta.rting post was the bedside of an un-
faithful wife.
Then he went out into the still, clear night,
thanking God that the reflected shame was his
alone to bear. Thankful that to no child-life
would come the overshadowing ignominy of a
mother's sin.
Alone; without even the memory of mother,
sister, brother, child.—
'NAZARETH OR TARSUSf12
Not but that he had experienced a mother's
love,—on its reverse side. For the women
saintly women, if you will take their funeral ser-
mons at their face value—whom he was obliged
name, hadto call by that blessed taught him
maternal instinct in isthat the a woman no ho-
lier, though wiser, than if it were endued with
hoofs and horns defend its n young, orto ov, to
for its offspringsecure own daintier pastures
and sweeter waters.
;There are oases in the desert—but where the
waters Marahof have fructified. Blessed are
they maywho abide under the beneficent shade
that thev foster.
This is not storya we are telling you. Come
Avith us, as step by step we walk by the side of
this man, learning his strength and weaknesses;
and so, knowing his limitations, we may detect
any mistake in his reasoning, any error in his
conclusions.
But we cannot rightly judge whether we
should allow him to influence our opinions till
Ave andmeasure the sincerity of his purpose:
equally important the iso-it is to judge whether
lating hardconditions of his life have made him
and bitter or have fostered a calm, self-poised,
judicial temperament.
Yet v»^e may be sure of this; that if he is not