CHAPTER XII.
Marching along the road came the Salvation Army. A crowd of juveniles bent on hilarity followed in line, mimicking and ridiculing them. The crowd on the sidewalk jeered, and a high dignitary in church affairs joined his voice with the rest, remarking that this rabble never ought to be allowed to parade the streets Sunday. Who knows how many degraded lives have been elevated by this much ridiculed religious body who do good work in the slums where religion is most needful, and in so doing follow more closely in the footsteps of the Christ than those who spend their energy in striving among themselves for precedence in the public schools and everywhere?
Why all this contention? Should not real Christian worshippers work in harmony?
Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Malachi ii, 10.
And there was also a strife among them which of them should be accounted the greatest.
But ye shall not be so; but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. Luke xxii, 24, 26.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings. Philippians ii, 14.
Shun profane and vain babblings. II Timothy ii, 16.
Be at peace among yourselves. I Thessalonians v, 13.
Seek peace and pursue it. Psalms xxxiv, 14.