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THE FREE CHURCHES. ENGLAND AND GERMANY: SHALI. WE BEHAVE AS CHRISTIANS?

The following article is from the Mun- chester Guardian:-

SATURDAY, MAY 9ra, 1993.

SNAKES AND SCORPIONS THE SERPENT CHARMER OF

LUXOR..

The special correspondent of the Times writes: The charmer's name is Moussa One of the most famous debates in the Bo drove with us from Luxor, sitting an House of Commons daring the last century the box-seat of one of the carriages with arose over the case of one Don Pacifico, a

a basket in his hand, which, he sufficiently Mediterranean Jew who happened to be satisfied us, was empty; a little man and

Athens fur

untrimmed British subject, whose house at

bristling, swarthy with some reason or other had been sacked by the moustache, lean-faced, and quick of move- mab, and who presented to the Greek Guvernment as perhaps you and have to be in ment a demand for compensation which was dealing with cobras and scorpions and Lord Morley says, 2 absurdly fraudulent on the such. Dressed in black with a white face of it. It was on this occasion that fahner urban on his head, carrying a longish

ton, at the end of a five hours' speceli,

out his dramatic challenge to the House in his hand, he led the way we livi English following-amid the rubbish heaps "whether, a Homan in days and piles of broken masonry and old mud to say, ufuli hell himself free from indignitycks which litter the dusty plain about when he could say Civis Romanus, also a British subject, in whatever East he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and streng arm of England will protect him against injustice and The debate travelled far beyond Pacifico "to the temper and the principles on which nations in our mastern era should conduct their dealings with one another Gladstone, in particular, says his bio lifted the debate above the narrow

particular

wrong

Greges

bo

We are

for the rights that to our

he said, let us do as we would by: ; let us pay all'

fren institu- felle State and to the infancy of from instit tions which we should desire nil should exact from others towards their authority and strength." Gladstone, Morley adds, "had not real history for nothing, ho was not a Christina for nothing."

low subjects, resident in

A TEAD FROM OXFORD.

He was not a Christian for nothing. It is not just such Christians, Christians, that is, who take their religión seriously and that only in individual bat in national and international Affair-that Ringland

To be precise,

cise, has urgently needs to-day not the time fully come when we should begin to behave as Christians towark

rast

Temple of Karnak. As he walked he hargued the world at large, chanting, in a high-pitched monotone, texts, we ware told, from the Karan, and powerful in- cantations taught him by his grandfather. A great man must his grandfather have been. He learned all his lore from Hakim Seed Suleiman himself, a Sheikh so potent that every snake and scorpion in Egypt knows and trembles at his name to-day.

Now and again Moussa stopped to exhort so likely-looking pile of chist and He stones with especial earnestness. wild even thump it with his stick and, in the name of Suleiman, adjure what- ever obstens creatures might be in hiding to come out. The first two or three such piles we drew blank. Then: He smells something" said the interpreter. Calling our attention to a particular hole among heaped bits of masonry the little man attacked the orifice from afar off with the point of his stick, thrusting at it angrily, chipping the sides, stirring the dust before it. Then, advancing gingerly and with his Howing sleeves pushed back to leave bare to the shoulder. his lean arras reaching out, he picked dolicately out of that dust, by the extreme tip of its tail, a wriggling scorpion

Nog is was not sleight of hand. The scorpion was there where he found it,

lati eneasies in Germany? Happily there are signs not a few that English

ist the nien are setting themselves to

another matter. It was not a large one, fire of hate out of their boyums and rethough how it may have gub there is reconciliation with those with whom they

bat large enough-some four or five inches have been at strife, For example, Dr. Deistoarn, the friend aarl fellow-worker of long over all, 4 greenish-yellow,, semi. transleri, horrid thing. For a while inte th

James Hope Moulton, las been delivering a course of lectures in Christi Musa played with it for our benefit. latting it do its best to sting the calloused anity at Selly Oak, Birmingham

tip of his thumb, and making it sit visited Manchester last week. At Oxford

motionless at the word of command in this spring & number of German students

name Then he Suliman's dreaded are to be received as the guests of sonie, members of the University The Grimsby settled away. Again he caught it and placed it on a stone, whence it promptly skipper and his crew of whom we were

for utard and who were only rescued by his fece more ndjured it in Suleiman's the other day, who had been given placed it there, drew a ring round it with

finger,

and marked a cross before it, up

German trawler which stood by the

name to stay still. And it stayed, yen for two days during a terrible storm in the North Sea, and for another ways though he heat the stone close by it with

his stick. kept them in

tow,

will not easily believe tint all Germans are "blonde beasts." Most significant and encouraging of all is the vote

taken in the Oxford Union Society, when, by -177 to 74. the undergraduates of the University declared that the time is now ripe for war enmities to be discarded and for a friendly attitude to be taken up towards all the peoples who

fought ag

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us in the late war. When the educated of a land can speak the language of

of a luity Christian chivalry after this fashion there

For myself, Ilike to need to be despondent. to think that the vote of the Oxford Union is another evidence of the leavening influenco of the Student Christian Movement, which is doing such magniflerns service for the King don of God today in all the centres of university life.

PUNISHING THE UNBOLS.

But of course there are other influences at work. One section of the English Press and public bus apparently only one thought of Germany, and, like the unmerciful servant in Christ's parable, is ready to take her by the throat and cast her into prisun until sho has paid all that is due. How she is buth to

nad to be cast into prison their

More scorpions followed, with the same pantomime in every case, till scorpions palled upon us. We wanted bigger gama and clamoured for snakes-the larger and more venomous the better. Well, he in- quired, where would we like him to look

for them? So wa directed him along the old mud-brick wall of the Romans, full on the face of which the sun was beating. And the snakes came.

*

First, a thin grey zanke, perhaps thres and a half fert long hauled struggling out of a hole in the old wall and flung upon the sand at our feet. We were assured that it was abominably poisonous; but from the shape of its head it looked as harmless as a grass snake at home.

Again he smelled something; amolled it from afar something big-perhaps cubra: And presently before a gram of three holes close together in the wall he stopped in a very fury of exhortation. Every charm that his grandfather knew must surely have been invoked ag the little man threatened and com-

thrashed ai

wall manded and with his stick, while ten feet above a nair of little owls sitting on a ledge

the

NOW

anger does not permit them to policy the wall blinked down in astonishment i

But they gu on backing France's mart

in the Ruhr, vowing that they will visit the sins of the Kaiser and his Jankers upon

to the third and fourth genera

and libber their heads at us ridiculously. After thrusting his stick into one hole

all German they are challenged either after another, he conveyed to us that the

tion, and

three were connected inside the wall: and the snake, he gave us to understand, was dediging him from one to another. At

in the name of cturity or wisdun, seeking to justify themselves by asking what were Germany would have shown to us if she wemed to have cornered his prey and,

bad been lucky enough to win the war, all that, of course, is simply start paganism:

and

In a

reaching his bare arm Almost to the

shoulder deep into one of the black open-

if we are content to be pagan there is no more to be said.. But if we are Christian-ings I wouldn't have done it for all the money in the world, he drew out, the It is possible to

will ask my argue the

readers to rentile ding its best to resist, a struggling paragraph, but

in Afnerica at the cobra getting on for five fret long. It was remember what happened War. Those who crtainly a formidable locking thing na it close of the terrible have read

Mr. Drinkwater's lid this way and that over the sand or scen

exand "Abraham Lincoln ”

will

not readily for toneed to rear its hand and get the little scene in the White House hood like a furaens of one of the old

Fention kings come to life. when Frederick Douglass, the negro

comes to ask for reprisals un Southend

who h whites for the murder of

negroes been taken prisoner fighting for the North Lincoln will not hear of it: "It is for us to But good example, not to follow a wicked onu." And that was Lincoln's policy When, towards the close of the long

Southern leulers us

To the creature thus unfeared to back tongue flickering in and out of its narrow slit of a mouth. Mama, stooping down before it, slowly reached out his hand, very gradually, almost imperceptibly, he brought it nearer to that wicked-looking hend until it was bout six inches away. Then

thome of his own weco for hang | ntainly within striking distance.

wered them in n ebamnilome

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ako play.

And are they really wild creatures that

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there, and never fails to produce both scorpions and snakes. People have told me. It was not merely that Lincoln how they took him out into the desert and had learned the truth of Burke's great he found them there as easily as in the uphorism that magnanimity in politics is familiar mud brick wali at Karnak, Ta not seldom the truent windo ho bad. drunk inspiration from a still deeper well: all Egypt, then but his own private saakehouse or sarpeat-warmen Has be he was not a Christian for nothing And

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