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Show Why Because this great service to the man and to the community in which he lived had cost some one a hunch of hogs. Did these people value these hogs more highly than 'they did the life of this one man? Yes, that is part of the story, but they were still more selfish than that. They cherished their own private property interests above community welfare. It was In groat benefit to the .community to be rid of this awful menace to the life' of its citizens, but it cost somebody some-body a few filthy hogs. They would rather have had this madman in their midst than to lose the hogs. There are citizens of the country of the Gardarenes today who are willing for their community 4o suffer anything any-thing rather than they they sacrifice some little private interest. They do not lovo their neighbors as they do themselves. I . : . 1K)ES HE LINGER HERE? (Communicated) We are told that in a certain country, coun-try, "the country of the Gadarenes," there was a man in whom were a great many devils. This man would wear no clothing, refused to live in a . house, but dwelt in the tombs where the dead had been laid away. He would torture himself by cutting his body with stones. Not only was this man in a bad way so tar as ne nimseit was concerned, but he was also a public nuisance and a public menace. It was dangerous danger-ous for men to pass by where he was. He could not be restrained, for often the yhad bound him with chains, but lie broke the chains and was free again. Surely he' was such a person as no community would want to have in its midst. He was there, however, and the people of that community com-munity seemed to be helpless. Jesus came that way one day. He drove out the devils from the man, but in so doing he allowed them to enter into some swine that were feeding feed-ing near by and these animals rushed into the sea and were drowned. One would think that the people would be exceedingly grateful to their benefactor bene-factor who had changed this public menace into a good, respectable and peaceful citizen. But this was not so. "The whole multitude of the country coun-try of the Gadarenes round about besought be-sought him to depart from them." |