Show IN 1 TIlE THE n POUCHES There I Is a curious local significance nce In a sermon preached in Salt Lake las last Jast t Sunday morning The subject was that story of the man blind from birth hirth whose sight was restored l h by the Master You know the Incident The name name o of tho the blind man Is not given s Commentators know very ery little JUlie about him but the they are arc agreed that he was vas n n. beggar begg-ar His Ills type can be found Cound about the porches porch s of oC the temples in Jeru Jerusalem alem to this day and his counterpart as asto to occupation nn and character character character char char- acter Is encountered b by the tourist at al t every shrine from Vest Westminster in I abbey to Lu Benares He lie was a bg beggar aI And c lecause e he lie chose to bc beg In the porch of the temple tem tem- cm- cm pie he was one one of oC the ba basest bases est oC oe e t lf the low lowest t of all created beings I He lIe Ic was base because he hc ask asked cd then atthe atthe at atthe the do door r of the r Ho Ht mafia made commerce of sacred things Displaying Display ing lug his deformity Jn In us Its mot most and repulsive form fonn he lie appt il Ii II atthe at nt atthe the threshold dedicated to prayer IaPi r 10 to the softened sensibilities of oC those thoe who hl were minded to pray Without a 1 care arc for Cor the God thoughts of oC whom had melted the tho hearts of those who vho pa cd d he ho walled his mea measureless I mi timid and rd clutched in hands like claws theco the co coins ls his self abasement and his Ic- Ic de deception had wrung from from pity pity In lit he che her r porches orches of oC the temple erected to th thu service of or God s the thc Living Li He lie was not desolate There wn Wi-rt his parents Tile They were not nol so o far ai away When the ees call called calleJ 1 for fn them to explain what the tho man le restored Nl d remained silent upon they came and the they spoke Probably he had supported sup UJ u- u ported them Probably It was th they that led him hm to his place In th thEm tho must mst likely of the porches and came to 10 o got get d I him when the thc stream of wor worshippers had run r c dry The whole case Is S sordid sor so- did in the extreme That ulan man blind f from from om birth as to his physical o eyesight was immeasurably low Ev Even n jn the lepers on whom the lie Master Muster exercised td his matchless s gift o healing wore were ut iut so NO base as he not he-not not he-not not so s o of yielding leJ good Ho lIo begged In the porches of or the temple sacred to the service of the Most High His And he ho fattened on th the s sWeet redeeming sense Rense of oC pardon that moved the people people peo peo- plc as thc they came from prayers He coined the san sanctity of oC his fellow Is Israelites Is- Is Into coppery for his own en enrichment en- en and for rOI tho the support of of- parents parents par par- eats who were F sufficiently base to take that wage vage o of wickedness and with It bu buy their bread The case Irresistibly suggests ts the said Clemenson There is your our blind beggar haunting the porches of the temples all over the East last There is h the creature blind from birth and deficient In every ory attribute of oC mora moral cha character by the tIle same rule that w we concede laxity to the physically dc tic e alwa always Those who are aro re responsible re- re fo for him him In the that thai they prom profit by his prostitution use their better bettel ju judgment as to the chosen chose for COl his exhibit of his tics and the they save es themselves labor b by appropriating the wages of hi his I baseness He goes oes to the temples tern tem pies ples of oC tho the East where men and women In ble blessed ed posse possession lon of mental mental men men- tal and ond moral health gather for 01 th thc tho 5 worship of their Go God arId and there while the broken and contrite heart turn turns C CIn in yearning gratefulness to the tho Make Maket for Cor that He ha has forgiven them th this 5 blind beggar In the porches display 3 his rheumy eyes and prays their pit pity He lies about it It of course That Thai i ii tho thu stock in trade of ot the church porch I beggar bess-ar wherever the Asian sun ma rna may shine He doesn't go so out on ora the tho high way war and arad take his chances with th the pl passers enl He doesn't confine himself to 10 the tho ho simple statement of or his mis fortune severe fortune severe CIe enough ellough Heaven Hea knows But If It It be a withered arm he thrusts it out In attitudes that hoi ho- rib the eye ee and appall appaH the soul wit with its hideousness l If It Jt he be a sore h he u uses es all the craft that hi hl his s centered cunning and und the training o ohis of oC his parents or guardians can employ to flash the sight of r normal upon creatures creatures crea crea- tures lures the shocking spectacle of or that tha rotting flesh But he never Is ill III aa us he pretends pretend to be On a 3 basis ball however slight th the thebe be beggar Jar in temple templo l porches ches strains h his sightless orb orbs till the teaI teat tear ducts ral rain J t t their thell pity compelling stores anI and shrieks from pain ho lie does does- not feel So the tho Clemenson starting starling with n no nomore more thin than tho the basis of his curse curso from birth adds mendacity to mendicancy and paints a picture of or conditions condition which liI h ho believes will S. S wiltho wit win the tho most generous largess Insensible to the presence of lr it the Christ t who WIH passes b by he lie strips his sores and seek necks for cn cash cosh h It Is a blessed ell consolation that it 1 a itI miracle was wrought ht In the lie case cast ol 01 of the tho beggar blind from from birth While luil he sat there the most abject creature In all that ridden horror country tin the most hopeless unit in a t lay day of oC hOI hope hopelessness leg ness the least Important atom ir In If tho ho meeting meeting- of the dispensation that thai ha beggar blind from Crom birth sitting In the hI porches of the hol holy temple the Mas Master ter tr or pa passed ed b by and and saw him hlin Anti And he In anointed his eyes with a clay made mad from the dust that lint had b been cn trodden into the porch on the hurrying hUlTIng fee of willing worshippers and anti sent th the startled beggar ar to wash wath In the poo pool of And Anti h ho lie came back back see fee feeing ing lug That miracle did not consist In r re restoring storing the sight ht of ot the the blind ma man mall H Its greatness g Its majesty maJest was wai as measured meas mens by the lie altered nature of or the manThe man mali The Master laster himself had been heen assailed I a little time before and ancI had hial c escaped I when HI His foes COCA had taken up stones stoie ti with which to kill Him And these same enemies encountering the he work lorl r of the Power the they could not crush demanded de dc of the he hc beggar reformed how he would make explanation And th the theman man no moio more a beggar redeemed al all I his abasement here heie at the temple porches por by standing before them with I the thc splendid coula courage e of one Olle whoso whose hOS p. p pe every e 1 eye was opened And h he said s-ald I was as blind now no noI I see sec Let us hope there is 81 sight ht even e to for fOl forthe the thc said CI menson May la he lie some sonic sometime time sitting there In the lie temple S porches 3 where whelO those who counsel with Ith I him believe e the 1 streams ol of alms ainu will vill how flow hear the voice olce anti and feel fee I the hand of or that Master to whose service lie hc consecrated himself in bap hap baptism anti and ma may he lie rise a a. a Man lan May he lie scorn In that better day to exaggerate s t his deformities May he bo be proud to tc stand on oti an equal tooting fooling with Gods God's I humanity May Ia lie he hide his scars scams ii If f he have ha them and nobly refuse the benefaction which comes conies on the withering with ering 11 wings S of oC an any falsehood For if there were wert redemption to the thc blind man that hc begged ged In the temple porches there Is salvation eve e cn tot for S Ci Clemenson cm cam n. n I |