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Show Sheep With Most Wool Pierce Harris, who writes a column for the Atlanta Journal, tells the story of a young preacher, preach-er, who was "not discouraged by the onslaught of evil against the citadels of goodness" nor the difficulty dif-ficulty of securing money, but by the fact that fellow Christians "were systematically robbing his little church of its few leaders by a continued system of visitation visita-tion and appeal." Mr. Harris expresses the view that the church people of any community, if they want to "spread the word," can work upon up-on the citizens who do not belong to any church. He goes on to say, on the basis of his experience that "a family has to be worth at least S5.000 before these evangelistic evan-gelistic vandals are interested." The fact of the matter is that many heathens, in foreign lands, have been mystified by the bitterness bit-terness and hostility exhibited by the various branches of the Christian Chris-tian religion. They find it difficult diffi-cult to accept the doctrine of Christianity so long as those who profess the faith seem to be unable un-able to get together on a live-and-let-live basis. There is, of course, some point to their observation. This should not necessarily disturb the Christians because the probability is that those who profess to follow Jesus Christ exhibit ex-hibit a spirit that, on the average compares favorably with that found on the earth today. After all, it is easy to stand on the sidelines and pick out the flaws in humanity, but it is quite different dif-ferent to serve on the battle-line battle-line and attempt to overcome the defects. I |