The Caucasian

TARSUS.
Let brotherly love continue.-Paul.

Saul of Tarsus-how the world has answered over that name for twice a thousand years!
Today as I write they are killing people in the vile heathen streets of Tarsus-continuation of a tragedy centuries long.
Once a great city where Antony and Cleopatra walked, where the patrician built his villa by the sea, under the rule of the Moslem squalid huts now mark the site of proud Tarsus of the first century.
The city was the boyhood home of a little Jewish tentmaker whose philosophy has changed the world
Having seen the great light, this little Jew pondered in Arabia until the same light sprang up in him and there went to his native city to tell the story of the new and universal brotherhood
But Tarsus would not listen,
So Paul went away with Barnabas on missionary journeyings. and after perils by land and sea he went to imperial Rome with his sublime message
Rome put him in bonds. She left the bloody headless body of the apostle to the gentiles on the road to Ostia
But some had heard and heeded even in the household of Nero. and in 300 years Paul's religion was the religion of Rome.
But Tarsus. like Gallio, "cared for none of these things."
Paul's religion leavened Europe. It shook the world. Christian civilization grew and sent missionaries. 2,000 years after Paul. to Tarsus. And Tarsus killed the missionaries.
Poor. lost Tarsus.
Century following century it rejected the only doctrine on which men can build their society-the brotherhood of man.
Cities and nations that have heeded the teachings of Saul of Tarsus have grown and flourished. Cities and nations that, like Tarsus, have clung to provincial selfishness and to the propaganda of hatred and exclusiveness have dwindled and drooped and died.
Paul's doctrine of brotherly love is dynamic.
Even the Moslem under the influence of Christian schools has learned somewhat the lesson of religious tolerance.
And the young Turks, many of whose leaders are fresh from the Christian colleges established in Turkey by Christian missionaries, have arisen to the successful demand of real parliamentary government-
While Tarsus remains an object lesson for the slow moving finger of scorn.