An appeal to the people in regard to the use of swine flesh as food / by Wm. M'Adoo.

  • M'Adoo, Wm. (William)
Date:
1865
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Credit: An appeal to the people in regard to the use of swine flesh as food / by Wm. M'Adoo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17. has sel his servants an example thai they i houkl follow his steps, let them give him justice. Honesty with our Lord isnomorethan right, and the sooner we meet him on his own terms the better for as. Did the Gadites bring their laws to bear on him? No, he was a Jew and according to his human naturewas of'tlie stock of* Abraham and Israel. the 8th chapter of the Gospel by Mathew see whether our Lord has law in regard to the swine as food, and let this be looked on with care. Now there is one argument the swine eater seems to think they have and it is a very common one indeed, namely, Mathew chapter 15 verse 11, Not that which gocth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. There is no use in wasting words in argument here, some will take his own explanations, verse 20, after he had shown what defileth the man, namely, the evil thoughts, murders, audultories, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemy, these are things that defileth man, but to cat with unwashed hands defile not a man. When people are driven on this point I be sorry to hear their arguments, even that they may go to the reptiles vile, even the low order. Our Lord lived keeping both clean hands and a pure heart, and he don't blame us for washing our hands when going to cat. But he has said cast not your pearl before swine. I wonder if he ment swine eaters that refused to look his laws fairly in the face, this may be thought hard, but the swine is a hard beast, or worse emblem.— In Mark 5th chapter, there is one man it seems of the two there a chief for strength and fury, they could not bind him, their chains and fetters he broke and plucked asunder. Our Lord asked him his name, tlit is legeon says he. This was a title for a certain defi- nite portion of the Roman army, and I think history favors it that he was a liornan. If this be correct is there not here a powerful warning for both Jew and Gentile? If I mistake not a legeon is in or about 5000. If this be right it would make more than two to one on the swine, two to pull and one to drive, as there was about 2000 of the swine. Swine arc rather hard to drive in general, but it seems they had no chance of escape, here they went violently onward and downward. The pen men swine herds seems to have been impressed with the belief that the sooner off the better they fared. A few swine together has a bad smell, I think the smell that would come from such a concern as this would be fearful indeed. I reckon the disciples and followers of our Lord never had such a sight, we think pork would be little or none used by them all their days. We find the man who was delivered from the power of the devil cloathed in his right mind setting at the feet of Jesus, a good place to be. _ The ac-