-.'ot oven the Jewish law would coin
>el a woman to suffer such an igno
nlny. If a man married a woman
vlthoiit tellhig her he wns a tanner,
ibo could have the matrimonial bonds
nstantly annulled, as soon as the de?
ception was fouud out. Of course,
here had to be tanners among the
lews, ns there must be hangmen for
his present generation; yet, so blt
:erly were the tanners despised In
indent times that by the eastern law
io tanner was allowed to build his
:annery nearer to the outskirts of a
town than fifty cubits. It was to this
losplsed home that the heavenly vision
?ame, opening the gate of the Chris?
tian church to the gentile nations.
Your home, O man, O woman, may be
bombie; lt may be located In what the
lrlstocratlc people call the slums; lt
aiay even have been associated with
the vicious pollution of society; but
sven there the voice from the heavenly
mansions may be hoard. "I came not,"
said the compassionate Saviour, "to
call the righteous, but sinners, to re?
pentance." You may be a social out?
cast, as uruch shunned as Simon the
tanner, but In your house, too, you
may hear a voice saying, "Come, now,
and let us reason together; though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
white as snow; though they he red
like crimson, they shall be as wool."
A Message ot Salvation.
