And when she hath found it, she calleth
together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I
have found the piece which I had lost. Even so, I say unto you,
there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth.--Luke 15:1-10.

Every Jewish community had a fringe of unchurched people, who could not
keep up the strict observance of the Law and had given up trying. The
pious people, just because they were pious, felt they must cold-shoulder
such. Jesus walked across the lines established. What seems to have been
the motive that prompted him? Why did the Pharisee withdraw, and why did
Jesus mix with the publicans?

_What groups in our own communities correspond to the __"__publicans and
sinners,__"__ and what is the attitude of religious people toward them?_

_What social groups in college towns are spoken of with contempt by
college men, and why?_

_Is there a Pharisaism of education? Define and locate it._

Fifth Day: The Problem of the Delinquents

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was
lost.--Luke 19:10.

Here Jesus formulates the inner meaning and mission of his life as he
himself felt it. He was here for social restoration and moral salvage. No
human being should go to pieces if he could help it. He was not only
willing to help people who came to him for help, but he proposed to go
after them. The "lost" man was too valuable and sacred to be lost.

_How does the Christian impulse of salvation connect with the activities
represented in the National Conference of Charities and Correction?_

_How does a college community regard its __"__sinners__"__?_ Suppose a man
has an instinct for low amusements and a yellow sense of honor, how do the
higher forces in college life get at that man to set him right?

Sixth Day: Going Beyond Justice

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a
householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers
into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a
shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out
about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace
idle; and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and
whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did
likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went ou