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For the third, it had no
leaders and nothing to say at that time. On state occasions lines
were quite sharply drawn between the classes, but the general
kindliness of the people caused them at ordinary times to be so
relaxed that the difference was hardly to be noticed. Theirs was a
real neighborliness that roamed unrestrained and without prejudice
until brought up with a round turn at the barrier of traditional
orthodoxy. I remember well one instance of that kind. There lived in
our town a single family of Jews, well-to-do tradespeople, gentle
and good, and socially popular. There lived also a Gentile woman
of wealth, a mother in the strictly Lutheran Israel, who fed and
clothed the poor and did no end of good. She was a very pious woman.
It so happened that the Jewess and the Christian were old friends.
But one day they strayed upon dangerous ground. The Jewess saw it
and tried to turn the conversation from the forbidden topic.
"Well, dear friend," she said, soothingly, "some day, when we meet
in heaven, we shall all know better."
The barrier was reached.


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