Under the Parsonage Roof by Althea S. Miller FELLOWSHIP G et busy and finish your break fast, Ardyth. It’s almost time to go to Sunday School.” “Yes, I know.” Then fastening her attention fully on Mother, and with an almost pensive air, the little miss asked, “Why can’t we have our own fellowship? I wish we could.” “What do you mean by ‘our own fellowship’ ?” “Well, why can’t we have our own private family meeting? We could sing together and each of us could pray as we do in family worship. Daddy could even preach to us, and it would just be us. Why can’t we?” “What new wrinkle is this?” Moth er asked herself as she attempted to formulate an answer for her six year old. “ I thought you liked to go to Sun day School. What makes you want to stay home? Don’t you think our family has fellowship together every day of the week?” “ I like Sunday School, but I like to be with our family, too. Maybe some time we’ll all be too tired to go to Sunday School. Then we can have our own fellowship.” “Honey, the time will never come, in our house that we are all too tired to go to Sunday School. No matter how busy we have been or how weary we may feel, we have never neglect ed the work of the Lord for our own personal feelings. We must always put the Lord Jesus first. In fact, the fellowship we have at home is made sweeter because we obey the com mand of the Lord: “ Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching” (Heb. 10:25). Not all of Mother’s reasoning was comprehensible to her young daugh ter. Nor are all of our Father’s rea sonings and commands comprehen sible to us, especially if obedience causes the “ old man” any inconven ience. But God’s children must learn to lay feelings on the altar of com plete obedience to His revealed will for them. It is right and wonderful to desire fellowship with the “fam ily” , but we only will know its deep blessings as we fellowship according to His directions. God keep us from a narrow “ just our own fellowship.” Read the Christian Home column by Rev. Paul Boyles on Page 47 of this month's KING'S BUSINESS.
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