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love and sacrifice, He commissions us to go and to tell others of His power to save. That message of reconciliation we are to proclaim not only by word of lip, but also by work of life. Our love to Christ il proved and demonstrated in the degree of affection and unselfishness which we mani fest toward others in the world for which He died. We are to bear one another’s burdens (Gal. 6:2), to esteem others better than ourselves (Phil. 2:3), to be kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another (Eph. 4:32), and in honor pre ferring others above ourselves (Rom. 12:10). We are to exemplify to the world the life of our blessed Master who “pleased not himself” (Rom. 15:3). This highly ex alted standard of living is made possible by the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian. Only God can work in us the desire to forget ourselves and champion the cause of others. ,Have we allowed Him to exercise that power in our lives? While I was boarding at a farmhouse in the first years of my ministry, early in the morning before breakfast, Jonas came to the door and beckoned me to follow him. He led me to the chicken house. A hen sat on a nest with a brood of chickens peeping out from under her wings. “Touch her, Louie,” Jonas said. . “She’s cold. Look at that wound in her head. A weasel sucked all the blood from her body, and she never once moved for fear the lit tle beast would get her chickens.” Jonas wasn’t a Christian. His wife had been praying for him. I had been hunting for some illustration to make plain Christ’s sacrifice for him. “Oh, Jonas,” I said, “that was just like Christ. He endured all that suffering on the cross. He could have moved and saved His own life, but He wouldn’t, because you and I were under His wings. If He had moved, we would have been lost. Jonas saw the point, and received the Lord as his Saviour.—Louis S. B auman . II. P oints for D iscussion In planning this meeting, the leader might ask other members of the society to discuss the teachings found in Bible stories in which the persons involved showed a keen sense of justice and a will ingness to defend others. One example is the story of David and Jonathan as re corded in 1 Samuel 18:1-4; 19:1-7; 20:1-42; 23:16-18 and 2 Samuel 1:17-27; 9:1-13. Another suitable narrative is that of Queen Esther’s use of her opportunity to defend her people from the cruel plot of Haman (Esther 3:8 to 8:17). Then, in the New Testament, the little Book of Philemon is a beautiful example of the intercession of the great Apostle Paul for a runaway slave,. Here the plea does not depend upon any right possessed by Onesimus. It appeals to Philemon’s mercy and to his sense of justice in the light of the salvation in Christ that has come to him through the apostle who is writing the letter.— S elected . Helps fo r the Leader I. S upreme L ove of O thers
knowing that my employees will behave themselves and protect my interests, whereas before my clerks stole from me and my workmen fought and quarreled. Every em ployer of labor in India will tell you the same story.”—Adapted from Five Thousand Best Modern Illustrations, by Hallock. II. T ruthfulness toward M an and G od Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. —O liver W endell H olmes . God knows us through and through. The most secret thought, which we most hide from. ourselves, is not hidden from Him. —E. B. P usey . I have seldom known any one who de serted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.— P aley . A just weight may seem a prosaic thing, but in God’s eyes it gleams with immortal poetry.— Gathered Gems. III. M isdirected E ffort A boy of New York City risked his life many times by climbing up the steep sides of the Palisades in order to get into Palis ades Park. At last he was caught by the police in his hazardous feat, and confessed that he had been doing it for three sum mers. When they told him that no admis sion was charged up to noon, the boy was so chagrined and confused that he almost collapsed. He had been risking his life for nothing. That is exactly the sort of thing done by every lawbreaker.' He spends any amount of time and ingenuity to get things illegally which would get them many times over if spent in honest ways. He cheats himself in every attempt to cheat others. —Moody Monthly, v From the Old Testament we have a won derful illustration of the spiritual truth found in Philippians 2 :4: “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” The intervention of Reuben had resulted in the preservation of Joseph’s life when he was about to be slain by his brothers. Judah was the one who had instigated the selling of Joseph into Egypt, a very ignoble deed, to say the least. But Judah was changed very remarkably in the course of time, and he is hardly recognizable as the same character when we meet him later in Egypt, pleading before Joseph for the release of his youngest broth er, Benjamin. God had been dealing with Judah in the school of discipline, ,and Jo seph, unrecognized by his brethren, was al lowed to give the “examination.” Judah “passed” it with much satisfaction to Jo seph, who was convinced that his brother was truly repentant and had now trans ferred his concern from self to others. Judah’s transformation is a shadow of the work of grace which changes the Christian’s viewpoint and attitude toward life. Our Saviour was the essence of unselfishness, for He came to give His life a ransom for many. On the ground of that transcending AUGUST 29, 1937 STANDING UP FOR THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS G enesis 37:21, 22; 44: 18-34 Meditation on the Lesson
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