February, 1940
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The greatest challenge that could ever come to both capital and labor is a godly Christianity. The Duties o f Husbands and Wives (3 :1 -7 ) We consume a tremendous amount of energy in our endeavor to make govern ment and industry great institutions. But the. heart of these is neither in the statehouse or the factory, but in the
his garments of profession about him and live as if he is under quarantine. Peter has told us why; now he tells us what. And he sets forth four sets of duties of individuals to four institu tions; 1. The Institution of Government. 2. The Institution of Business. 3. The Institution of Home. 4. The Institution of Society. The Duties o f Subjects to Governments (2 :1 3 -1 7 ) Has a Christian any duty to govern ment? Indeed so. And if he has no respect for that duty, he does not have the right conception of his heavenly cit izenship. He who is a citizen of heaven is also a citizen upon earth. And when he respects that earthly-heavenly axis of citizenship, he will “with well doing . . . put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.” So effectively did these early Chris tians promote this program of well doing, and so thoroughly did they si lence the objections of those pagans, that in three centuries. they conquered, in the name of Christ, the nation, forum, and senate, leaving paganism nothing but its idols and temples. And then, sad to say, the devil had his day and brought the idols and temples of pagan ism into the (Church and so degenerated and compromised it that it became or ganizationally and corporately only an other religion until the Reformation came and gave the world the untram meled witness of justification by faith. The Duties o f Employees to Employers ( 2:18 -25 ) Whenever there is trouble in the world, we look for a Jew on whom to blame it. And when it comes to labor disputes we can go back to that Jew, Laban, who changed Jacob’s wages ten times for the precedent of labor dis putes. But prone as we are to blame the Jew for his •evil, we are equally unwilling to bless him for his good. But here is another Jew, Peter, with a formula for settling labor disputes. Peter here speaks to “servants,” but in that one word he speaks to the whole economic structure and addresses him self to the whole category of the em ployed and employing, for “servant” was a term which included all free men, clerks, musicians, teachers, and physi cians. To the individuals in this group, he throws out a simple word, “subjection,” which has nothing to do with the abject fear found in slavery but rather with that lofty conception of service ren dered in the fear of God and in the recognition of obligation to duty. If in the pursuit of this policy the Christian suffers, then let him remem ber that he dignifies and glorifies his common duty by the knowledge that “ Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow [not ‘in’ His steps] his steps.”
home. And in the home stand husband and wife. What is stated in this passage is God’s ideal for marriage—a new, yes, an old concept of life. To many today, alas, it would be a new ideal of mar riage. I. THE IDEAL WIFE (vs. 1-6). Her Attitude—“subjection” (v. 1). Subjection to what? To a God-given [Continued on Page 78]
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Two Australian students at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in the Class of 1922 are represented by this song. Mr. Hooker is a mem ber of the Music Faculty at the Institute, and Mr. Hall is the Organizing Secretary of an interstate Christian youth movement known as Cam paigners for Christ, with headquarters in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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