T HE K I NG ' S B U S I N E S S FRIDAY, Nov. 28. Rom. 12:1-8. Members One of Another. Acceptable service can only spring from love to Christ. The motive is the measure of its worth. Love always gives its. best and never makes anything of the sacrifice. We are not only members of Christ’s body, we are members one of another and therefore mutually de pendent. If one member suffer, all the other members suffer also. No man can live unto himself. Whether he is con scious of it or not, every act of his has an influence upon other people and he is himself influenced to a great extent by what others do. Eph. 4:32. SATURDAY, Nov. 29. Phil. 2 :5 -11 . The Mind That Was in Christ. No one can follow the example of Christ who does not have the mind of Christ. His indwelling life will manifest itself through repeated and perpetual incarnation. While His ex ample is a constant incentive to love and to good works, He supplies through the Holy Spirit, the inward dynamic by which His ideals can be actualized, His outward life repeated and His exam ple folowed. This objective is attained not through struggle, strain and effort, but simply by abiding in Him as the branch abideth in the vine. Christianity places great emphasis upon the passive virtues, such as humil ity. Both Greek and Latin words for humility carry a suggestion of some thing grovelling and humiliating. Chris tianity however, has transformed the idea and dignified it, showing that humility is something radically differ ent from humiliation. The word “clothed” in vs. 5 has reference to thq long white garment usually worn by slaves. It signifies that they should be SUNDAY, Nov. 80. 1 Pet. 5 :5 -11 . Serve One Another.
1067 willing to take any place and to per form any office however humble, that might serve and benefit others. It is a fact that some of the early Christians actually sold themselves into slavery that they might preach the Gospel to those who were in bondage. LETTER FROM DR. HURLBURT The following quotation is from a letter received from Dr. Chas. Hurlburt, General Director of the African Inland Mission. “I think you will realize how much this (Mr. Hurlburt refers here to a general store costing about $10,000 to be centrally located in East -Africa so that provisions can be sent to the dif ferent sections of this vast field) is needed in the Congo, when I tell you that now we have to pay 40c a lb. for flour; 45c a lb. for sugar; 22c a lb. for coarse salt; 50c a lb. for fine salt; for white cotton cloth such as we used to pay 6c to 10c per yard, we now pay from 40c to 75c a yard according to quality, while a great many necessities cannot be had at all. There is no flour here except wormy, bad flour; the last we paid 40c a lb. for we were obliged to throw away. Nails, bolts, hoes, and all hardware we cannot get at any price.” These facts ought to stir us to prayer and benevolence. We ought to assist our missionaries in every way possible in these trying days. In another part of his letter Dr. Hurlburt said he or dered a keg of nails 22 months ago and they are still 200 miles from their des tination. What patience and endurance is developed in these times by those in pioneer missionary work.
Our mood has much to do with our might. The man who calmly expects to win has already begun to conquer.
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