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everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” He is “the Prince of Peace,” the One whose glorious return is the “blessed hope” of the church, and the One to whom obei sance and submission will be shown when we shall see Him as He is and when every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall “confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Christ is the Heir to the Davidic throne. What Chris tian can think lightly of the Hebrew race when the Son of God was willing to be thus identified with it? Helps for the Leader 1. T h e J ew H onored A Hyde Park orator, denouncing the feeble’ efforts of the Jews to resist the Roman oppression, suggested that if they had appealed more to the sword and less, to the sacred writings they might have fared much better. One in the crowd asked, “But where are the Romans today ; .4ISsNowhere” was the quick response. . “And where are the Jews today?” ? ■’ “Everywhere” was the sarcastic but sat isfactory reply,— P ickering . II. J ews W ho H ave A chieved 1. Jews have attained great prominence in different spheres of activity: Disraeli has .been remembered more videly, lastingly, respectfully, and affec- ionately than has any other statesman. Twenty years after his death, he occupied a greater place in the memories of the Eng lish people than Peel or Palmerston did five years after their death. [See Encyclopedia Britannica.'] 2 . Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Bakst, David Ri cardo, Disraeli, Stahl, Rathenau, Michelson, and Einstein are outstanding names of Jews known in the fields of philosophy, music, scenic decorating, statesmanship, and sci ence.—S elected . III. A D ebt of G ratitude Appreciation of the Jew is becoming in the Christian whose entire spiritual heritage has come to him through a Jewish channel. It was through the “seed” of Abraham (the Jewish Messiah), that all the families of the earth were to be blessed. When enjoy ing the spiritual blessings made possible through Christ and Christianity, it behooves us to be mindful of the words of the Master when-He said: “Salvation is of the Jews.” J. MacDonald Webster in speaking on “Our Debt to Israel,” said: “It would be hard to dissociate the gospel from the Jew even on the part of those who never saw a Jew in their lives. Its language is Jew ish. It was Jews who bore the first brunt of heathen opposition to it, and it was the martyrdom of Jews that at last obtained its supremacy and triumph in the civilized world. The Christian gospel is saturated with what is Jewish. “Does all this not create an obligation of gratitude? Is it possible to accept all that the gospel brings and callously leave beyond ts benefits those who perfected it?” — J am es A . V aus .
DECEMBER 20, 1936 “THE CHRISTMAS CAROL”
P roverbs 14:21; P salm 41:1 Meditation on the Lesson
From the beginning of God’s dealings with His chosen people, Israel, “the poor” were cared for and commandments were given concerning them. “And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God” (Lev. 19:10). “If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth” (Deut. 15:7, 8), Throughout the Scriptures we find the same compassionate, tender attitude toward “the poor.” The Book of Psalms, from which one of the texts of this lesson is taken, is teeming with admonitions and precepts concerning the poor. In the Gos pels, we see the Lord’s tenderness toward those who are needy: “The poor have the gospel preached to them” (Matt. 11:5); “But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind” (Lk. 14:13). In the wonderful portion, “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich” (2 Cor. 8:9), we have a glimpse into the heart of the Lord, and catch a vision of His redeeming love stoop ing to our level, lifting us up to His. O matchless grace! O' ineffable love! He, the Divine Son, has left us the sub lime example and pattern of how “the poor” should be treated. “Blessed is he that con- sidereth the poor” (Psa. 41:1). Are we like Him ? Shall we not go farther than ministering only to material needs? The Lord Jesus showed pity toward a world of men and women whose souls were lost and whose spirits were crushed with sin and grief. Let us not make the distinction that labels material succor as the only “practical” Christianity. Is it not a case of “These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone” ? We should let our giving be truly in the name of Jesus as we ap- ,proach the needy with the love and the gospel message that embraces all of their need. God’s promises are sure. Both of the texts are provisional promises.. Let us obey them and claim the promises. Charles Dickens understood the joy that is the result of unselfish giving, and he wrote the classic, The Christmas Carol. Many a heart has been softened and made tender from contemplating its pages. May our Christmas observance be pleasing to the King! Helps for the Leader I. G iving “Go break to the needy sweet charity’s bread, For giving is living,” the angel said;
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