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NOTES on Christian Endeavor By MARY G. GOODNER
FEBRUARY 5, 1939 “ALL ONE BODY WE” E phesians 4:1-7, 11-13 Meditation on the Lesson
BEHIND THE BURDEN By MILDRED ALLEN JEFFERY
“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee" (Psa. 55:22). It is wonderful, surely, to carry your burden With a smile and a shrug that seem gay. While you crush back the heartache and smother your anguish— If you know of no better way. But I've found that no trial, or heart ache, or sorrow Is too great for my Saviour to bear, So I take them and give them to His gracious keeping, And thank Him, and leave them there. And wonder of wonders, the heart that was breaking, The pain that was hurting, the trial Is no longer my burden— but His, and my portion Is gladness, and joy, and a smile. Christian Endeavorers surely should re joice in what they have done in creating real Christian fellowship and friendship through their city, county, and state unions aind conventions. Truly we can unite in singing: “Our Sacrifice is one; Our Priest before the throne, The slain, the risen Son, Redeemer, Lord, alone; Thou who didst raise Him from the dead, Unite Thy people in their Head.” III. M any T rustees In the establishment of one of our great goldsmiths is a vast iron safe with many locks, containing immense treasure. But no one person can open that chest; the keys are in the hands of many trustees, and only by their concurrence can the hidden wealth be made manifest. Thus it is in the natural and in the spiritual world; the wealth of divine blessing can be reached only through the brotherhood of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.— W . L. W atkinson . IV. C hrist ' s C hurch D iagrammed Charles Reade says that on a blank leaf of his grandmother’s Bible was drawn a circle with several radii converging to the center. The central point bore the name of Christ, while on the radii were written the names of different denominations of Chris tians, Underneath the circle were written the words, “The nearer to the center, the nearer to one another,”-— Christian Herald. II. W hat U nites U s
In His great High Priestly prayer as recorded in John 17, our Lord uttered this sublime petition: "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou heist sent me.” Right out of the depths of His heart, in this crucial hour of His life, with the cross less than twenty-four hours away, He prayed: “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one.” Consider for one moment the immensity of that request and statement. He has al ready given His disciples the glory which God gave Him. Can we grasp the mag nitude of this truth? If we could remember that all Christians have His glory, it would be easier to recognize the unity of the body of Christ. The same desire which the Lord Jesus voiced was later given by the Spirit-filled Apostle Paul in our lesson text. He ex horts us to “keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit” (Eph. 4:3, 4). Christ is “the head of the body, the church" (Col. 1:18). The Holy Spirit is never the author of confusion or strife; when there are discord, inharmony, and dissensions, we may rest assured that some of the "body” are not obeying the divine injunctions given in the first two verses of our chapter: “I there fore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation where with ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, lorebearing one another in love.” Oh, that all Christians might so walk! Then truly we would “all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.” Helps for the Leader I. T he I nterdenominational B ell The following incident happened in a small Western town where the people are poor, and where, though there Eire several churches, they frequently borrow each other’s equipment and work together in harmony. One evening a church bell was heard ringing vigorously. The family seat ed around the tea table looked up in sur prise. “What bell is that?” they asked in chorus. No one seemed to know until at last one exclaimed, "Oh, I remember now! That is the Episcopal bell ringing for the Baptist revival that begins at the Presby terian Church tonight." There was no hard feeling there.— S elected .
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