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died, and if we then pray that we may have compassion upon them akin to our Lord's, racial barriers will melt away as ice be fore the sun. Helps for the Leader I. H elp from G od ’ s W ord The "Daily Readings” for the week, Daniel 5:13-17; Ruth 1:14-17; Luke 10: 30-37; Acts 10:34-38 [cf. Acts 11:12-15]; Colossians 3:10, 11; Philippians 2:9-11, will be found very helpful in the meeting. Not only do they give concrete cases of ra cial barriers overcome, but they give Scripture for overcoming them. II. C hrist ’ s L ove As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, so love is the livery of Christ. —L atimer . III. "B rother ” One night a Negro was walking along Forty-Second Street In New York, from the railway to the hotel, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier valise. Suddenly a hand took hold of the valise and a pleasant voice said: "Pretty heavy, brother! Sup pose you let me take one. I’m going your way.” The Negro resisted, but finally al lowed the young white man to assist him in carrying his burden, and for several blocks they walked along chatting together like cronies. “And that,” said Booker T. Washington, years afterwards, “was the first time I ever saw Theodore Roosevelt.”— -Onward. IV. C areless P rejudice Many people, in dealing with a person of another race, assume that he possesses all of the bad characteristics that are sup posed to adhere to his race. They form their opinions of him accordingly. “So and so is a Jew, and you know what Jews are like.” "Sam is a Negro, and every one knows that Negroes are all the same." The habit of thus putting people into racial cubbyholes is as vicious as it is un intelligent. Of course it is unchristian. Yet it is a more common form of prejudice than we suppose. Jesus never treated people so. Love will conquer prejudice.— A. Year of Meetings, by International Society of Christian Endeavor. FEBRUARY 19, 1939 LOOKING AT POLITICS THROUGH CHRISTIAN EYES M atthew 5:13-20 Meditation on the Lesson Salt and light! How common, how well- known, how universal, and yet, how necessary! One little girl’s definition of salt was, “It’s what makes your potatoes taste bad without it.” A. C. Dixon tells this story: “A king asked his three daughters how much they loved him. Two of them replied that they loved him better than all the gold and silver in the world. The youngest one said that she loved him better than salt. The king was not pleased with her answer, as he thought salt was not very palatable. But the cook, overhearing the remark, put
Hymns which have helped to bring about genuine Christian fellowship should be sung at the meeting. Examples are: "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord,” "Blest Be the Tie That Binds,” and "The Church’s One Founda tion.” FEBRUARY 12, 1939 HANDS ACROSS RACIAL BARRIERS J ohn 13:35; 15:12-17; A cts 17:24-28 Meditation on the Lesson "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to an other” (John 13:35). Love is fundamental to Christianity. The Christian faith was begotten in love. "God so loved . . . " The Lord Jesus Christ loved a lost world and stooped to save it. He yearns for love, and He commands love for one another among His followers. “Be hold how these Christians love one an other” was spoken of the early disciples. In our text Christ gives what in the eyes of the world is to be the acid test of Chris tian discipleship—the manifestation of true love one for another. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (1 John 4:10, 11). Paul, the apos tle to the Gentiles, was full of love for those of every race, for Christ’s sake and in His power. The love of Christ constrained him to preach the gospel to the Greek, and to the barbarian, both to the wise and the un wise (2 Cor. 5:14; cf. Rom. 1:14). It is necessary to guard against a care-, less use of the popular expression, “the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man,” for the Scriptures place a very defi nite limitation upon God’s Fatherhood. While God is the Creator of all men, He is Father, in the New Testament sense, only of those who have been bom again through receiving the Lord Jesus as Sav iour: “But as many as received him [Jesus Christ], to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12, R.V.). In his great sermon on Mars Hill, Paul emphasized the basic unity of the human race when he said, "God that made the world and all things therein, . . . hath made of one blood [R.V., ‘hath made of one’] all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:24, 26). But Paul knew and preached the still closer interracial unity that there is among Chris tians. He declared that we, who are Chris tians “are all the children of God by iaith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized Into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male or female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:26-28). In our contact with other races we per haps have prejudices to overcome. We may need to remember that pride of race should have no place in the heart of one whom the Lord Jesus has saved from sin. And If we consider the members of these other groups as individuals for whom Christ
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