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RIGHT LIVING.
One of the Many Things Which Chris
tians Ought to Do.
Communicated

We have list of these things in Ro-
mans, the 18th chapter. The first Of the
list Is, "Let love be without dissimula-
tion or Hypocrisy" And II we only
have our hearts filled with love, this
will lead us to do the other things
spoken Of in the chapter. The apostle
Paul says: love is the fulfilling of
the law" meaning that love is the iee!-
ing that will lead us to do all that the
law commands US to do "Distributine
to the necessity of saints. given to hos
pttality." SAINTS means Christians,
their necessity means the things they
have need of. Distributing means
sharing with them such things as we
have. Hospitality means kindness
shown to strangers, a1d so we are
taught that we should be willing to
share with others such things as we
have-when we find that they are in
need of them and especially that we
should be kind to strangers. If we are
true Christians then this is the way
we will feel and this is the kind of life
we will try to live. There is a good
deal said in the Bible about hospitality
or the kindness we should do to others,
whether they are friends or strangers.
a one place we are commanded to
use hospitality one to another with
ont grudging." In another we are
told, "Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers, for thereby some have en-
tertained angels unawares." This is
supposed to refer to the patriarch
Abraham. In the times when the Bi-
BILE was written the people were very
hospitable or kind to strangers. Abra-
ham was like them in this respect. We
have very interesting example of
this in the 18th chapter of Genesis,
where we read how Abraham when
| alone, sitting in the door of his tent in
| the heat OF the day, saw three men
coming towards him. They were
strangers and he had no idea who they
were, but he went out and invited
them to come into his tent and stop
and rest and have something to eat.
Then he had water brought for them
| to wash their feet, which is very re-
freshing thing in that warm country.
| He ordered provision to be prepared
for them too. One OF these travellers
| turned out to be the Son of God, our
Savior, and the others were two an
| gels, all in the form of men. They
| were on their way to the wicked cities
OF Sodom and Gomorrah, which they
were going to destroy and they hadstop-
ped on purpose to tell a Abraham what
they were going 20 do. And so here we
| see nQW~si Graham was not forgetful to
~tntertnin strangers and in doing this
| The people In eastern countries have
very much the same feeling still. They
are given to hospitality. A poor
weaver had loaf of bread given to
him one day in a certain town in Eng
land when he was very hungry. He
afterwards became very rich man.
| But he never forgot the kindness
shown to him that day when he was so
hungry. Before he died he left q sum
OF money in trust for the purpose of
distributing on the anniversary of that
day half penny loaf to every person
in the town and to every person pass
ing, through the town penny loaf.
Ard now to this day out of the money
thus left any traveller passing the
college OF ST. Cross at Wtnchest on
Knocking at the gate and asking for it
has pitcher of ale and small loaf of
bread brought out for his refresh
ment. When Jesus entered our world
he met with no hospitality. "He came
unto his own and his own received him
not" Bethlehem found no room for
Him In the Inn "and yet it is His re
ilgion which teaches us to be given to
hospitality.' Let us learn to be hos
pitable to Jesus by finding room for
him IN our hearts. This Is the best
form in which we can practice hos
pitality for Jesus always brings bless
ing with MIN whenever he comes. We
read in Luke, 24th chapter, about two
OF the disciples who were hospitable to
Jesus. They begged him to stay and
eat with them after their walk to
Emmaus and he made himself known
to them In the breaking OF bread.
Iaccheus was hospitable to Jesus and
took him home to his fouse and Jesus
brought salvation to him that same
day.
Let us be hospitable to stragers and
kind to all