The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-01-11
md sisters to Christ shall live through


and sisters to Christ shall live through
all eternity.
working For Peace.
But | cannot close without showing
! you how the unwritten words of Jesus
! must have affected those who did not
| follow him as they should have follow
ed him. 1t was not all peace and hap
piness in the disciples camp. There
they had their little frictons and jeal-
ousies, and Jesus unwritten words
must have been continually pleading
for peace, peace, peace. Not one word
do we find in the gospels about these
conversations. But those pleadings for
peace must have been uttered.
Turn to the first two verses of the
fourth chapter Of st. John, when,
therefore, the Lord knew how the
Pharisees had heard that Jesus made
and baptized more disciples than John,
though Jesus himself baptized not, but
his disciples" Stop there. / want to
ask you why Jesus himself did not
baptize his new converts, but left it to
his disciples so to do. Jesus did not
p baptize his disciples" wrote a great
commentator, because if he had bap-
tized some Of them it might have made
unhappy divisions among his followers.
Those might have considered them
selves more worthy or honored who
had been baptized by him than those
baptized by the disciples" Don't you
see the force of this Interpretation?
Jesus is practically saying to his dis
ciples: 1--WE must do everything in our
power to keep down the troubled wa
ters of jealousy. We must do every
thing in our power so that we, each
and all of us. shall work in harmony
with each other. Peace, peace! Let
US sacrifice everything in order that
we should work for the glory of God
in peace" Yet we find not one word
of this conversation recorded in the
Scriptures.
The Value of Harmony.
Are our unwritten words pleading
for harmony in Christian work anon
Christ's followers? Are we doing all II
our power to have our homes harmOni
Gus and our churches harmonious an
our different sectarian organizations
working hand in hand for the glory o.
God and not for self? Are we ready t;
sink ourselves for that peace and 70
the glory of Christ? During the dark
est days of the attempt to amalgamate
a lot of petty German principalties in
to one great German empire Prince
Bismarck said to a friend: ooh, that
could live to see the day when all |
these German peoples shall be united |
together in one great purpose to pro
tect and care for each other! l must |
not think of what my enemies may say |
or do. To attain this end | must brave |
all dangers-eXile, even the scaffOld it |
self. What matter if they hang me,
provided the rope with which | am
hanged binds this new Germany firmly |
to the Prussian throneF' Can you
speak like that for your divine King?
Shall your life be spent not only in
social outcasts to the cross,
but in binding all Christians closer and
closer together with the Christs love?
While we dwell on these episodes in
the life of Christ that the evangelists
nave lell uuFeCOTQeu, we Ieel sure IldL
they were very kind and tender and
pure. He could not have acted other
wise. That divine life must have been
consistent throughout, and the parts
that we do not know have been in har-
mony with those we do know So it
should be with u.s. Like Christ, we
nave an unwritten life, or, rather, an
life in the public sense.
And, thank God. that life can become
In infinite power for the saving of
iouls for Jesus Christ. Shall our I'M
written words and deeds be truly con- (
ecrated to the divine Master? oh,
he unwritten life of every mortal {
mani VIII you heed and grasp these ,
opportunities today? .
Let me, then, be always growing, Z
Never, never standing still;
Listening, learning, better knowing I
Thee and thy most blessed will, !
That the Masters eye may trace
Day by day my growth in grace. '
copyright, 1906, by Louis Klopsch.1 '
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