Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-05-11
For Sunday, May Ia, 1916

For Sunday, May Ia, 1916
Lesson Title. ."Lo, We Turn to the
Gentiles."
Lesson Text: Acts 13: 1852.
Memorize vss. as, 46.
Golden Text: "I have set thee for
a light of the Gentiles, That thou
shouldest be for salvation unto the
uttermost part of the earth. Acts
13: AZ.
l.. The World View.
The war has compelled people in
the United States to take wider
world view than ever before. We be-
gan in 1898, during the Spanish
American war. Before that time
there were some millions of our peo-
pie who had the world view. Thev
got it from Jesus Christ, who called
all men everywhere his brothers and
sent his followers to help people. in
all the world.
Our studies in the history of the
early church show how the Jewish
christians were led to broaden their
vision so as to take in the Gentiles.
Something like that has to be done
by every man in every generation.
Most of us are provincials. We are
interested in our own family or town,
less so in our state and nation, and
often very little in folks farther away.
But no man can live unto himself
alone nor can any nation. Weare oblig-
ed to trade with one another. We need
things which other nations possess
and they need what we have, whether
ideals or goods or ideas. Christ and
his teaching have broken down racial
lines wonderfully in the lats nineteen
hundred years. There is yet much to
do. We must have Christ's attitude
toward other races of men. We can
show them sympathy and render them
service. The real christian cannot
help being interested in China and
Japan, in Turkey and Armenia, in all
the nations of the earth.
III. The Man Who Turned Back
The Record tells the interesting fact
about John Mark that he left Paul and
his company and returned to Jeru-
salem. 1t took Mark long time to
overcome the results of that back
ward step. For long time Paul was
opposed to him, yet afterward gave
him another opportunity. That was
brave thing and a good thing for
Paul to do.
Shall we forever condemn man be-
cause he makes one slip? How
would that affect others treatment
of US? Let us give John Mark cred
it because he "came back" 1t show
ed there was real courage and pur-
pose in his character. Some men
spend all their time bemoaning the
fact that they once made mistake
and failed in their opportunity. Let
them take heart and try again. For
every Mark who makes his mistake
there is always a Paul ready to for
give him and help him later. And
God always forgives US when we ask
him and helps US to make new
start.
iii. Jealousy.
Are you jealous?
The Record says that "when the
Jews saw the multitudes they were
filled with jealousy, and contradicted
the things which were spoken by Paul
and blasphemed." The action of the
Jews is often seen in life today. Some
people can never stand it to see others
prosper. Some ministers and church
es are "filled with jealousy" when
other churches draw "the multitudes." :"
Instead of trying to make their own
work better they begin to contradict
and criticize what the successful
churches say and do. There is some
thing of this tendency in all of us.
The success of others either stirs US
to jealously or leads US to humility
and practical imitation of the work
which others do. People with a prac-
tical temperament have big fight on
their hands. Jealousy can ruin homes,
split churches, rend partnerships, al
ienate friends, wreck religion!
Mr.. Moody once told this story:
"There is fable of an eagle which
could outfly another, and the other
didn't like it. The latter saw a
sportsman one day, and said to him:
81 wish you would bring down that
eagle. The sportsman replied that
he would if he only had some feathers
to put into the arrow. So the eagle
pulled one out of his wing. The ar
row was shot, but didn't quite reach
the rival eagle; it was flying too high
The envious eagle pulled out more