Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-25
Sunday School Lesson
Bu DR.. Marion McH. Hull

! and actions. and they were not disposed
| to act i'm any other way.
| They called all the multitude together
! and said We are so busy in the ministry
| Of the Word and in prayer that we are
/ not able to do that and look after the
! distribution Of the food. Choose seven
men to look after this job. NOu must
| get men who are so honest that every
! body Will recognize it. You must have
men who are wise and tactful, VINO are
economical, who are gifted with wisdom,
! and the third qualification that they
must have is-and this is above all 9TH
! ers-they must be full of the Holy
| Spirit.
Seven men were therefore chosen. 1t
s remarkable that even though the Pal
| estinian Jews were i'm the majority ev-
| cry man Of the seven was Hellenist.
| DO YOU comprehend what that means:
| They were so guided by love that they
were willing to abrosate any authority
which they might have as a majority
and turn over to the cOmplainers. or the
| body from which the complaint came,
! the whole distribution. They ha dsuch
! confidence in their brethren, and such
! love for Christ, that they We're willing
| to let the minority distribute the food.
They went, the second mic; they turned
!, the other cheek; they silence all criti-
cisms. and prevented any division of the
church.
HOW IT WORKED OUT.
We said that Satan lost his fight. Not
only did he disrupt tao church as he
had hoped, but as a result Of his insinu-
ating suggestion the church became
stronger. Seven new men al. least were
brought out into places of responsible
/ ~, were given something definite to do
Seven new workers were inducted into
Office and from them came at least two
preachers of marvellous power. one Of
these became the first Christian martyr,
and as a result of mis- work and life
and death, Paul was converted and be
came the greatest force for righteous
ness and the greatest enemy of the devil
since the days Of Christi As the result
OF the others work, Samaria was turned
to Christ; Philip became one of the
greatest evangelists of his day.
These are the suggestions which
come from the study Of this incident
First. it is impossible for Satan to over
come Gods plans. Every one of his at
tempts' failed. If God makes the wrath
OF man to praise Him, lie made the
wrath OF Satan also to praise Him. The
love of tho brethren showed itself
stronger than it could otherwise have
done had il not been put 10 the test.
Second the neglect OF the Grccian
widows was purely Unintentional. Most
of the fuses that people have, if they
were boiled down to their essence, would
prove to have started with some uHiu-
territorial act of one of them. You feel
aEgriCved that YOU. friend did So ana
so. You Hursed your grief until final
~ you become angry. and fuss resulted.
For this reason Christ told us that il we
have aught against our neighbOr 90 10
him and tell him alone. He knew that
in practically every instance a clear un
Outstanding between YOU and your
friend would show the fact that the
slight or the act was unintentional. and
the MISUNDERSTANDING and hard feel
ings would be avoided. .3s-
Third, the best way 20 grow is to dc.
If you are q teacher the best way to de-
velop your class in Bible study is to give
them some definite subject to work out
and present at the next meeting of the
class. The marvellous growth of the
Sunday school i'm the past ten years has
been due to the organization of Bible
classes. and organization simply means
this-each member is given something
to do. There is lots of latent material
i'm every Sunday school. in every church,
i'm every class. Find job for everyone
give each one something to do. and their
own development and the development
of the organization will be the result