Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-13
THE LESSON FOR SUNDAY
Importance and Necessity OF Work
ing With Others is Shown.
COOPERATION and CHRISTIANITY
Man to Be a Christian Must Love His
Fellow Man-Must Show His Love
by Practical Work--Eife Of Jesus
Christ While Upon Earth Was
Practical Example.
(By the"Teacher.)

Practical Example.
(By the"Teacher) -
Our lesson for Sunday deals with
the subject of cooperation and the
necessity of all working in harmony
for the promotion Of the Kingdom of
Christ and the good Of mankind. 1t
is great, subject-one of which vol
umes have been written and one Of
which many more volumes are yet to be
written. It is a principle, however.
that Jesus Christ advocated while he
lived upon this earth. 1t is 4 prin-
ciple that has been brought into prac-
tice in order to achieve all the great
est undertakings that the world has
known.
The Scripture Lesson
We find the Scripture lesson for Sun
day as recorded in Cor 12:427; John
6:1-14. Printed here is Cor. 12:14-27:
II. For the body is not one member,
but many.
Is. If the foot shall, say, because
am not the hand I am not Of the body;
it is not therefore not Of the body.
l6. And if the ear shall say, Be-
cause am not the eye, I am not Of the
body; it Is not therefore not of: the
body. e.. -. = -:
II. If the whole body:.were an eye,
where were the hearing where were
the smelling?. ....
IS. But now hath God set the mem
.bers each one OF them in the body,
even as it pleased him.
49, And if they were%all one mem
ber, where were the; bodE ;..
90. But now they are as members,
but one body. r.
u. And the eye cannot say to the
hand, I have no need OF thee or again
the head to the feet, have no need
of you.
90. Nay, much rather. those men,
bers of the body which seem to be
more feeble are necessary:
23 And those parts Of the body
which we think to be less honorable,
upon these we bestow more, abundant
honor; and our uncomely parts have
more abundant comeliness;
"a. Whereas Our comely parts have
no need; but God tempered the body
together, giving more abundant honor
to that part which lacked;
25. That there should be no schism
in the body; but that the members
should have the same care for one an
other.
26. And whether one member suffer-
eth, all the members suffer with It; or
one member is honored,; all the men,
bers rejoice with it.
81. Now ye are the body. Of Christ,
and severally members thereof.
What a sermon-nay what COM.
-mand, is every line of the Scripture we
have just read my friends, to us all to
live in peace and unity with one an.
other. How plainly it shows that
since the different parts of the body
have their respective functions to per-
form, we as parts Of the body Of
Christ have our work to. perform.
Work for All.
There is work for all lof us on this
earth. All of us can't do the same kind
Of work. 1t is we'll that we cannot.
Some Of us are fitted to do one thing.
Some another All work--honest work
is noble and valuable. 1t is as neces-
sary that one man sweep the streets
and that another aplows and another
make yarns and that others engage in
the various occupations.
With a world in turmoil this is no
time for petty chickering's and quarrels
and jealousies. The motto of c''er!
man and woman should be, "G serve"
Spirit of Co. operation.
heard the members Of a country
church the other day discussing plans
for adding Sunday school rooms TO
their church. One talked Of furnish
ing labor; another stated that ne could
furnish certain materials and labor;
another said that he could furnish the
shingles. There was no thought OF
the amount that each would furnish
although he who could furnish but lit
tie realized that the other man was
doing more. The big idea was to
Build the Sunday school rooms. They
will be built just as surely as the sun
shines. That kind of spirit will build
anything. II is the spirit that has
built empires. 1t is the spirit that will
build other empires. 1t is the spirit
that is necessary to che accomplish
ment OF anything and everything.
There is no question, my friends.
that We have need of one another in
almost all Of our undertakings. What
ever tends to exalt the character and
purify the aims Of any one class in
society is sure in q greater or less de-
gree to affect every other. AS the poet
Pope in his Essay on Man" has it:
"As God has framed Il whole the whole
to bless,
Our mutual wants build mutual hap
piness,
Thus God and nature linked the gen.
eral fr:lme.
And bade self-love and social bc the
same"
Building of Solonon's Temple.
Perhaps the most wonderful struc-
trrc-the most complete ever erected
was the temple of King Solomon. ite
did not build it with the resources OF
his own country alone. He did not
build it with the aid Of his own pco-
pic. He sent out Of his own country
to Hiram Of Tyre who sent his work.
mon into the great forests OF Leban-
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