Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-13
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For Dec 16-Acts 1928; Rom. $780,; Eph SILL.
BY DR. MARION MICH. HULL

! hidden secret that new organism
was to be formed composed of those
| from every people whom God had
chosen.
| Have we learned that lesson YETI
| Do we not find that in the hearts OF
some at least there Is just as much
prejudice against the other races,
whose skins differ from ours, coming
! into the privileges of the CHRISTIAN
! church as those bigoted narrow mind
! ed Jews had when Paul began pro
! claiming this mystery that has been
| revealed to him? Honest now, DO
you not find that you are more in
terested In getting the message over
| to some near relative, or nelghbor,
or countryman than you are to have
some Chinaman, or Jap, or Korean
hear it? When will our hearts expand
| enough to take in the whole wide
world regardless of color or cline or
condition?
The Motive
! There is a curious attitude taken
by some who say: o. yes, believe
| in giving the gospel to everybody;
| but 1 am in favor of finishing the
| job at home before tackling anything
| outside" Well, might such an one, IL
| a merchant, say: Il want to sell my
goods all over the country and world,
but I don't believe in trying to sell
/ a bill of goods anywhere else until
I have sold every merchant In my
home city and have cultivated them
all as regular customers.
We mentioned last week a ire
mendous motive for the world wide
proclamation OF the gospel, and it
is not strange that those who ap.
preciate fully the truth revealed in
this hidden gospel are as a rule more
tremendously interested in it than
are others who either do not know
this truth or reject 1t. In the mind
of God there rested the knowledge
that the chosen people, the Jews,
would not accept the Son of God as
King and their Messiah when He of
fered Himself to them as an humble
servant of Jehovah; therefore pro-
vision was made in His mind for
another organism, the body of Christ,
| to be formed which should make
Him known unto the ends of the
earth, and when that body had been
made complete-or to change the
| figure-when the bride of Christ
shall have been made ready the bride
groom should return. At His second
coming one of the things that would
| result would be recognition by His
people Israel Of the mistake they had
| made and an acceptance by them as
| a nation of Him as their long-look-
ed for Messiah and King One of
their prophets, Zechariah, had said:
There shall be a fountain opened by
the house of David--and> they shall
look upon Him whom they pierced
and shall mourn for Him as for an
only son." Zechariah did not know
anything Of the period Of time that
was to elapse between His first and
second coming; but the great Jew,
Paul, to whom God made known his
hidden secret that had been in His
mind all along, explained 1t most
clearly in the 9th, 10th and 18th.
| chapters Of his letter to the Romans.
GOD had given great blessings to the
Jews; because of their rejection of
Jesus the Christ, He had set them
| ASIDE for time, and was now form.
ing new organism out of Jew and
GehtlIe irrespective of place or race:
When this was complete, He would
oeal directly with Israel again
AL the great convention at Je.
rusalem, the first Christian conven.
tlon ever held and recorded in Acts
TO- James, the president, announced
tnelr decision in these words:
simeon hath declared how God at
the tlrst did visit the Gentiles to take
OUT OF them a people for His name
ana TO this agree the words of the
prophets; as it is written, After this
VIII return and build again the
tabernacle Of David which is fallen
| doWn-that the residue of men might
see after the Lord, and all the Cen
tlies upon whom my name is called,
sdieh the Lord, who death all these
| things"
| Notice here the program-fD to
visit the heather to take out of
them; 81 after this Christ's return:
(7) the restoration Of Israel; "a the
residue (of Israeli to seek after the
Lord; 20 and all the heather.
our task now is to preach the
gospel to every creature that the
Holy Spirit may take out of the Cen.
tiles people for His name, and thus
| TO bring the King back. If there
IS a nook or Granny where Jesus
Is not known, there is the place to
make Him known. If there is a
man or woman, boy or girl, wheths
er yellow, black, red, brown, or
white, who does not know the sin
ner's only Savior, that is the one
we must reach with the good news.
For the gospel of Christ-not eugen-
les or enthenics nor social service
nor western civilization, nor educa.
tlon-the gospel of Christ Is the
power OF God unto salvation to every
one that believeth. Whatever Jesus
Christ means to you, you are re.
sponsible for making Him known
that far for everybody.