The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1937-05-14
ALONG ELMO STREET

that was long time ago. Yes
God must have been alone-yet,
lonely and he said, Let there be
light.
Would forty million years be
anything like reasonable calcul
alton of time since God said Let
there be ightT However, it isl
long way back to that hour Of
darkness. But isn't it true that
there is too much darkness yet.
Prejudice and human hatred
from black night. But let us go
on. To whom did God speak
when he said LET there be light
inasmuch as he was alone? He
was speaking to the Word and
Time. And there was light, the
sun, moon and stars. Time under
the command of God works slow
ly but surely. Time is still on
the job with the word trying to
complete the job of Let there be
light. The sun, moon and stars
are not the light of the soul-its
the word to help in the task of
making light. God, away back
yonder, turned to the word and
to time and said LET us make
man." Then the word and time
cut out mans form from the i'm
age of God, when God was rest
ing on the first sabbath, think
ing of man, he formed man of
the dust of the ground and brea
thed into his nostrils the breath
of life and man became a living
soul. yet he is still in the dark.
The word and time, while God
looks on, are trying to make, the
becoming light. AS the word
holds up the new light he cries
Il am the way" follow me.
This brings me to a scene. The
other day jew, of the people
who have been SO cruelty wrong
ed holds a mortgage on church
here in Greensboro. This parti-
cular church has been abused by
some of its officers in the other
years. The Nor, : Debt has
been neglected and - has the
physical plant. For several years
little or nothing % the debt on
the mortgage. So, listen, want
you, somebody tried to buy the
church and take il away from its
owners of $50 called Christian"
but the Jew would not consent to
any injury to the church. Isn't
this a bit of light? Isn't the
world in need of light about the
Jews? l think so. There were
Jews in mind when he said Love
We also one another as I have
loved YOU"
Don't the word say that Those
who are not against us are for
u.s." Then why do so many peo-
pie condemn, and lie about the
Jews. For my part, have globe
trotted much, nd in every
part of the world where l have
been, I have had to do with Jew
merchants and business and pro
fessional Jews. And the light
which 1 hold up for them is that
the world is wrong in any them
fessional Jews. And the light
which I hold up for them is that
the world is wrong in any un-
friendly attituded against the
! Jews. Evil suspicion is, some
times, a lie, and is harmful, al
ways.
l do not believe that the Bible
sanctions the present day attit-
udes against the Jews-the false
light of the Gentiles, having put
Christ to death and claiming it
to this day upon the Jews. Is
that light to do that way against
the Jews? Who wrote it, truth
crushed to earth shall rise again
meaning the history of Christ.
He was an American. Time has
his poem.
Our Sunday school folk play
up big pictures in Sunday school
lessons that are against Jews in
the "Stoning of Steven"
I suspect anybody else would
be called them the ugly names
that Steven called those people
who stoned him. A boy here in
North Carolina killed his father
for calling him bad names. And
too, there is no Gospel in preach
ing when you abuse people-the
spirit will not accept it. Gospel
is Gods truth. So, if l had to
make light for the world and to
help make man. I would urge
the world not to think harshly of |
the Jewish people. There would
be more light and better people
if we would serve the purpose of
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