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like our Saviour Jesus did.
The lesson passage is found u
Acts 8:26-39, and is the story O
Philip, leaving his very successful
evangelistic campaign in Samari,
to follow the lead Of the Holy Spiri
into the way that goeth down from
Jerusalem unto GAIA, which is DIES
ert. There he found a man in search
Of God, and through his witness the
man was saved.
THE STORY OF JESUS
THIS mar was not OF Philips
L rae He was an Ethiopian. Blu,
he was a man.. And God loves every
man of every race and of every
condition of life. Jesus never did
meet an unimportant person, mol
will any true follower of his. jesus
said, "As the Father has sent Me,
even so send / you," John 1921.
This man was reading in the
Book Of Isaiah, where the prophet
was foretelling how Jesus would
suffer for the sins Of the whole
world. He could not understand
the wonderful words. And the
Spirit directed Philip to 60 and
Join himself to the eunuch. Philip
ran to the chariot in which the
rich man rode, asking, under.
standest thou what thou readest?"
He was quick to give his witness.
That Is the first lessen OF the
lesson.
AND THE MAN LISTENED
WHEN we faithfully obey the
w Holy Spirit, he enables us to
effectively witness for Jesus. We
cannot be effective witnesses If we
rely upon our own wisdom and our
own judgment. The boy in you
street who does not know Jesus will
listen to your story if you go in the
same glad obedience to the com.
mand of the Spirit of God as did
Philip.
A lad told me this story. He had
a neighbor who had never been to
Sunday school, and he wanted to
enlist this friend. He thought
about ii seriously. But he was not
quite sure of himself. And then he
prayed, asking God to direct him.
The next day the boy asked him,
"What r you doing Sunday
morning." With this opening the
lad invited his neighbor to come
along with him, and the result
was that the little neighbor, of an
other race, accepted Christ as his
Saviour and is today a regular
attendant at church and Sunday
school.
TO WHOM SHALL WE WITNESS4
THE question now emerges, To
i whom shall we bear this wit.
ness? We cannot all go as mission
aries, as did DR.. Schweitzer. Most
Of u must remain at home and
carry or the work OF our everyday
pursuits of life.
But every Christian can wit
ness. First, to these Immediately
about us. In every community in
our beloved country are people
who DO not know Jesus Christ as
Saviour and Lord. We can witness
to them. not to all of them, but to
some OF them, perhaps to one Of
them. And I would remind you
that If you miss that particular
person to whom you may be di.
rected by the Holy Spirit, he or
she may never know about the
Saviour's love.
Second, we can share in the send
ing of the missionaries to earth's
remotest bounds, through our gifts.
I delight to think that ! am in part
nership with many great men and
women or foreign fields, through
my gifts and through my prayers.
Third, we can witness through
personal correspondence with peo-
pie in other lands. The present
far-reaching media of relief for
stricken peoples of the world af.
fords a wonderful opportunity for
this very witness. Ask your pastor
for the name of some person your
age In one of the lands to which
your church is sending relief, and
write that person a letter, telling
Of your joy in serving God.
The eunuch went on his way re-
joicing. Whyf Because Philip ha6
taught him the way of salvation. He
had been used as an effective wit.
ness in leading a man of another
rae to experience the peace that
passeth all understanding.
And Jesus is saying to US today
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