The Archive · 1941

Call to the Clergy

And now, we see ourselves grown up and out in the battles of life as the third picture comes to tell us how we must live and act that we may hear "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world." How simple it reads "I was an hungered and ye gave Me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave Me drink, I was a stranger and ye took Me in, naked and ye clothed Me, I was sick and ye visited Me, I was in prison and ye came unto Me." Here i the call to the clergy to keep before the minds of parents and teachers and all the men and women and children of our Christian congregation what the Christian religion call us to. Do we seriously ask ourselves what it means to be a Christian? And do we ever get back to that night before He died when our Lord described the badge His followers were ever hereafter to wear and to be recognized by? "By this" He says, "shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another," The duty of the clergy is to keep this clear message ringing im the ears of all Chris-n congregations that the voices of the world, the flesh and the devil, which would lure us into selfishness, into forgetfulness of God, into hiding our talents in the earth, in selfish living, grasping at the things of earth, may be overcome by the voice of our Master who says, "A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this Shall all men know that ye are My disciples if ye have love one to another," "Inasmuch as ye have done it unio one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done for you before the foundation of the world."

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