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CLEAVES TEMPLE CME
CHURCH
25th and Decatur St9.
R®v. E. V. Wade, Pastor
Marie Hudg®n9, Reporter
The Cleaves Temple Sunday
school, Sunday, Jan. 11, under the
leadership of Mrs. Elsie Lewis,
superintendent, was well attend
ed. The Rev. C. P. Rains delivered
the morning sermon. His theme
was "Don’t Give Up.” The even
ing service was delivered by the
Rev. Afford. On Sunday, Jan. 19,
the Cleaves Temple church will
conduct the Union services at St.
Johns AME church, 2nd and
Willis av. The Rev. C. P. Rains
will deliver his morning service
Sunday, Jan. 19 using the theme
“The Christian Race.” The text
of the Union service, Sunday,
Jan. 19 is "Go out and have a
good time.’’
ST. JOHN AME CHURCH
22nd and Willis Aye.
Rev. E. B. Childress
Mason Devereaux Jr., Reporter
“A man should preach, pray,
work and sing in the service of
God the Father like himself and
not like some one else. All can’t
be the captain of the ship; some
must be the crew. You don’t have
to have a particular endowment
to walk with God, but if you do
you must walk without stain.”
Thoughts from our pastor. Rev.
Childress’ sermon Sunday, Jan.
12 at 11:00 a. m. Subject, “Song
of Silent.” He chose his thought
giving Christian message from
Luke 19, chapter 36 to 40 verse.
Convert Sister Amelia Orduna
from St. Benedict church of Oma
ha.
Coming to St. John’s from Eben
ezer AME church of Charleston,
South Carolina to join hands. Sis
ter Irene Mackie. Renewing her
vows, Sister Betty Mae Hensely.
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Visitors: Mrs. Bernie Buford of
Omaha, Mrs. Sal Parker of Oma
ha, Mrs. Christine Patten, “Stew
ardess at St. James AME church
of Newark, N. J.; James A. John
son of Chicago, Illinois, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Bronson of Omaha, Svy
heon Meehio of Omaha.
* * *
The Progressive 24 presenta
tion of St. John's Choir in recital
is all set for Monday evening, Feb.
17 at 8:15 p. m. Patrons tickets
are now avanaDie tor mis com
ing auspicious affair. There will
be a host of breath-taking spirit
ual numbers so you don’t want to
miss out on this rare and enter
taining musical treat. Be among
the* first to purchase your ticket
early in order that you might not
miss one moment of this festival
of music and religious singing.
Mrs. Pearl Gibson, our very able
and capable choir directress will
wave the magic baton on this
evening assisted by the pianist
Mrs. Otis Jamerison, a ful orches
tra. and St. John's entire choir.
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Sunday, January 19 will find
our own Junior Choir under the
direction of Mrs. Childress in the
choir loft. Our pastor. Rev. Chil
dress will be in his usual form
bringing to the congregation an
other of his great inspirational
messages of the day at 11:00 a.
m. services.
The Union service will begin at
7:30 p. m. at St. John’s with
Cleaves Temples new pastor, Rev.
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Bray, delivering the Union mes
sage. His choir will bring the spi
ritual music for the evening.
Come out to these Fellowship
meetings that are filled with en
lightment of the work of our Fa
ther and His Son, Jesus Christ.
Be seeing you. Where ? at the
Union services. Time? 7:30 p. m.
Place? St. John’s, 22nd and Wilis
av., Sunday, Jan. 19.
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The Stewards, Stewardess, Trus
tees, Pastor and Wife, and the
members of St. John’s sincerely
thank the Minute Men and Wo
men’s Auxiliary for the annual
contribution to our Building Fund
Sunday. Jan. 12.
It is organizations such as these
that have dedicated themselves to
the helping build a bigger, better
and greater St. John’s in Omaha
for our children, our community,
our city, our God spiritually and
financially.
Let us as individuals examine
ourselves to see whether we are
also doing our part in this great
building program. Have I? And
Am I? as an individual member
of St. John’s paying to this fund
I by placing on the table or in my
! envelop «ach Sunday $1.00 or
I more according to my God-given
ability. That which you are in
vesting in God’s program is sav
ed, and that which you spend on
thrills and frills is lost forever.
Invest in your God’s great pro
gram today the building of St.
John’s in Omaha, for tomorrow
may never come.
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Rev. E. B. Childress delivered
the second Union message at
ion Baptist church, 22nd and
Grant st. Sunday, Jan. 13 at 8
p. m. The Watchmen of St. John’s
Chorus under the direction of
Bro. H. L. Preston sang.
Rev. Childress’ message, “The
| Fugitive,’’ was so powerful in de
[ livery and thought it reverted
i throughout the four corners of
j the auditorium His text was Gen
; esis 10 verse, 28 chapter. Several
| thoughts for the sermon were as
follows: "If a man has been en
dowed with a God-given talent, he
cannot continue to withhold that
talent with impunity toward God,
A man may run ever so far or do
ever so wrong to his fellow man.
but if he comes in contact with
God he is a changed man, and he
will be willing to give his wellow
man a square deal, on One of the
greatest problems facing the
church laymen today is the sav
ing of men and women who are I
fugitives from the Love of God. I
♦ * *
Let us pray for the sick through
out the week wherever they may
be or whoever they may be.
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Mrs. Roxie Nails, one of our
Stewardess thanks the officers
and members of the church for
the many cards of condolence' and
heartwarm sympathy extended
her and family in the passing of
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles
Thompson of Oklahoma City. Okla.
* * *
Bro. Harris, superintendent of
our Sunday school continues to
send out an S.O.S. for additional
Sunday school teachers for our ex
panding Sunday school program.
* * *
It makes our hearts grow warm
with thanksgiving to God, the
Father and we ask him to bestow
many blessings of good cheer up
on Rev. and Mrs. William Cun
ningham and their assistants in
taking over the Allen Christian
Endeavor. Young people you are
invited to attend each Sunday ev
ening at 6 p. m.
* * *
Mothers send your children to’
Sunday school every Sunday morn
ing at 9:30 a. m. Attend our
morning services at 11:00 a. m.
Union services at 7:30 p. m. Visit
ors and friends are always wel
come at St. John’s, the friendly
church, at 22nd and Willis av.
Come anw worship with us won’t
you? .
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Our Fall Special LOW PRICED CHILDREN’S
DESKS
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A Hearty Thank You
We the family of James E. Seay, would like per*
son ally to thank the community and friends for their
help and kindness during the time of our misfortune.
We'd like also to thank the Ministers who offered
their services, and all of those who aided in making it
as comforting as possible.
Gratefully Yours, '
Mr. and Mrs. James Seay, Sr.
and Sisters of James,
, Mrs. James E. Seay, Jr. ,
and daughter
CLAIR METHODIST CHURCH
22nd and Miami Sts.
Rev. C. C. R^nolds, Pastor
Services were well attended last
Sunday. The pastor delivered the
sermon from Exodus 32:32, his
theme “A Steward of People'.”
This was another sermon of a
series on Stewardship.
Mrs. Geraldine Melford gave
the Stewardship emphasis just be
fore the sermon. Several visitors
were present.
Madam Irene West of Detroit,
Mich, rendered a program of spi
ritual songs at the evening service
A very appreciative congregation
heard this fine service of song.
Rev. Reynolds was called to
Lincoln this past Wednesday to
preach the funeral of James
Clinch, killed in Germany while
in occupational duty. He is the
son of Jean Stevenson and unit
ed with the Newman Methodist
church under the pastorate of
Rev. Reynolds.
This coming Sunday morning,
Jan. -9, Rev. Reynolds will use as
his sermon theme, “Every Man’s
Work a Calling from God.” A
hearty welcome awaits you at all
times to the services at Clair
church, the church where friends
meet friends. Sunday night Rev.
Reynolds will use as his sermon
theme. “The Kingdom of God Is
Joy.”
Rev. Reynolds and his choir will
have charge of services at Calvary
Bafftist church. Rev. Gates, pastor,
in Council Bluffs this Sunday
afternoon.
The Week
By H. W. SMITH
Two children perished in a fire
in Grand Rapids, Mich. Sunday,
Jan. 12 while the mother was re
strained from entering the auto
trailer that they lived in.
A 15 year old boy was down in
the Mississippi river on Sunday.
Jan. 12 as the ice broke at La
Crosse, Wis.
The National Lawyers Guild of
Washington, D. C. flayed the
John L. Lewis ruling of the case
l-hat was to be renewed, Tuesday,
Jan. 14.
Mrs. Aurta Burry was killed
Sunday. Jan. 12 in Shelton. Nebr.
when the car she was driving
skidded on the slippery highway.
Chicago police arrested an ex
convict on Jan. 2 for murder. He
also admitted to another holdup
murder in November.
One person was killed and sev
eral others severely burned Sun
day, Jan. 12, in a fire in San
Francisco. Calif. The fire swept
a business and residential block.
Fire destroyed the Athletic gym
nasium of the Syracuse, N. Y. uni
versity on Sunday, Jan. 12. The
building and its contents were
lost. The cost of the building 30
years ago was $300,000. It will
cose two million' dollars to re
place it.
House wreckers in St. Louis will
spare the home of Hot Dogs. The
building was 177 years old. Begin
ning in 1870, the first floor was
used as a sausage factory.
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The Waiters Column
By H. W. Smith
R. R. Boys serving with a
smile on wheels.
Omaha Club waiters with Earl
Jones topping the service at all
times
Waiters at the Hill Hotel very
much out in front on quick serv
ice.
! Blackstone Hotel waiters quick
stepping on fine service in the
[New Year.
Fontenelle Hotel waiters with
waiter Jones improving on the ser
vice from all angles and on the
job with a smile.
Paxton Hotel head waiter and
quick stepping crew opened the
new year by using many up and
go steps.
Brother John Evans, the very
fine pioneer of the roast beef
knights, holding his own in a very
fine way . ,
Mr. Frank Hughes of the High
land Club, going good at all time.
Read the Omaha Guide for all
the news and current events of
race.
Theodore Thomas, one of the
boys from the slow train state of
Ark., has crashed the front page.
The muisician head waiter and
the wide awake crew at the Cham
ber of Commerce are always on
the rapid fire move.
Mr. Streamlined James Robin
son of the U. P. dining car serv
ice, is a headliner at all times.
Mr. James Ward, the top man
at the OAC with Capt. Vaughn,
Capt. Mitchell are out in front.
CHURCH BAN ON CLASS
DISTINCTION URGED
In a 70-page document prepared 1
for the annual meeting of the
Home Missions Council of North
America. A special committee of
Protestant churchmen insisted
that the Christian church erease
all racial segregation and discri
mination if the church is to cham
pion “human rights.”
Terming the problem of group
i and race relations “one of the
greater social and ethical issues
of our day,” Home Missions in
the United States and Canada
were urged to list as imperative in
their development, the following
considerations :
1. Full church influence to be
exerted to secure the eradication
of racial segregation and discri
mination whether imposed by law
or by custom.
2. Reexamination of now or
ganized religious or missionary
enterprises with a view of remov
ing racial and discriminatory bar- (
riers. i
3. Promotion of interracial ac
tivities and promotion of mutual
understanding an'd good will
among all races and groups.
ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF
NEBRASKA T-B 1946
SCHOOL PRESS CONTEST
Winners of the 1946 Scnool
Press Project Contest, sponsored
by the Nebraska Tuberculosis As
sociation, have been announced Dy
the judges
The winners are: First prize,
Violet Green, McGrew High school,
McGrew, Nebraska; second prize,
Shirley Ellenberger, Tekamah
High school. Tekamah, Nebraska;
third prize, Bette Schulty, Otoe
High school, Otoe, Nebraska.
All three of the winners will re
ceive a twenty-five dollar United
States Savings Bond. Their school,
in addition, will receive $50, $30,
and $20, respectively, to be used
for school newspaper equipment.
The contest, officials of the Ne
braska Tuberculosis Association
said, was open to students of all
Nebraska High schools. A notice
and copy of the rules governing
the contest was sent to every high
school principal in Nebraska.
Themes of the entries were:
“How Christmas Seals Are Usea
to Improve the Health of My
Community” and “Why Nations
Should Work Together for Tuber
culous Control." Entries could be
in the form of news stories, fea
ture stories, editorials or cartoons.
The three top winners were all
feature stories.
The judges were Dr. Ralph War
dle. Associate Professor of Eng
lish Literature, University of Oma
ha; Soren Munkhof, Professor of
Journalism at Creighton Univer
sity and News Director of Radio
Station WOW; and Dr. E. A. Ro
gers of Lincoln, Director of the
Tuberculosis Control Division, Ne
braska State Department ot
Health.
The three winning entries, Ne
braska Tuberculosis Association
officials said, will be sent together
with six runners-up, to the of
fices of the National Tuberculosis
Association, in New York City,
for national consideration from
among entries submitted by all
48 states.
The School Press Project Con
test is sponsored nationally by the
National Tuberculosis Association
and the Columbia Scholatic Press.
The new M-74 fine bomba which I
were dropped by almost 500 Super
forts on Yokohama, practically
ooze synthetic lava. An American
chemical-warfare oficer says mak*
ing them is like baking a cake;
They contain various ingredients
that are mixed with jellied gaso
line.
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MY WAY
(BY LAWRENCE P, LEWIS)
MARCH OF DIMES
It is almost an impossibility for
the average laboring man to be
able to withstand the complete
cost of cure of poliomyelitis. This
dreaded disease strikes all class
es, all creeds, and all colors. And
strikes when most unexpected.
Today my home, tomorrow yours,
and the next day, somebody else
may feel its sudden attack.
There has not as yet been dis
covered any preventative. There is
not any vaccine or innoculation
that one can take to ward off the
disease. We are at the mercy of
the elements.
Medical men and women have
been able to cure many cases of
poliomyelitis. The cost of treat
ments received, often running into
a period of years, is often many
hundreds of dollars and some
times many thousands of dollars.
How many of us today can afford
such a price for the treatment for
our family, or ourselves?
Our late President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, was a sufferer and a
victim of Poliomyelitis. Through
his leadership the March of Dimes
began, giving millions of dollars a
year to the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis. It is up to
the living to continue this great
work. Not just to insure adequate
medical treatment for others, but
for ourselves. We know not the
day or the hour.
Everytime I picked up a paper
this fall I would read about the
terror it was bringing to the many
large cities of the United States. I
read about the many persons,
young and old, that were being ad
mitted to our hospitals. About the
schools and the many public ga
thering places being closed in
Minneapolis.
I still did not think much about
it until one morning I opened a
lettw that I had received from
my sister in St. Paul. It read, 1
quote, “The doctor said that the
two youngest children had con
tracted infantile paralysis. They
are so helpless, but I am sure .
that they will be all right. The I
hospitals are so full that they are
going to treat theme here at home.
I’m so glad that they can be here
with me. The little boy, next door.
He was the children’s best play
mate. He died. I still can’t believe
it Why just the other day they
were all playing together in the
front yard.”
The letter went on explaining
| other happenings in St. Paul and
Minneapolis. I hardly read it as
I sat there looking at my little
daughter, playing with her toys,
laughing and talking to her little
doll. Who knows, she might be
next.
JOIN TH. MARCH OF DIMES.
Give and give generously. Polio
myelitis must be conquered. Not
I only for our own benefit, but for
the benefit of all mankind and the
generations that follow. We could
leave no greater gift to our chil
dren than a HEALTHIER AND
STRONGER AMERICA. .
SPORTS BACK THE
“MARCH OF DIMES”
NEW YORK—Sports activities
in support of the March of Dimes
are being directed by sports wri
ters and promoters of national
prominence. Traditionally coop
erative with all important move
ments, the sports world again is
backing the National Foundation
in its annual campaign for funds
to provide care for polio victims
without regard to age, race, creed
or color.
Under the leadership of members
of the Sports Council of the Na
tional Foundation, sports events,
both amateur and professional,
are being conducted to help polio
victims to walk again. The Har
lem Globetrotters and the Ren
aissance basketball teams, the
Senates of the National Bowling
Association, nationally known
athletic organizations and famed
athletes are seeking to set new
records in backing the March of
Dimes.
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Bringing Christ
to the Nations
THE INTERNATIONAL
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ST. LOUIS,, Mo. (Special)—Eight to 10 million Amer
icans are suffering from mental and nervous ailments in
the nation's most neurotic age, Dr. Walter A. Maier of Con
cordia Theological Seminary declared today in an address
over the International Lutheran House. He declared that ac
cording to experts’ estimates, 10 million people in the Unit
ed States will have to be hospitalized foi* these, diseases
^before they die.
Maintaining that the Atlantic Charter’s promise of
freedom from far has become irahical in a day of increas
ed fright, Dr. Maier reported that of the thrre million plus
letters received from listeners to his radio broadcast, the
largest single group came from those beset by phobias,
fears of wrecked homes, destitution, divorce, fear of old
age, disease and bereavement?" especially fear of death and
future judgment.
The antidote to such neuroticism, the radio speaker
maintained, is found in Christ’s Gospel. The Bible-found
ed return to God’s love, he declared, has helped banish fear
more effectively than all prophetic formulas and medical
means together. He quoted Pastor Marrtin Niemoeller s
statement that it was not courage that helped him through
eight years imprisonment in the Nazi camp, but Christ
Answering the objection that the effect of the Christian
religion is theoretical, Dr. Maier cited a practical demonstra
tion of the quieting, constructive influence of Christianity.
He pointed to Bremen, Kansas, which, he maintained, for
thirty years has not witnessed an arrest' or court action.
This town is made up mostly of Lutheron's, who have two
churches and two Christian day schcools, which obviate the
necessity of public schools. Dr. Maier concluded; Let
America follow the Bremen-pattern, and we can effectively
sf('ve our pressing problems." __
STATE-WIDE WRITING
CONTEST SPONSORED BY
LINCOLN (MO.) UNIVERSITY
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.—En
tries in the second annual state
wide Feature Writing contest for
high school juniors and seniors
of Missouri should be postmarked
no later than Feb. 1. according to
an announcement from the Lin
coln University School of Journal
ism which is sponsoring the con
test.
Awards totaling $202 will be
' made to five winners at a speacial
School of Journalism convocation
program March 6, commemorat
ing National Negro Newspaper
T-rppif Prizes of $100. $50 and $25
will go to first, second and third
place contestants, along with two
j honorable mention awards of $15
each.
The contest subject is: “How
■voiith Can Help Puild Lasting
Peace.” Judges will count clear
j nes"! of *TTritin,T. knowledge of the
subject, thoroughness and skill in
thp nrp<-pntntion of the subject in
their ranking of the essays.
Ton n*:nnor- ’n 194fi contest were
Marv *1. Kel'v. senior. Bartlett,
St. Joseph, first, and Ruth L.
Strawn, senior, Bartlett, St. Joseph,
second. Honorable mention prizes
went to Alma Gene Perkins, sen
ior, Hubbard, Sedalia; and Billie
Richmond and Roberta Casterman,
both juniors in the Lincoln Uni
versity Laboratory high school.
Prize money amounting to $105
was awarded at a special School
of Journalism evening convocation
last April 25. The program was
highlighted by a round table dis
cussion. “The Negro Weekly: How
Its News is Written," and featur
ed P. L. Prattis, executive editor,
[Pittsburgh Courier; Dr. Curtis D.
I MacDoueall, professor. Medill
School of Journalism, Northwest
ern university; Edgar T. Rouzeau,
New York Herald-Tribune report
er, and Foster Eaton, assistant
city editor. St. Louis Star-Times,
round table chairman.
All entries in the writing contest
should be addressed to Feature
Writing contest. School of Jour
nalism Lincoln university, Jeffer
son City, Mo.
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which makes it possible for the oil
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LESSON
Bt HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 19
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Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by Intern 'tional
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS INTERVIEWED BY
NICODEMUS
) LESSON TEXT- John 16, 17. '
I MEMORY SELECTION —Except a man
be born again, he canni t see the king
dom of God.»—John 3:3.
) How does one become a Chris-!
tian? This was the question of Nico-;
demus, and it is the question in thef
hearts and minds of thousands in
every generation. The answer is
clear and definite.
The only entrance into the Chris
tian life is by the door of the new
birth. Regeneration is the act of
God whereby the divine nature is
imparted to the believing sinner and
he becomes the child of God. He
who has not entered by this way
has not entered at all. He is still
dead in trespasses and sins, with
out God and without hope (Eph.
2:1. 12).
The Pharisees who looked for
the coming of the Messiah as a sec
ular conqueror wondered at this
new spiritual leader. It was prob
kbly as much on their behalf as his
own that Nicodemus came to in
quire of Jesus. In answering his
questions Jesus reveals the neces
sity, the nature, and the method of
regeneration. - i
I. The New Birth—a Necessity
<w. 1-7).
Our Lord's visitor was a man of
distinction and standing in the com
munity, but Jesus was not unduly
(impressed by the dignity and high
station of his visitor, nor by the vis
itor’s courteous aknowledgment of
his own position as a great teacher]
With decisive boldness Jesus de-i
dares that this man, a cultured
and distinguished ruler of the Jews*
must be born again, if he is to set)
the kingdom of God.
God is no respecter of persons.!
The doctor of divinity must be born)
,again just as much as the illiterate]
fisherman. D. L. Moody once said*
that he was thankful it was to such
a man as Nicodemus that Jesus
presented the necessity of the new
birth, or men would have said that
only the down-and-outer needed to
be saved
. Two reasons are given by our
Lord for the “must” of verse 7:
(1) The kingdom of God is a spir
itual kingdom and cannot be en
tered by way of our human nature;
and (2) “that which is born of the
flesh is flesh” and is radically and
essentially bad. To learn why that
is true read Jeremiah 13:23 and
Galatians 5:19-21.
Scripture on this point is almost
diametrically opposed to much of
the teachings in our schools and
colleges. But God’s Wonl is right;
let us follow it.
II. The New Birth—a Mystery
(w. 8-11).
God has graciously revealed to
us “all things that pertain unto life
and godliness, through the knowl
edge” of Christ (II Pet. 1:3). But
it is true—and we say quite appro
priately true — that he has some
things hidden in his own blessed
counsels. We know the experience
of the new birth. We see the blessed
results of regeneration. But what
actually takes place is a divine
mystery, not fathomable by human
reason. Those who insist that all
spiritual truth be put through the
little norm of their intelligence will
never understand it or receive its
blessing (I Cor. 2:14).
The striking illustration of the
life-giving and energizing wind
used by our Lord is most illuminat
ing. Wind is unseen, but the re
sults of its movement are evident.
Even so the spiritual rebirth of men
is an enigma to the worldly man,
but even he can see its results in
godly living.
We know that regeneration is not
only a possibility, but an actuality,
a fact; in truth, the greatest /f ail
facts. •
III. The New Birth—a r.ealfty
(w. 16, 17).
Just as there was healing and
life in a look at the uplifted serpent
in the wilderness (Num. 21:8). so
there is life for a look at the Cruci
fied One. Faith receives God's per
fect provision for sin.
Verse 16 may well be regarded
as the greatest sentence in the
greatest Book in the world. It
presents the whole plan of salva
tion—its source, its ground, its re
cipients, its condition, and its re
sult.
This glorious salvation is for all
men—‘ whosoever” —but some re
ject it. Notice that God does not
condemn them. Their own evil
works and desires condemn them
(vv. 17-20). God in his grace is
ready and willing to save, but men
love “darkness rather than light ”
for their works are evil.
Our tender, loving heavenly Fath
er has no desire to condemn any
one. The man or woman who falls
under his condemnation of sin does
so by choice. God’s desire is that
all should be saved.
Will you, unbeliever who reads
these lines, respond now*to bis gra
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