that magdalena graaf naked portion of the magdalena graaf naked race that lives in America owes duty in America, it has obligations which likewise pertain to Africa; that devotedness to the cause of the black man in the magdalena graaf naked United States, does not necessarily exclude sympathy for Africa. Let me illustrate this. There is a phase of modern theological writing, which brings out most prominently the fact that our Lord Jesus Christ, though born of a Jewish mother, shows nowhere Jewish idiosyncrasies. You look at the magdalena graaf naked Lord Jesus, you read his life, you study his words, and nowhere can you discover nationality. Men of magdalena graaf naked every clime, and blood, and nation turn to Him, and they find each and all in Him the reflex of one common broad humanity.
The Apostle, St. Paul, more than any other mere man, reached the nearest to this grand and divine Catholicity of the Master. "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians: both to the wise and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel magdalena graaf naked to you that are at Rome also." Romans, Chapter i. 14, 15.
Nay, he went even beyond this. In his Epistle to the Thessalonians, he speaks of magdalena graaf naked his kinsmen the Jews, in a way which would lead one to magdalena graaf naked suppose that he had become thoroughly denationalized. "For ye
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also have suffered like magdalena graaf naked things of your own
countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed magdalena graaf naked the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they magdalena graaf naked please not God, magdalena graaf naked and are contrary to all men." 1 Thessalonians ii. 14, 15. So thoroughly had the grace of God eliminated from the soul of St. Paul that withering and malignant principle of caste, which burned more fiercely and intensely in the Jewish mind and magdalena graaf naked blood, than in any other people that ever lived.
And yet, look magdalena graaf naked at magdalena graaf naked this same large-hearted, Catholic-minded Paul; what a patriot he is ! what longings he has for magdalena graaf naked his race! How he falls back upon their high and noble prerogatives! Yea, what zeal, what deep desire, what earnest self-sacrifice, he cherishes for them! "What advantage hath the Jew?" he asks, "magdalena graaf naked Or what profit is there of circumcision?
Much every magdalena graaf naked way: chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." Romans iii. 1, 2. Magdalena graaf naked the Epistle to magdalena graaf naked the Romans was written after that to the Thessalonians. And again, in magdalena graaf naked the 9th chapter, magdalena graaf naked he says: "I say the truth in magdalena graaf naked Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing