Most of these verses were spoken primarily with reference to the Church as an organization. Today they seem equally applicable to the whole world. For not only the physical but the mental seismographs in every land are sensitive to the smallest shock at any place. A pistol shot in a small Bohemian town could set four-fifths of the world at war. True, also, are these verses if applied even to things no more profound than the cross-section of the day of a modern man. "When he rises, a sponge is placed in his hand by a Pacific Islander, a cake of soap by a Frenchman, a rough towel by a Turk. His merino underwear he takes from the hand of a Spaniard, his linen from a Belfast manufacturer, his outer garments from a Birmingham weaver, his scarf from a French silk grower, his shoes from a Brazilian grazier. At breakfast his cup of coffee is poured by natives of Java and Arabia; his rolls are passed by a Kansas farmer, his beefsteak by a Texan ranchman, his orange by a Florida Negro." And so on through the day-a million men and women and children have been working for him; and in return he should add his mite to the common stock upon which others draw.

It is not enough, however, merely to recognize these interrelations. We must also see what lies back of these contributions to our lives. Our coal, our clothes, our ornamentsthese things are a part of our system, are a part of us. Many of these things are the fruit of slum conditions and represent, not something apart, but the reverse of what seems like the splendid fabric of our lives. In the graphic figure of H. G. Wells, "The wide rich tapestry of your lives comes through on the other side, stitch for stitch, in stunted bodies, in children's deaths." And what is true in the social and industrial world holds true in the international. In fact, Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" holds as its thesis that no people can possibly benefit itself by conquering, impoverishing, or even forcibly annexing another people. The other nation also is part of the larger self, and we suffer with the other member.

But even if there were no unsocial conditions of production of which to think, would we be relieved of responsibility? Can we take from Rome, from Greece, from Arabia, from Egypt, the very words and numbers that we hourly use and

2 George Harris, “Moral Evol-tion,” p. 36.

feel no sense of obligation in return? Shall we accept from Japan and China the ripe fruitage of their rare arts and feel that the whole debt has been discharged when a mere money recompense has been made? Something more than the removal of downright selfishness is needed on the part of the individual and the group if class and racial troubles are to cease. There could still remain that preoccupation with one's more narrow range of interests that obliterates all sense of solidarity. What we need is a consciousness alive to the significance of a membership one with the other. We should not need another war to burn into us the awful results of attempting to live unto ourselves alone.

Let us, on the other hand, not fail to draw inspiration for resourceful constructive work from a vivid realization of our interrelationships. For every social reformer, every religious worker, may know that each victory that he wins will benefit not merely those whose interests he immediately seeks to serve, but also his awakening fellow-members the world around. So real and intricate are our interrelations that the removal of unchristian principles from the social institutions of any land makes the progress of every other land just so much more possible. If we long that God's will should be done anywhere, it is wise and reasonable to keep in mind the whole, to work and pray that "thy will be done on earth.”

First Week, Fifth Day: God's Kindergarten for Eternity

For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

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Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you: but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you, whensoever I go unto Spain.-Rom. 15:18, 19, 22-24a.

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; and when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not; and passing by Mysia,

they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. And when he had seen the vision, straightway we sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel unto them.-Acts 16:6-10.

Every night as we look up at Orion or the Pleiades God is encouraging us to live more magnificent, inclusive lives. Put yourself out in the universe and look back upon the tiny, half-cooled orb we call the earth. Here is where God has set us for a few days to train us for eternity. (A few continents, a few peoples, myriads of stars to draw us on-such is our kindergarten, C

Notice how Paul had learned this lesson. The book of Acts deals with great sweeps of geography. Along the great Roman roads, through the great centers of government, Paul not only thought but went. Troas was Paul's door to Europe -Rome and Spain lay on ahead. It was because Paul could think in the world terms of his time that the first great expansion of the Kingdom was made possible. Into the range of his thinking and sympathy had come his whole world. Who does not feel that Paul had already graduated into an ampler school?

Francis Xavier was another who had learned to grasp a world. He was sent forth by Loyola with the charge, “Go set the world on fire," and in ten crowded years he gave his message in India, Malacca, Ceylon, Cochin, Japan. When, finally, his life burnt out at the gate of China, he was planning to preach Christ through that empire, and to evangelize Europe by way of Siberia. "Eternity only, Francis, is sufficient for such a heart as yours," wrote his master, Loyola, "the kingdom of glory alone is worthy of it.”

The question for us is whether we, with the immensely increased resources at our command, have left the primary grade with reference to this little ball on which we live. Have we Paul's grasp of facts? Can we, like him, think in continents? Many of us have but begun to learn this first lesson for world citizenship-mere expansiveness of sympathy. America has a greater challenge than any other nation to leave the provincial and to develop the international mind If the president of the National City Bank can declare that

the banker of the future must be an international thinker, how much more must the Church rear up Christians who can think in world terms.) In the New York subway an advertisement of chewing gum has actually been pictured against a background of the globe; and surely the Christian, because of his being such, should be able to think as far around the world as South Dakota wheat is carried. A world-encircling purpose and vision is needed right through our church membership. Can you think beyond the bounds of your own community, or state, or nation? Are you accustoming yourself to think in world terms?

One must make the start and live with it daily, for one does not pass from parochial to world thought over night. John Wesley had it when he spoke of the world as his parish. William Lloyd had it when he said, "My country is the world; my countrymen the inhabitants of it." The shoemaker, William Carey, had overcome provincialism when, in reading the life of David Brainerd, he could not but ask, "If God can do such things for the Indians of America, why not for the pagans of India?" Alexander Mackay became what he was to Uganda because a father knew how to trace the journeys of Livingstone on a map before the boy and because a mother's heart had thrilled to tales of missionary heroism. Today a band of twenty-five thousand American, British, and continental missionaries are working at a world problem. Modern missions have caught the vision of the world and are at work for mankind. Have you caught it? Are you growing more able day by day to pray "Thy kingdom come” with new content not only in the quality but in the expansiveness of that conception? The modern mind and heart and conscience must not have frontiers.

First Week, Sixth Day: Self-Identification with the Larger Group

And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, O, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.-Exodus 32:31, 32.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. For I could wish

that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh: who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.-Rom. 9:1-5.

In these burning words Moses and Paul reveal the completeness of their identification with the larger group about them. Is anything like such attainment possible for us? Did that young lieutenant have it when a shell fell, about to explode, amongst the little group for which he was responsible, and he impulsively threw himself upon it?

Some attain this identification through patriotism. "What do I want with money if my country fails? If Russia loses, I lose; if Russia wins, I win." So spoke General Tatisheff, an out-and-out Christian patriot, in answer to his friends who thought him foolish to sell all his property that the proceeds might be used by the Government.

Some approach it through gratitude, as did a patient in South China. Having recovered from a severe sickness in the mission hospital, he showed how far his old exclusiveness had been changed by presenting to his ward a handsome tablet, bearing characters which signified, "China with outsiders one large family."

Through devoted response to Africa's deepest need, Francois Coillard came still closer to self-identification with the larger group when, in 1898, on his third journey to that land, he said, "I am departing for the third time to Africa-poor Africa! Ah, if one could only give oneself to her until the last hour of one's life!"

On the other hand, how easy it is to miss the attainment of the larger self, even where failure is least expected. The missionary, having responded to a world call, may find himself so engrossed with the detailed routine of an Indian district that all interest in the progress of the Kingdom in other lands is crowded out. He may find himself with less knowledge of world-wide missions than when he was at home. A president of a foreign missionary society can actually be so enthusiastic over the foreign aspects of the work that she is vexed when the prayer-book for home missions is bound up with that for foreign missions; or chafes when the Negro,