Show PLACE YOURSELF IN THEIR POSITION eminent divine explains the modern application of golden rule golden colden rule sunday is De december rember 4 on that day pec e of more than fifty countries will partake ot of a fimple meal will read about the orphan chil dren ot of the near east and then make such a gift as they would have some one make it their children were among the desolate in the bible lands the essential tiling thing about golden flaule sunday la Is not the day on which it la Is observed nor the eating ct of an orphanage meal states rev iter W 13 tl luson son pastor of 0 the east side baptist church of portland and vice chairman ot of the northwest regional committee ol 01 near east relief the essential thing Is hut we should each for or ourselves answer ibe question what would I 1 have some one else do it 11 my children were hungry and some one had my income here I 1 golden rule sunday sets a terrifically high standard of giving parents worthy ot of the name will go hungry my any time that their children might be fed ail no sacrifice Is too great it it it for or their childen child en jesu jesus demands he ame same standard ot of sacrifice for others as we have for our own it la Is dr drastic revolutionary but imperative why call yo me lord lord and do not the things which I 1 command you he cries the one who aho would observe gold en rule sunday should iq his imagination see his children deprived ot of their natural protectors scattered tike like sheep having no shepherd biding by day from their enemies gathering what food they can by night exposed to the bitter cold ot of winter or the burning sun ot of bummer summer claiming refuge refugo at an american orphanage only to be told there is no room I 1 he ile should see old hargue gling through snows an orphan grand child by each hand with the baby on her back who finds at night that that baby lias tins frozen to death lie ile should see twelve year old Char Charlam lambus bua struggling along with other deportees bearing his six year old brother to safety carrying his body even after he thought the boy was dead he ile must see in these two to bora boys not only the symbols of almost countless thousands of at children but be he must see in them hie his own boys there Is little u ue q to attempt to visualize the bast 1 number or ahans now in american care and the equal or greater number whose help Is a claim on american char ity but lut for whom no provision can be made when we see our own children comfortable and happy we can think of the same number homeless exiles in the near east there are few spiritual exercises exercise more fruitful than this and men and women omen who honestly attempt to apply the golden rule to these other children will not measure their gifts by pennies but by dollars by fives lives and tens and hundreds and thousands all things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you or to your children it left destitute do yo to them likewise |