did the early Christians in Jerusalem exemplify the principle of fraternity? 3. Do you see any difference between the two petitions of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come" and "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"? 4. Do you think there are evidences of God's work in American history? If so, indicate some of them. 5. Have you ever tried to put the Golden Rule into literal operation? What success did you have? 6. Do you think a man can live the Christian life and cherish a grudge against his neighbor? 7. What do you think of the saying, "I can forgive but I cannot forget "? CHAPTER IV MARRIAGE ON no subject has human thought more centered than upon the family. There is nothing more important in our entire social life. For a nation will not be better than its homes. Christianity did not invent the family or marriage, but it has been probably the greatest agency in giving ideals to the home. This is all the more remarkable when one recalls that Jesus was not married, and that so much of the New Testament literature was written by Paul who, like his Master, had no home. But how incomplete would the gospel be without the figures drawn from fatherhood, sonship, marriage, and childhood. The more one reads the New Testament the more does one feel how sacred the family is because it so often serves as a symbol of the relations of the church with Christ. When the New Testament writers wish to express the very closest and holiest union of believers with their Lord it is to the family to which they turn for symbols. In order to make this more apparent it is worth while pausing to recall how much of a contrast there is between such use of the figure and some of the conceptions current in Jesus' own day. Both among the Jews and the Romans the family was of impor |