True Love Is Practical - "IN DEED AND TRUTH"

 This almost proved his undoing.  He was almost overcome with the fumes of his lamb, and, on the failure of radio messages from him, a rescue party was sent out from the base of operations, and it located his snow-covered hut, dug through the snow and brought him out alive.  In the nick of time.  No  ess so it is dangerous for Christians to go into isolation voluntarily and into aloneness, tiring becoming bored at the association of brothers and preferring aloneness or the society of animal or, worse still, the society of this wor;ld.  Such aloneness may indeed leas to madness, a madness in a spiritual way, for it cuts us off from the theocratic organization through which Jehovah's food, direction and protection come, and so it leads us to destruction.  

In the world it may be true that close association and familarity breed contempt. But the world does not have Jehovah's spirit.  We of this New World society do. Its fruitage is love in a true way.  If we really love the whole association of brothers we shall find ourselves  unable to isolate themselves from  them.  Love always seeks the object of its affection, it cannot stay alone. If a young man hasa consuming fondness for a young maid, then you just try to keep him away from her. Thatm, says the wise man, was one of four  things too wonderful for him to understand: "the way of a man with a maiden." (Proverbs 30:19, AS)   Somust we be toward our brothers.  Of our own choice we cannot keep away from them, and not just because God commands that we do not forsake meeting with them.  We must mix with them, and must do so with positive ideas, to do good to othersm, to be profitable, and not just to be benefited  personally,being only on the receiving end.  Missionaries that live in the same missionary home or thsoe who work in the same group shouls grow in appreciation  of one another, put up with one another at times when it is a bit trialsome, and be a strength to one another, since two in co-operation are better than one.  (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12) Missionaries need one another in the field activity.  They should try to safeguard one another from local dangers. All this, which may be a some cost to their own personal feelings, they ought to do in the interest of the worki, to build up a local congregation of native witnesses of Jehovah.

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