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Gideon Bands
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GIDEON BANDS
FOR WORK WITHIN THE RACE
AND FOR WORK WITHOUT
THE RACE
A Message to the Colored People
of the United States
A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE FIFTEENTH STREET
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
SUNDAY, MARCH THE 2ND, 1913,
BY THE PASTOR,
REV. FRANCIS J. GRIMKE, D. D.
“BETTER NOT LIVE AT ALL THAN NOT BE NOBLE.”
“UNLESS ABOVE HIMSELF HE CAN
ERECT HIMSELF, HOW POOR A THING IS MAN!”
“FOR FREEDOM’S BATTLE ONCE BEGUN,
BEQUEATH’D BY BLEEDING SIRE TO SON,
THOUGH BAFFLED OFT IS EVER WON.”
“EVERY BONDMAN IN HIS OWN HAND BEARS
THE POWER TO CANCEL HIS CAPTIVITY.”
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GIDEON BANDS FOR WORK WITHIN THE RACE AND FOR WORK WITHOUT IT.
And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are toomany for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israelvaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Nowtherefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever isfearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Giliad.And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and thereremained ten thousand. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people areyet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them forthee there; and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shallgo with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I shallsay unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. Sohe brought them down to the water: and Jehovah said unto Gideon, Everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, himshalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down uponhis knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting theirhands to their mouth, was 300; but all the rest of the people boweddown upon their knees to drink water. And Jehovah said unto Gideon,By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver theMidianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man to hisplace.—Judges 7:1–7.
Several years ago this passage formed a part of the annual programmeof the Young Peoples’ Society of Christian Endeavor, and was discussedunder the heading, “Wanted: Men for Gideon’s Band.” And this is thesubject that I desire to consider this morning. There are several linesof thought suggested by the topic. No one can read the narrative out ofwhich it grows without being profoundly impressed.
                        
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