TUESDAY, July 6

Romans 8:31-39. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Albert Einstein some time ago said he had always thought that when the crisis came in Germany, the universities would be the bulwark of human freedom; but when the crisis did come, in the face of a grim and utterly ruthless government, the universities capitulated and collapsed, and it is the Christian church that has kept alive whatever of freedom is left there.

The crisis will come for all of us in one form or another. If we depend on our own abilities--though we be intellectual giants--we shall fail. Loyal members of the church find a strength which gives them victory. Are we now proving our loyalty as church members?

"The church is the only organism within a nation which by its very nature must be loyal to a God beyond the state, to humanity beyond the nation, to the kingdom of God beyond any actual social order," said theologian John C. Bennett.

In any conflict between loyalty to Christ and any other loyalty, Christ claims our allegiance. (1937)

PRAY for the Diocese of Eastern Michigan (Province V, USA)

Ps 5, 6 * 10, 11; Numbers 35:1-3, 9-15, 30-34; Matthew 23:13-26

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