Article August 28, 1948 Issue

THE JOY OF SERVICE

JEANNE ROE PRICE

"What, in all your lifetime, has caused you the greatest satisfaction?" an old Chinese philosopher was once asked.

"A child that went down the road singing, after asking me the way," he replied.

Nothing in all the world is of greater satisfaction than unselfish service. Many years ago Christ Jesus taught us the lesson of service. Master, his disciples called him; and Master, indeed, he was. Yet on the evening before the crucifixion, as they were gathered together for what we have since called "the last supper," it was he who wrapped a towel around his waist and, taking a basin of water, washed the disciples' feet. Gently, wisely, lovingly, he asked (John 13:12), "Know ye what I have done to you?" And then he explained (verses 13–15): "Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." No better lesson could he have given them; no greater sermon could he have preached. He, their Lord and Master, he whom they loved and respected above anyone else on earth, instead of being served, lovingly and graciously served them.

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