Preacher's Monthly Acts 17:26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed… This doctrine has three parts — I. THE UNITY OF THE CREATOR. 1. Each nation in the dim past had its own gods, and the belief that they were superior to those of their neighbours. 2. But opposed to this is the revelation of one God, Creator, Universal Governor who is over all, and all in all. II. THE UNITY OF MANKIND. 1. God created man — male and female. 2. This was one act, not divided or repeated at intervals in different places. 3. From this one pair the world has been peopled, through the laws of generation and dispersion. This contradicts the superstition of the heathen in reference to their origin, e.g., the Athenian belief that they were autochthons, springing from the soil. III. THE UNITY OF DESTINY. 1. Man has a common nature, a mind that thinks, a heart that feels, a will that chooses, a soul that never dies. 2. Each nation has the same problems of society, government, and religion, to discover and apply. 3. Each nation is subject to the same diseases, physical and moral, and runs a like career of ruin or prosperity. IV. RESULTS. 1. The purple tide of related blood from one spring writes a common declaration of rights which no Christian is at liberty to disregard. Simply to be a man or woman is to have claims upon the whole race. 2. Nations are so bound together in progress and privileges, material, moral and spiritual, that whatever helps or injures man in one quarter of the globe is ultimately a help or an injury to all. 3. It is the common duty of Christian nations to labour for the general diffusion of religion and civilization, so that peace, art, and science may universally prevail, and every human faculty find unhindered liberty to develop itself to the glory of God, individual wellbeing, and the good of mankind. (Preacher's Monthly.) Parallel Verses KJV: And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; |
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