William J Hocking

We ought not to forget our responsibility towards others, for there can be no valid excuse for a Christian who exhibits a selfish indifference to the highest welfare of others. Setting aside for the time the claims arising out of the bond of our common manhood, the Scripture is clear that "none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. For whether we live, we live to the Lord; or whether die, we die to the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." — Rom. 14:7-8. This passage, therefore, clearly implies that just as surely as we have an unchangeable relation to the Lord Himself, so surely we have an unchanging relation to those about us.