A Negro, Slave Treated Kindly

From: Messages of God's Love: 1940

After he had been some time in service, his master said to him,

“Now you are of age, you may go where you please, and serve any master you think proper. I did not buy you to keep you as a slave, but that you might enjoy the sweetness of liberty. You can leave my house tomorrow if you life.” The poor slave boy was melted by the power of kindness, and with the deepest emotion he exclaimed,

“Me leave you my dear massa? O! no, not for all the world. Me want no wages to serve you, if massa turn me out at one door, me will come in at the other,”

“No man can serve two masters ... . Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matt. 6:24²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24).

“Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.” Col. 3:23,24²³And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; ²⁴Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. (Colossians 3:23‑24).

ML 08/25/1940

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