Bulletin-Church Homecoming: In Christ (Pack Of 100) (Pkg-100)
Bulletin Categories: Church Anniversary / Church Homecoming
In 1889, Rudyard Kipling published his poem, \The Ballad of East and West,\ that celebrates the possibility of mutual respect between people who are very different from each other. Nine years later after Kipling\'s poem was published, William Arthur Dunkerly (using the pen name John Oxenham) wrote this hymn, \In Christ There Is No East or West.\ The occasion was a great missionary exhibition sponsored by the London Missionary Society. The hymn, which gets its inspiration from Kipling\'s poem, takes Kipling\'s idea a step farther. It reminds us that Christ brings all sorts of people together \in one great fellowship of love.\ (Reference: lectionary.org/hymnstories/In Christ There Is No East or West)