Pocahontas in English Society
Poem★★★★When John Rolfe married Pocahontas and took her to England as his wife, the Indian princess entered on a way of living utterly different from that she had known among her people in America. Having turned her back on the primitive life of the wigwam, she undertook to acquire CROSS 75 the manners of polite society. She had become the wife of an English gentleman. Her new position required of her a new way of living.
When one becomes a Christian he experiences a change of position much more significant than any change of earthly station. “Now, therefore, ye are no more stran- gers and foreigners, but a fellow-citizen with the saints, and of the household of God.”
The life of a Christian must be in keeping with his new position. Again and again in the New Testament this _ truth is emphasized. “As ye have therefore received Christ _ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him,” wrote the Apostle Paul.
And if we wonder what is meant by “walking in _ Christ,” we have but to look back to the preceding chap- _ ter to find the idea clarified, when the apostle said to the Colossians: “I am praying for you .. . that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work.” That is to say: ““A Christian’s man- ner of life must meet two tests. It must be in all things I pleasing to Christ. It must be of full good works.”’—Chris- I tian Observer.
The point
As Pocahontas left her old life for English society, a Christian must leave the old way for a new manner of living worthy of their new station.