Kagawa's Friendship Lesson
Story★★★★Kagawa, that amazing Christian teacher and saint of Japan, once revealed the value of friendship to some of his fellow-students. Once in the theological college he criticized the members of the star? for having dismissed a student wrongly. He and four others were to be expelled from the college for having so criticized the staff. As he went to the principal for the final handshake before leaving, Kagawa said to him, “Christianity is a religion of love and a theological college should be a school of love.
A school of love should guide a mistaken student. As God never abandons anyone, so a college ought never to drive a student away. Please forgive and reinstate the other four students and let the sentence of expulsion fall upon me alone.” All were reinstated.
The point
Kagawa offered to accept expulsion alone from theological college rather than let his four fellow students be cast out, demonstrating Christ's sacrificial love and the power of intercession.