KNOX CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 154, 1 July 1901, Page 2

KNOX CHURCH.

At Knox Church, Parnell, yesterday morning the Eev. H. Kelly, ALA., preached on the subject, "It is the constant fate of God to be misunder» stood." He selected as his text John xii. 29. After elucidating his text he said that It was the belief of ' the Christian Church and it was our deep and ever-deepening conviction, that God Almighty had spoken to man, and yet how differently men interpret that revelation, some misreading it completely. Others explain it as a merely natural occurrence. He did not suppose that any method God chose to make such revelation would be absolutely devoid of difficulty, or incapable of misinterpretation. No matter what form revelation had taken or might take, it would be always possible to doubt. There were a large number of professing Christians who knew little or nothing of the details, and were wofully ignorant of the very rudiments of th.c Divine scheme. What was needed was a Scripture-informed community — twenty men in every hundred at least competent to stand up in the pulpit and instruct vast bodies of their fellow worshippers. Why was God daily misunderstood? The explanation was found or might be illustrated by very common experience. Our understanding of God and His revelation was in the measure of our affinity with Him. Unless we loved God we could never know Him.