PULPIT VOICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 16

PULPIT VOICES.

THE HORRORS OF WAR.

POWERFUL CONDEMNATION.

The Rev. .E. T. Olds delivered an :at the people's popular service : in the Strand Theatre. 'The speaker said the'whole idea : of "war among ; the peoples of the earth was wrong; and no one knew it better than those who had gone through it. A picture now being presented in Auckland showed war in- all its stark, reality and brutality, stripped of all its cheap trappings. Miv Olds said it wks the people of every land who had to pay the awful price of war, and it was only the.people of every land 'who could stop it. The key to the situation lay in the hands of a Man who lived 1900 years, ago, a Jew, and yet one who belonged to every race and every" age; the great Internationalist/the Universalist, Jesus Christ. ■ "Love, your enemies," he had said. "Bless: them that curse you."' Tomany it seemed a tame way, but it was the only way. ■Hatred;, must give place to love;-;;; trust mueftake the place of fear. We had not: yet tried? out : tlic;; way of Jesus

Christ-; but His. -vyasthe last word. We must try it out, or- we. should iJens'h from .the face:of the earth. ; ■;..'

MESSAGE; TO-THE;; WJEARY. ;,?

" At the Church of Christ,. Ponsbriby Road ■■ on" •*'Sunday,:;. •.:Mr.': : Russell Dick ;took !for his text -the: words'in. Psalm 34:8, "0 ■ taste and.jsee that the Lord is good," and said 'that the text Was a ; - challenge to so called "Rationalism." The greatest Book in'the, world began with a definite statement, "lii the beginning God," and man had ; never yet got , beyond that statement, and. as man. pondered upon those, four words, he was forced to : the conclusion that intellect came 'from' .intellect,- personality from personality, ability ;tcv ; say "I will" from the original' force" that said "Thou shalt," and man was a : liv--ing testimony to: the- fact that there was a .God. .: • . . .;;/,'• '," ' ■■ .'; ; i

At, the evening service, ■ Pastor M.A., speaking on the. tli«ime, "A Message to the Wea'ry," said that, at; the conclusion of the Great Wai , , .there"were, prophets who said that the.world would witness a great .spiritual awakening, but the years liad gone and the. awakening, had not come and the prophets had

illusioned. It was the Master Himself who said, "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and are heavy, laden, and I will give you' rest, , . , .and the Christ 'had" proved : ; Himself a comfort and a thousands of,. trusting 'abuls ; the. ages.- His po\ver Sva&l jusi. as to-day as ever it Avas .because : He was]the. One thati changeth "the-. to r day, and for ever." •■•',"• r ■ . ' ~