NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 239, 8 October 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

'A text? "Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of come is; but exhorting one another." Hebrews x, 24, 25.

"The world can never understand a Christianity that keeps aloof from the sorrow and the suffering of the poor." R. P. Hortdn.

Cromwell had on the fly-leaf of his Bible the searching sentence: "He who stops being better stops being good." A fine motto for us aIL

"Faith in Christ, in the highest and the purest, is the conviction that the highest we are made capable of seeing is enshrined at the heart of things."— R. J. Campbell

It is sometimes said of a preacher that he must have, at least, these three qualifications: He must have something to say, he must be interesting, and he must be in close contact with the main movements of modern thought.

"The Nation" (New York) says of 12 pictures advertised in an issue of a movie trade publication: "Every one of them assumes that sexual sins contribute the. .one really interesting subject in the world."

"The public life of Jesus was a supreme exhibition of the power of God, beside which the creation of the sun and moon is not to be mentioned. There has only been one Christ, nor can we imagine another like unto Him, who indeed in His solitary greatness is the only begotten and well beloved Son of God." —John Watson.

"I do not know how any Christian service is to be fruitful if the servant is not primarily baptised in the spirit of a suffering compassion. We can never heal the needs we do not feel. Tearless hearts can never be the heralds of the Passion. We must pity if we would redeem. We must bleed if we would be the ministers of the saving blood."—J. H. Jowett.

"When once you know Him, Christ ia absolutely irresistible. You can 110 more help trusting Him than you can help breathing. Anil could the whole world but know Him as He is, the whole world, sinners and all, would fall at His feet in adoring worship. They simply could not help it. His surpassing loveliness would carry all before it."—Hannah Whitall Smith.

"In the presence of all the bigness, the stir, the swing of the world's life, at such central spots as this our power of quiet sympathy, or painstaking care for other people's needs and difficulties, is far harder to evoke and use. We know so much about all that is going on that we come to care less. The stream is eo wide it must needs become shallow." A. B. Davidson.

Walter Lippman says in "The Boston Globe" (U.S.A.) that America needs leaders who are truthful and eloquent, and will talk to the people, not about two-car garages, and a bonus, but about their duty, and about the they must make, and about the discipline they must impose on themselves, and about their responsibility to the world and to posterity—about all those things which make a people self-respecting, serene and confident.

Mr. Dale once said "We often ask God's forgiveness for our sins; do we ever ask His forgiveness for our sadness?" Christianity, eays a writer, is built on hope. It centres in a singing Christ. Like Paul and Silas we, by singing during the midnight hour of economic chaos and calamity, may burst open the doors of the prisons of despair, dejection, depression and doubt ia whfcrh dwells to-dajj^