CHRIST'S LIKENESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 184, 6 August 1934, Page 3

CHRIST'S LIKENESS.

NO WORD IN NEW TESTAMENT In the course of an address at the public meeting held in the Conceit Chamber last evening, the Rev. W. Bower Black, of St. David's Presbyterian Church, spolic to an audience of several hundred people on the strange fact that, in all the New Testament, there was not a single descriptive line telling of the personal appearance of Jesus, From the earliest days until now, art had endeavoured to supply that lack r but no one could pretend that the efforts of the artists had been very satisfying. Although the Gospels gave no description of His outward form, they showed beyond any doubt the things that gripped and compelled men by their sheer wonder and mystery. The most amazing thing was that although He departed from the sight of men, His influence still continued and His spell over the hearts of men increased a thousandfold. From the searching test of time and distance and absence Jesus emerged unshaken. The whole essence of the Christian message to the world, said Mr. Black, was simply that this was not the spell of the dead, but of the living, that the Christ of the Gospels still moved about among us with charm and winsomeness and grace, and that He still constrained humanity, so that vile men were turned into saints.