LOOKING FOR A MASTER.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19814, 30 December 1929, Page 11

LOOKING FOR A MASTER.

BISHOP WEST-WATSON'S SERMON.

Bishop "West-Watson was the preacher at Evensong at St. Luke's yesterday. His Lordship took as his text the eighth verse, 13th chapter, of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever." His Lordship said that on the last Sunday of the year one was apt to ask oneself where one stood and what one had done during the past year. Opinions on most subjects shifted and changed, so that a man who was a hero to-day might be dragged down to-morrow, and, on the other hand, a man who -was perhaps a laughing stock to-day might be made a hero of to-morrow. But Jesus Christ never changed. He was divine and stood as a rock—a rock of ages. He helped us to find the truth, because He was the truth and a reality. The preacher believed that to-day men were looking for someone to help them. There were always some people looking for a master. As a matter of fact, the number who really liked their independence was smalL it was strange, therefore, that men should pass over Christ when He offered Himself to them as their Master. Was this because to accept Christ meant a surrender and a confession of faith? All such difficulties would be surely overcome if one remembered the Babe in the Manger God having thus shown that He desired to save mankind by love. Surely, then, it was not a humiliation to surrender in such circumstances. To accept Jesus Christ involved no lo«8 of one's individuality: rather did it mean that one gained individuality.