OPTIMISM NEEDED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 15 August 1932, Page 6

OPTIMISM NEEDED.

A PURPOSE IN OUR TROUBLES. ARCHBISHOP JULIUS'S SERMON* 'The only' man who does veal harm these da3 - s is the poor faint-hearted one, who, because he iias lost his job, thinks that he is finished and can see no further ahead than to-day with its petty financial troubles," said Archbishop Julius preaching at St. Augustine's Church, Cashmere, yesterday morning.

"During the past week, with its many attractions, I have been talking with various people, and I have noticed how underneath a surface of gaiety and pleasure there lurked a sense of anxiety. There is trouble ■everywhere, among all the nations of the earth, but turning away from all this the following words come to my mind, 'Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,' to-day, and forever.' " To-day was but a little bit of eternity, ho said, which v was our own. You saw it and before you could grasp it, it was gone and was yours no longer. Was it true, he asked, that more -than 1800 years ago Jesus became incarnate, that He might draw man up to join with God? Surely this was impossible when one thought of this little planet of ours and the way in which people met their troubles.

Archbishop Julius proceeded to outline the tribulations which the Hebrew Christians had suffered, and said that there was a great purpose being fulfilled if Christ could show that these tribulations' were but expression of the moment, and were'for some ulterior purpose. ''The labour of to-day is but a part of the labour and toil of yesterday, but there is a purposo in it. • To. the Hebrews,a very arduous task was given, but they stuck to it. ever a man yields to misery he is no good, and as it was with the Hebrews so it is to-day. The scenes are changed, but it is open for us to combat our misfortunes as they did. One thing has gone on in spite of all its faults and shames—and thero are many—and that is the Church of God.". No matter what people say about religion being just a fasjiion, the love of Jesus was still living, the Archbishop concluded, and this love was the big thing in the solution of our troubles.