DR. PETTIT’S LECTURES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 6

DR. PETTIT’S LECTURES

“THE GALL OF THE PRESENT HOUR."

last evening, in the Concert Chamber, Dr. W. H. Pettit delivered tho last of his series of lectures. Mr. C. J. Drake, the chairman, expressed the pleasure of his committee and the Christian comniunity, for the helpful lectures that had been delivered. Dr. Pettit, in introducing his subject, said that the meetings had demonstrated once again the fact that nothing met the hunger of the human heart except the Word of God. Tho pathos of the present situation lay in the fact that so many were exchanging the truth of God for a lie, and were building their hopes for time and eternity on vain and empty theories of human philosophy, and rot upon the eternal Word of the living God. ■ Tho call of the present nour was, first of all a call to the Lord’s people to bear united, fearless testimony to the inspiration of the Scriptures. Many Christians to-da.v whose personal faith was clear and firm shrank from taking a fearless stand by the side of those who were witnessing to the truth. Whatever the cost, the Lord Himself claimed the unswerving allegiance and the fearless testimony of those who were His. In the next place, the speaker said, the conditions around them were a call to faithful, persistent, prevailing prayer. The history of Christianity proved that whenever God’s people had given themselves to prayer. He had coma in to work deliverance.

God asked of men their .love and their obedience. He did not need their philosophies or their eloquence. In his early life D. L. Moody heard someone say: "The world has yet to see what God can do throurh a man whose, life is absolutely dedicated to the doing of His will.” Moody thought: “The speaker did not say a gifted man: he said a dedicated man: I will bo that man. If each of them would also sav. “I will bo that man," God would stretch forth His hand in reviving power and scatter all His enemies.