MR MACE'S MISSION

Evening Star, Issue 16663, 20 February 1918, Page 6

MR MACE'S MISSION

Last evening Mr Mace spoke to a large audience on 'Four Things that are Little Upon tho Earth, but are Exceeding' Wise' —viz., ants, conies, locusts, and spiders (Proverbs xxx., verses 24 28). A spiritual lesson, he said, could '; taken from each of these little creatur. During summer ants make provision I'or the oncoming winter. This is the ;:nmer time of GcaX>cl grace. Are wo ■ iking provision for the time when the 1 .'irvcst will be pa«t and tho summer en-. ■■': in time of danger the conks, "whi i are a feeble folk," find, a place of safe: in the rocks. Are we sheltered from i.v coming st&rrr. of God's wrath, in the • ieit <>f the rock Christ Jesus? The ]ocii6t typifies the tme Christian, in that it is a complex being—it can walk and it can fly ,and it is mentioned among the creatures that are clean. The child of God is a human being, yet he hag wings—the wings of faith—by which ho can mount up and sit with Christ in heavenly places. He is also clean in God's sfiiht, being cleansed by the precious blood of Christ. ' If fund in the faith, we could be like bands of locusts, marching in solid col'i'.vn. tii:-.'-r the guidance of an unseen leador.. the foe. "Th» spider talwth hold vv'th her hands, and is in kings' palaces." Liku tho spider, man has a nature that is venomous. If we take hold of Christ, by the kind of faith, we too will dwell in the palace of the Kins;. Thesnbiect announced 1 for to-night is 'The Birth of a Nation.'