WHAT IS A SAINT?

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1936, Page 9

WHAT IS A SAINT?

JOY OF WINNING THROUGH. LONDON, April 8. The Archdeacon of Warwick preached his farewell sermon in the parish church, Stratford-on-Avon, on Sunday. “My last word,” he said,* “is just this: Do let us be honest ami cither chuck Christianity altogether or go forward pn the great adventure and discover the sure joy "f winning through in the most thrilling and exciting enterprise that human life- can offor.”

! “The other day,” remark .*1 the Bishop-elect of Wellington, “J saw a . defmilion of saints which made me feel that the thing 1 want to do in life ■ ti-.: to try to become a saint, on those J lines. ‘They were saints,’ it was ’ I said, '‘because they w*re cheerful j’when it was difficult to be cheerful; J patient when it was difficult to be patient; because they pushed on when ’’they wanted to stand Still; kept silent

when they warned (<• talk; andTVei’3 agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable.’ “That is the secret which Christ, offered to those young lads and girls this afternoon when the bishop’s hands were laid upon them —the secret of living this new life, of winning through in this great advent are. If they and we together can only live in the light and strength of that, and prove it. to be possible, what a wonderful transformation it would make in our family and business lil’3! Most of us IiVC bur I lives along the lines of what we Want. Ito do; not along the lines of what Christ wants us to do.”