Pulpit Messages Chritianity and Life

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22570, 25 February 1948, Page 3

Pulpit Messages Chritianity and Life

i (Contributed by Ministers’ Association.) j ’•

text | "The Harvest truly is great but ! the labourers are few.” There is urgent need for workers; alas there ; are many shirkers, Character in Faces | "The lace l- tnc index to character and personality.'' said Major E. R. Elliott at the Salvation Army, Gisborne, 1 a recent Sunday morning." I wonder we reflect the light of the knowledge ...t the glory of God, the face of Jesus Christ. It ought to be so. The late Dr. i Morrison of Glasgow was passing 1 through the ward of the hospital and he stopped at the bed of a little fellow who had jjust been carried in from an i accident, lie took the child's hand and i prayed and then passed on. The boy. i with wide open eyes, asked, when he I was gone: 'Was yon bonnie man Jesus?’ ' The light of the knowledge of {lie glory iof Christ shone in the face of Dr. | Morrison. i “There is in America a picture of the ! Constitution skilfully made. Looked at 1 closely it. is but a piece of writing. : Viewed at a distance, the face of 1 George Washington looms up in the j middle of it. brought out by the shading ■of the letters. And 'so it is: Peter. 1 James and John, are but Peter, Janies and John, but shining through, j the weatherbeaten faces of these fiishermcn. can be seen the face of Jesus, tiie j Lord Jesus Christ—the light of the knowledge of the glory of lho Lord " Jesus shining through the faces of the disciples Yes. we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the excellency of the power may be of God and not of out selves.” None Other Like Him j Christ. Who is the bread of Life, > began Ilis ministry hungering. He, Who i is the Water of Life, ended His ministry I thirsting. Christ hungered as man, and fed the hungry as God. He was weary, j and yet He is our rest. He paid tribute yet lie is the King. -He was called a devil, yet He cast out devils. lie prayed, yet He hears prayers. He wept, yet He dries our tears. He was sold tor 30 pieces of silver .and redeemed the world. He was led as a lamb to the I slaughter, and He is the Good Shop | herd. He died, and gave Ilis life and 1 by dying destroyed death. News and Notes Miss Wyn Bugden left on Tuesday morning to enter the Salvation Army Training College, Aro street, Wellington to commence training for officership. She is one of 15 whose term begins on Thursday. February 2(5. Harvest Thanksgiving services are the order of the day and on Sunday next Maior L. J. Lindsay, from Wellington, will conduct the meetings in the Salvation Army when during the afternoon a special Thanksgiving and praise meetting will be conducted for the young people to celebrate the lifting of restrictions. "Lord, make me free from fear of the future, from anxiety of the morrow, from bitterness toward anyone, from cowardice in the face of danger, from failure before opportunity, from laziness in face of work."