UNITED MISSION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3564, 2 July 1912, Page 7

UNITED MISSION.

OPENING SERVICE AT THE BAPTIST TABERNACLE.

“PARTNERSHIP WITH CHRIST.”

“Partnership with Josus Christ” was the subject selected by the Rev. G. C. * Grubb for the opening of the United Mission at the Baptist Tabernacle last evening. There was a good . attendance considering the wintry weather that prevailed, and the remarks of the Rev. Mr Grubb, who is a forceful speaker, were listened to with great interest. The speaker, after touching on matters mentioned in I. Corinthians, chapter 1, verses 1 to 8 took as his text verse 9, “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ Our Lord.” He explained that “fellowship” really meant “partnership” and he wanted to find out how much practical partnership they had had with Jesus Christ. It was'a very awkward thing for a young man if ’he had no calling in life, and it was important that this should be decided early, but it was more important for them to. make up their minds, as to what their calling in Christian life was to he. Were they going into partnership with Christ? There would he a great commotion in the New Zealand papers if it were announced that one of the young men in Gisborne had been taken into partnership with J. L>. Rockefeller, and he was allowed to sign cheques for the firm which would be duly honored at the bank. People would say lie was very fortunate indeed, was well provided for for life and could look the world in the face without care. That was practical partnership with the world, hut did they know what it was to be in practical partnership with Jesus Christ ? He was almost ashamed to mention the namdof Christ and Rockefeller in the same sentence. The work of the Holy Spirit, consisted in bringing them unto Christ, and when they entered into practical partnership with Him He poured into their hearts all the noble and loving He possessed and led them in paths of righteousness, no matter who they were. In Him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead, and if thev were in Him they would he filled full of righteousness. That was practical partnership with Jesus. The speaker then instanced three occasions on which Jesus took His disciples into partnership with Him—when Nicodemus called on Him by night, the ■woman at the well, and when He fed the five thousand. Satan was always trying to kill true worship. and it was possible to have a church service so beautifully organised and performed that true worship was dead. Such worshippers were not in partnership with Christ. He exhorted them all to give their souls to Christ and at once op+er into partnership with Him. j Meetings will he held every day this week (excepting Saturday) as follows :—Ladies’ Meeting Methodist Church, 3 p.m.; Children’s Service Baptist Tabernacle, 3.30 p.m.; Mission Meeting: Baptist Tabernacle, 7.30 p.m. The Rev. Mr Grubb and Mrs Grubb a*-e the guests of the Rev. F. W. Chatterton and Mrs Chatterton, and Messrs Jackson and Grant- are staying with Mr and Mrs C. Agnew-Brown.