ALL MEN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 54, Issue 32627, 28 September 1945, Page 5

ALL MEN

CALLED TO REPENT ~, ■ id AND REPENT NOW “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, ‘Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions', I found an altar with this inscription!, ‘To the unknown God.’ Whom then ye ignorantly worship, Him declare .1 unto you.’ God that made, the world, and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with- men’s hands', as though he needed any thing, seeing that he giveth to all life, and breath to all things. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, k and the bounds’ of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and 1 find Him, though He be not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also.of your -own- poets l have 'said, for we are also His offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring . of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold 1 or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

“ And the times of this x ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent; because He hath appointed a day, in he will judge- the world in- righteousness by that Mian Whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead.” (Acts 17).—P.8.A.