BROADWAY TENT MISSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 8

BROADWAY TENT MISSION.

Successful meetings continue at tho big marquee in Broadway. Many are speaking of tho help of the mission as lives are definitely being influenced. A large company of women gathered in tho Salvation Army Citadel yesterday afternoon when Mr Harry Dawson, the inter-denominational evangelist, spoke on "Women’s Worries.” The subject of the address last night was “Victory.” The speaker took for his text 1 Cor. 15,57“ Thanks be to God Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The very mention of the word victory seems to remind us of some great achievement, said Mr Dawson. Christ purchased our victory on the Cross. Quite a lot of people, regard the sacrificial death of Christ for us as something distressingly odd—something wildly eccentric, when .one could quote 500 cases of sacrifice of one on behalf of another. Our Lord Jesus Christ not only laid down His life for His friends, but died for His enemies. The Apostle describes victory as a gift. There arc two parties to a gift. There is tho giver and the receiver. God is offering His victory, but no life can be victorious unless God’s offer of salvation is definitely appropriated. God gives victory over Satan. While our lord was being crucified the whole world was plunged into darkness for three hours. During that three hours Jesus Christ wrestled with tho powers of darkness. When He cried ‘lt is finished ’ He really meant He hod triumphed over Satan and gained the victory for us by His blood. God gives victory over sin. Just as when you throw anything into the air there is a force of gravitation that immediatelv pulls it down to the earth, so there is a corresonding moral gravitation. God gives victory over sorrow. There is a sorrow sometimes permitted by God and by which He moulds us. and there is another typo of sorrow which is entirely the fruits of our wrong doing—the harvest of what, we have sown. God also gives victory over death. “Receive God’s gift of salvation, and you will be victorious over Sata/n—----over sin—over sorrow —over death,” tho speaker concluded. The Salvation Army Band played several pieces both inside and outside the tent. Ensign Thorne again conducted the community singing, Mrs Dawson sang, and Mrs Prince accompanied on tho piano.