PREACHER'S DREAM.
AN UNBROKEN FRONT.
SERVICE AND UNSELFISHNESS*
Preaching from the text, " Instead of? the thorn shall come up the fir tree," 1 Archdeacon Charlton, in a recent sermon, at Chatswood, Sydney, said that in Isaiah's prophecy the thorn was used as a symbol of all that was destructive of happiness, and the fir tree as the harbinger of better times. The fir tree was the destroyer of all thorns, including the thorn of strife. Strife of every kind was productive of nothing but waste. After mentioning the case of a British regiment, all the men of which, v. hon asked to volunteer for a dangerous undertaking, volunteered by taking one step forward out of the ranks, and taus piesented a still unbroken front, the preacher said: "I see a vision, though I am no visionary; I dream a dream, though i. am no dfeamer. Sly dream is of a church like that British regiment. Ood giant that our church may be that cjmrch, and that instead of the thorn of discord there will spring into being the fir tree, which is symbolic of service and unselfishness."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 15
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187PREACHER'S DREAM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 15
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