ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15578, 7 October 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST.

The monthly meeting of this order was held in tlio Victoria Hall yesterday afternoon, when Mr Burn spoke on "Consecration." Mr Bum said his subject was suggested to him by the lines of the wellknown poem "Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord, to Thee!" What a multifarious thing our life was! In making this Igrand consecration we had to remember that we did not live in the eternal alone—we were working in the world, which was transitory. Eternity was not some place where time was not. It included time. We might be living in tho eternal while the physical body'was doing its work in the world, and that was what wo wore striving to do now. "Take my hands ami let tliein move at '.lie impulse of Thy love!" In looking back on one's life one could not holp thinking that one's hands' had moved many and many a time at many another impulse than love. But if there was love in tho work, it would make one always do the best, one could. "Take mv lips and let thcrn l» filled with messages from Thee!" One might give a message from the Master in many otlur wavs than bywords of Scripture. The point was service. "Take my silver and my gold." Many gifts, made under the name of clmritv. were like throwing a bone at a dog: the gift was not made in charilv or love, but in hate. " Take my intellect!" That was the hardest gift of the present day. Intellect Wis the special phase of our time. To-dav the intellect was leading. Day by day there was some wonderful discovery made, and new heights were being reached. Intellect was the thine riiat placed 11s so far above the brute. We must take this intellect and consecrate it. Above all there was still the man himself. In the same wav as, in a locomotive running akin? the line.' the man operated the lever which turned on the steam which set the machinery in motion, even so the man in ourselves was the "will" that was driving all the nwhinorv and unlejs that was con«ecratcd there was no eonsocrjtion at all. "Take mv will and make it Thine!"