THE SUNDAY CIRCLE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20828, 21 September 1929, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CIRCLE.

RELIGIOUS READING FOR THE HOME. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. ' Sunshine, and shadow falling on my way. These mark the passing of the summer day, . . . Sunshine and shadow, simple joy or woe, Fill up the. hours of my life'-below., Sometimes the- sun shines bright, and in the sky Only soft fleecy clouds go floating by! Again they/gather'darkly, and instead A raging tempest breaks upon my head. I would _ not pray the sun : might always ■ ‘shipe. Or. that no trials ever, should be mine, Biit whatever comes, yet this much would I ask. May T find■ strength to do my daily task.Sunshine -and shadow, happiness or pain, E'en when it’s dark may I not seek in . vain, ' - And when at last the eventide brings rest, Let there be light soft shining in the west. —Everett K. Smith. PRAYER. With thee, 0 God our Father, would we venture forth; in each new day, in every 'endeavour, - seeking to be led by Thee and well assured that Thou hast sumus to do - Thy will, and learn of Thee, uv all our life’s experience. Grant us foreseeing- wisdom. by. the- guidance of Thy-Holy Spirit; but endow our hearts ,with'fearlessness that we may be delivered from all sad forebodings and weak timidities, seeking ever to do Thy will as Thou hast revealed it to us. And at the end ot this, earth e venture, bring ua-home into the light and joy of Thy deaf presence and the-unclouded life of service. In the name of Christ. Amen,——lsaac Ogden Rankin. WORDS OF EXHORTATION. requiting evil with evil, nor abuse with abuse, hut, oh’ the contrary, giving a blessing in return, because a blessing is what you have been cr'ied by God to inherit. —I Peter iii, 9. Rid yourselves of all ill-will and all deceitfuness, of insincerity and envy, and ofwll evil, speaking.—l Peter ii„ 1. Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures:'for all such cravings war upon the soul.—l Peter Tv WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?' A Christian is— ■ A 'Mind—through which Christ thinks, A, Heart—through which Chfist lives. A Voice-through which Christ’ speaks. A Hand—through which. Christ helps. ; —F. A. Noble. - PSALM NINETY-ONE. ; An : Interpretation and- a Prayer.—God, Most High! we thank Thee that when uw enter into The secret of abiding an Thee through faith in Christ, we become overshadowed, by Thy comforting presence. When we trust in Thee Thou doßt become our eternal refuge. By Thine infinite wisdom Thou dost save us from the snares of our folly, and from those things that are as a deadly pestilence- to our souls. Thou dost cover us with the pinions of Thy protection, and beneath the shade of Thy kindly pro- ■ vidence we take refuge from the stormsof our tempestuous Hie. Safe-shielded by Thy love we know no fears by day or by night* we are uqat raid of the pestilence that stalketh in this world's darkness and of the destruction that would waste ug at noon-day, the noon-day of our existence. Hundreds, yea thousands, of those close to us in life fall into temptation, but the plague shall not come nigh' our dwelnug place, in Thee; neither shall evil befall us because we have-made the Most Jiisb, the risen Christ, our habitation. With our eyes we behold The wicked rewarded, but, if our ways areAvholly comg££*m£. a ‘ a ’ J bm » _ Our animal natures we'ean readily subdue and the serpent of sensuality,- we can trample under foot. Because our loveJ.U?.. l . 3 .centred- iu.Theo Thou wilt deliver u P- ' Because we revere ihy name - Thou, dost .honour us. When unto u? h £!> trotiWe Thou dost answer ua with Thine omnipotence; Thou dost satisfy us with Thy life abundantly. and show us. Thy salvation., V. . v OVER THE AIR. n A lifeless operator, a youth from New Orleans, _ having read f the 23rd Psalm, and having mo. business to transact, suddemy thought he would send the psalm out over the. water.: M he issued the last - word ,10 ships- sent a wireless -Amen/ FIVE WORKS OF GOD. Five Wondrous Works of God I bless rLI/ ] T orlfy wlt T h r Traukfulness., Christ Jesus, on Hts Mother’s Breast, A \ irgin; Undefiled and Blest. : ' Je A US bun S on-Calvary’s Rood, ■ e fldfug for us His Precious Blood. Lhrl Tlirone* US ° n tbe Great : White and 'Angels■•shown. Cmiet Jesus m the Sacrament, His Aew- Undying Testament.. ’ A, nd ; Jast. of. all, the Mystery, That. Christ, my Lord, should dwell in me. 8,, in Church Times, I SAW GOD By Barbara Koch-Harbert. ThT^ f ia , the 6tUrry hyacinth And 0n 'tender, plinth. ’ A d in pine- 8 ° n th ® mouatai ? steeped fSi a Hsf' u vW Hnet saw Him in the silver winded falls A feltGo t fMn U M iP i r 'V th P ur ..balls.' In siintof i be lovel y e'ofious things; ' lingf C ° ° Urs and - in Child that ! , to< ? , ia a dirty hut: : LEARNING AND EVANGELISM. so^frSnH 13 f ree Church colleges, come ;? . r . e 9 ue ?tly ■from tliose who - recard it their, business to defend. what thly Cohsider to be the faith, once delivered to Dr e n^ S ’ a V he "cent testimony of Dr Dmsdale T. Young is very refreshing It preposterous; notion that increase fL. le ?™ u S means, less evangelistic fervour,” he says, “and I am increasinHv now ” WMi tna i m^eSt -V* tbc colleges than * i.i ,v .be might not agree with the bll - h every one of the tutofs dhi L r ”, Cfile y an colleges' believed, he did believe that on all the crcaf foundaniVd' doctrines they were altogether right, the men 18 ln d fb V,r ' S n <;lleir convict i° n s into ,D the colleges.. . “When an old h/nddld e » mysolf Ea s; s a thing like that.” hinc hvii ,7 ou T ™ a y be there issomet fl ” !t ' J fc , 18 to. be hoped, however, that this great-hearted preacher whose don-//; ;! e,i f U ™ maa -v uitra-oitho-becomo susSt ’ ™ ay not himself-. noW ( OPEN-AIR • PREACHING. Something like an arrest in'-evangelism Rev* 1 ? vrns/ ’- n flmitted by the at t,le Wesleyan Com f l 16 P rcsc u J ed a signifienut report from a committee- oji Home tl ?nkin/ at!on ‘ • T / e -Church,'he saioU s thinking more in terms, of worshin than of evangelisation,.and. there'is- a wonder;l£ Ke "M he r^ Xt was nmceefni T h< : floctrine of substitution at one t-m ‘V hands of the preacher at one time, hut the awakening is not accomplished in the same way'now.” It was no' n / U - V e y ide , nt tl,at ‘he outsider A\as no longer touched in anv numbers by special missions,” and the methods of calculating results and- 0 f dealing with inqu.nes caused dissatisfaction. Mr tviseman expresßod the opinion that-one of The battles that They would have to fight in the next 2o years, and one of thedifficulties the preacher would have To face, would be due not ■to psychology, nut. to the bad inferences' drawn from psychology. The general conviction of t “® " cslevan Home Evangelisation Committtee is that to reach the masses of the peoplc > the chief and -sometimes the only way is by open-air preaching.