SUNDAY CIRCLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 2

SUNDAY CIRCLE

SLACKEN NO SAIL Slacken no sail, brother. At inlet or island; Straight by the compass steer, Straight for the highland. Set thy sail carefully. Darkness is round thee; Steer thy course steadily. Quicksands may ground thee. Fear not the darkness. Dread not the night; God's word is thy compass. Christ is thy light. Crowd all thy canvas on, Out through the foam! It soon will t-? morning. And heaven be thy home. PRAYER Oh. Lord, we desire that our hearts should* be the fruitful soil in which the good seed of Thy Kingdom may flourish and bear fruit to Thine honour and glory. May the fruit of righteousness be witness to the world that we are Thine, and that Thy good spirit dwells within us. The evil one would sow the seeds of sin in our hearts, and sin would yield the fruits of discontent, uncharitableness. avarice selfishness hatred and malice. Then would our I'ves become to us trouble and sorrow, for, being evil, we should soon be cut down and wither like the green herb. But the seed of Thv sowing yields righteousness, peace, love and joy, fruits that endure for ever. Let outlives bear this everlasting fruit for Thy Name's sake. Amen.

CAN YOU ANSWER THESE? Who spoke/the following words, and on what occasions?. 1. "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufneeth us." ' 2. "With whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?" 3. " If Thou, being a Jew, livest after the 'manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest Thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 4. "What is sweeter than honey.' And what is stronger than a lion? " 5. " We have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world." , „. „ , „ 6. "Strong is Thy dwelling-place, and Thou puttest Thy nest in a rock. PEACE MUST CONQUER

Writing in the International Review of Missions. Dr K. S, Latourette discusses the bearing of world-wide Christian enterprise upon world peace. He points out that the Christian Gospel has now extended to practically every nation and tribe of mankind, and that Christianity claims as its central figureOne whom it denominates the Prince of Peace, with the stories of whose birtn is associated a song of the angels proclaiming peace on earth. "Following in the footsteps of its Founder, it. extol.*: an active love of man for man. Embedded in its beatitudes is praise of 'he peacemakers. In its standard nrayer it conditions the forgiveness of God upon the forgiveness of those who use the prayer of those who have done them wrong." At the same time, it is pointed out that ours is -an age in which all civilisation is threatened as never before by the destruction of impending war; and Dr Latourette inouires whether we can look with hope upon the Christian enterprise" as a means of deliverance from this seemingly imminent world-wide doom. He supplies the answer to his own question in the concluding paragraph of Ins article: " It is the Christian Faith that, through the stream which proceeds from the prophets and the Christ. God Himself is at work and that He will not be defeated. We ourselves shall probably not live to see the fulfilment of our hopes, but if we place ourselves in that stream, our best inspirations like those of the prophets before Us. even though they mav not come to fruition in Ways which we had anticipated, will be fulfilled in far ampler measure than we had dared to dream We serve One who is able to do abundantly more than we can ask or even think and eventually He must win."

LUDHIANA WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE

Forty-five years ago Dr Edith Erown (now Dame Edith Brown) inaugurated a work designed to equip Indian women as doctors, nurses and midwives, to minister physically and spiritually to their suffering fellow-country-woirfen—the Women's Christian Medical College at Ludhiana. Punjab. In those 45 years the college has trained 360 doctors. 150 dispensers. 230 nurses and over 280 midwives. of whom the majority are to-day scattered in all parts of India, reaching an aggregate of some 3,000,000 women each year. The college started work in an old school-house. with four medical students and two student dispensers. To-day the 300 studendKs are adequately housed in extensive college buildings covering 15 acres of ground, and there is a hospital with 260 beds, and an outpatients' department with an average daily attendance of 275 women and children. That the Ludhiana eraduates attain a high standard of medical proficiency is evident in the fact that six have been accented as full missionaries bv the societies with which they are working: seven have been awarded the Kaisar-i-Hlnd medal for public service; and another has gained the honour of being the first Indian woman in the Madras Presidency to become medical superintendent of a hospital with a European staff. A DRYING RAIN - Ezra, who contributes to the Methodist Recorder, has a certain acquaintance whom he calls Jim. a man with a dry humour. On a very wet day when Jim was going with his dog to move some sheen to a new pasture he met the vjcar and opened a short chat with "A very wetting rain, sir." "So it is. James." said the vicar, adding quizzically, "but did you ever hear of a drying rain? " "Aye," said Jim. " and so have vou. sir—yon day when the Lord reined fire an' brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah."

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES "Matter" is the subject of the les-son-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, to-morrow. The golden text is: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal (Matthew 6:19). Among, the citations which comprise the lesson-sermon is the following from the Bible: "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live" (Romans 8:13). The lesson-sermon also contains the following passage from the Christian Science text book. " Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Spirit and matter no more commingle than light and darkness. When one appears, the other disappears."