PRESBYTERIAN RALLY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 22 May 1913, Page 3

PRESBYTERIAN RALLY.

(Contributed.) The Mission service in St. Andrews’ Hall last evening was well attended, considering the weather conditions. The subject of the address was the “Mission >of Christ to our World,” based on the words in Luke’s Gospel, “The'Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” The speaker said that the designation, ‘Son of Man,” was used in reference to Christ about thirty-eight times in the New Testament. It pointed to His human nature, as the title Son of God had reference to His Divine nature. As “Son of Man” our Lord was a true fan, possessing our nature, coming down to our human level. So He understood us, sympathised with us in sorrow, and temptation, and sin. He was clothed in flesh, as we are. He was bone of our hone, and flesh of our flesh, in all points tempted as wo are, touched with a fellow-feeling of our infirmaties.

Ho came as Son of Man to seek and save. It was well that we should sometimes think of Him as the Great Seeker of Men. The story of the woman and the lost coin “which sparkles like a diamond on the bosom of scripture,” points to Christ as seeker. D. L. Moody had said in this connection: “There is not a man or ,woman whom Ho has not sought many a time. Do you not remember how in your early cliildliood, God was seeking through your godly sainted mother or father, or Sabbath school teacher, or minister, who pleaded over you.” Lastly, Jesus came not only to seek and find, but to save. His mission was a mission of salvation. Everything appeared to be subordinated to that great end. His teaching ministry, His healing ministry, His ministry as our example, all culminate in His saving work. He was, presumably, a Saviour. The very name implied that men wore “lost.” Our Lord came to seek and save in the belief that men were “lost,” lost in sin, lost to their truer selves, lost to God and happiness. In these easy going days, when men thought of God as an indulgent deity, wiio would somehow, overlook their sins, no matter how they lived, it was wbll to remember that the Bible representation of men out of Christ was that they : 1 were, “perishing,” and without since, Ho is.the only Saviour.