A SQUARE DEAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10054, 15 February 1927, Page 3

A SQUARE DEAL.

REED ()l U BODIES. _—lt — ' •‘AND STAIRVK OUR SOULS. At the Temiiba' " Presbyterian' Church on Sunday morning -lir the course of a striking sermon the Rev: H. R. Fell said a certain adherant, in a certain church, said to the preacher Whom he met in the midweek following; “There , was, some ‘nip’ in your sermon, on Sunday! If' there ’ud been a little more it would a been a bite.” The striking' phrases employed in the sermon w ( ere inflected . with such solicitude that the impression given was that of a strong “grip”., rather than a “bile” The preacher said IMatthew XXII V2l ‘'Render to Caesar the things that belong;, to Caesar and to God the things; that belong to God” was the equivalent of “give to man, and to God, ‘A Square Deal.’ ” The preacher proceeded to say that present day customs made . it. hard to hold the balances justly In a due application of right and wrong. Assent. is. often given, in the, .mind, to certain things that matter in relation lo ■ (Christian- faith,, hut in practice the conduct is- not a square deal, The lack of a square deal in all things-..that matter lies at the root of -all the troubles in , the world and the 'Christian church today. ! The troubles in, the labour world were directly traceable to this lack. Henry Ford, who is regarded as the marvelj of the age' in the world of economics, and who has refused the offer to purchase his business at a sum qf one hundred million dollars, attributed his wonderful success to .The men who istood--loui. square with him in the days of small 'things'. Henry Ford: is ,a witness to the' world of.-:,the -immense ■ importance', of a square 'deal. Personally, said the preacher, are- we giving ourselves a ■ square ■deal when we feed o.ur .body, and starve our soul? The preacher did not shirk responsibility in. Hie matter of the pulpit giving a' square deal to the congregation; a section of • the sermon that: bristled with, some; gripping, phrases. It ' . was ■therefore to he expected that,forceful phrases would he employed in dealing with ; matters'wherein the .-square deal fails on. the part, of the congregation' in all the details qf .Christian- 'responsibility. The preacher drove home some striking phrases, in relation. lo our responsibility to the 'Christians in 'China,' more particularly. w.lieii be, said that among the sisters and brethren, in this hour of sore trial . there is Frank Wilkinson, a missionary , ok the church who only. a short time ago ''.ministered in ' t-be Temuka congregation,', who with hundreds of others were in peril of their lives—-a matter with them of. no great .importance—who did not know whether their life’s wdrk would not he swept away, and if not, whether they, would ever be able to. take it up where they bail been forced to lay It down, Do we believe in.- the power and efficacy of prayer;?”, asked the preacher; Are we giving them a square deal in our prayers? The preacher concluded a powerful address by urging the members, of the Church to give the whole .of the Tenluka 'district a square Meal by living up lo the purpose for,wblclu'tliey liave''beeii called in the Christian Faith.