BEAUTY OF WORK IS SUBJECT OF SERMON BY MISS JENNIE STREET.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 7

BEAUTY OF WORK IS SUBJECT OF SERMON BY MISS JENNIE STREET.

A plea for the adoption of the Christian Endeavour idea by the people of Christchurch was made by Miss Jennie Street in a sennon at the Trinity Congregational Church last evening. Taking as her text the words, “ See my hands” (Luke 24, 39) she stressed the beaut\’' which hands gained from hard work. Often, she said, women were ashamed of their work-scarred hands. There was no need for this shame if the work which disfigured them was of benefit to the rest of mankind. There were some people who were not ashamed to use their hands, but yet used them only for their own enrichment or for other selfish motives. She appealed to her audience not to use their hands in this way, but in the world’s and the Saviour’s service. There was in London in Bayswater Road, opposite Hyde Park, a little chapel which had been dedicated for use as a sanctuary to which a person might go for quiet pra\*er. The place had just been an ordinary house until one dav, many years ago, an artist found it. He devoted the remaining years of his life to the work of painting and decorating it and now the place stood, a monument to the service which he had given. Miss Street appealed particularly to the children in the congregation not to think of work as a degrading, tiresome, thing, but as something in the doing of which they would be serving not only mankind, but also Christ.