THE GIVING OF GOD.
I "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. ...” Love and God are synonymous terms; for love is of God and God is love. The sublimest attribute of love is seen in giving, and in the manner of the giving. Love gives freely, without stint and without counting the cost. Christmas commemorates the giving by God the Father of Heaven's Best for earth’s worst. None could ever be bom under humbler circumstances than when, in the fulness of time, God sent forth His Son bom of Mary in the Bethlehem stable and cradled in a manger. God is His love ever comes to our lowest that He might raise us to His highest. We often say that God |i helps those who help themselves. The essential significance of the Incarna- | tion is that God helps those who can’t help themselves. Oh, that men would fl realise their need of Him and His willingness to meet their need! Such a H realisation would mean a happy Christmas in deed and in truth. —Rev. H. G. Goring, Ingestre St. Baptist. I I
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 303, 23 December 1933, Page 1 (Supplement)
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