The Sabbatb

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18986, 1 July 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

The Sabbatb

A PRAYER. We pray Thee, Lord, for eyes to see, That all the wonder and the dear Sweet mystery 'Of dawn and sunset, and the clear Star-Jewelled sky may never be Just morning, evening, midnight, three Most common things, that make a oommon year. For ears to hear, 0 Lord, we pray, That all tho sweet bird melodies, And little gay Soft wings that waken in the trees, Such tunes as fairy folk might play, Fall not on deaf ears, and wc say They arc but singing birds and sighing breeze. K. Ford.

CHRIST REVEALS GOD. “Christ is the answer to man’s eternal question, ‘What is God?’ and ‘What is man?' We all know that God cannot be explained in concept or argument, and can only say that deep in every man’s heart lies a belief in a supreme being. Nor do we know any more about ourselves. We puzzle over our personalities—we spend a great deal of time on psychoanalysis; we don’t know what we want and won’t be happy till we get. It. Thus we know next lo nothing about either man or God. I believe that Christ is the answer to both these questions. In looking at Jesus, wc know what man Is and can be if lie lives up lo his capabilities, and through Jesus' spiritual self God is revealed to us. I base my decision on Christ’s relationship to the disciples—because lie appeared to the mas both man and God. He can also mean the same lo all men of all ages. I cite the faith on which Christianity is founded. The main factor that has sustained Christianity as the greatest religion of the world is that man receives help from Jesus to live a Christian life —lie comforts us and makes the burden lighter. If He were only a man this would be impossible, but wc cau talk to Him as L cue Who hears,’’-

FRAY SOMEHOW. Very often we know not what to ask; and yet it Is right to ask. It is right to pray for forgiveness; it is right to pray for grace; it is right to pray for glory. Pray for these things as you can—ignorantly if ignorantly, anyhow if only somehow. It is a good thing to be on your knees before •Christ for any purpose, with any hope, with any prayer. If you only come to Him, He will do the rest; yes, and the very coming to Him is of Him. Yield yourselves to Ilis call, to Hi 3 influence, to Ilis drawing; and what you arc not now, and what you know not now, you shall he, you shall know hereafter. —Ur. C. J. Vaughan. TRUTH AND DUTY. Phillips Brooks said: “The Word of God includes two notions, one of revelation and one of commandment. Whenever God speaks by any of Ilis voices, it is first to tell us some truth which we did not know before, and second to bid us do something which we have not been doing. Every word of God Includes these two. Truth and duty are always wedded. There is no truth which has not its corresponding duty, and there is no duly which has not its corresponding truth. . . . When every truth is rounded into its duty, and every duty Is deepened Into its truth, then wo shall have a clearness and consistency and permanence of moral life which we hardly dream of now.”

FRAGRANT BEAUTY. If we do faithfully the few things that we can do; if we cultivate carefully Hie (lowers of love and duty and service that wc have room for in our lives —be sure they will 1)11 our lives and the lives of those around us with fragrant beauty. FLOWERS, STARS, CHILDREN. When God has a prairie tie sprinkles it with (lowers; when lie lias a sky lie slmls il with stars; and when He has a city lie Alls it with Ills chilclrca-