TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 30, Issue 5, 1 July 1939, Page 4

TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE

The practice of looking up the definitions of quite common words is a very useful one and if we look up the Oxford Dictionary we find the definition of "to teach" as follows:—"To enable or cause a person to do by instruction and training." The Church is a living and growing organism and communion of fellowship. The Church has lived for 19 centuries and has gathered experience of the work of God upon the souls of men. There have been periods of indifference, periods of fervour and the Church has continued to gather experience. The experience of the Church is the growth and development of human nature which results from faithful obedience to and communion with Our Lord. There is then, a real treasury of knowledge gained through the ages upon which each generation may draw. It is a drawing upon the memory which we call history, to help to form resolutions with regard to present problems. The members of the church m each age have the treasure of the past to which they succeed. They are debtors to the past and can only pay their debt by so living and working that they build for the future. It is the business of the Church to proclaim and practice the abiding truth m Christ Jesus and it is this living truth to which expression is given m what is known as "Church Teaching." Its aim is. to train and enable souls to really make the choice Our Lord wants from us: — "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness."— S.F.N.W.