FROM OUR VICE-PRESIDENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 40, Issue 477, 18 June 1935, Page 3

FROM OUR VICE-PRESIDENT.

!i. :ii White kiidion Sisters, - (Mir Editor has very K1 11 «11> Minne-sltu that I might like to semi you a short message ?»«-r medium of tin- White K. - Ihmi. In the first place, 1 am deeply .sensible of the meat honour you have .lone me in electing me Vice-President of the NV.r.T.r. in NZ. I am even more conscious of how difTicult it will be to adequately till a post which has been so ably filled by others of our great movement. Indeed, I could not have thought of accepting nomination had :• not lieen for the knowledge that one > entitled to claim from our lord and header, guidance and strength for our every task. As one grows older one realises that th< fight for a newer and bettor order of things is long, and at times wearisome. The golden .beams of * .nr youth fade, and the goal seems very far away. I think this thought must have tieen in John Runyan's mind when he picticured the pilgrims in Itoubting Cast' . feeling themselves bested in the fig! t and forgotten of (»od. Now you r* - memlier when things seemed at the’r worst, Christian hurst out with the cr 1 . “What n fool I am. for 1 have in m> l .east a key called Promise which wifi open the door of the castle. I»ear sisters, I pam the message on to you. for surely every one of us carries this key—the key of all the wonderful promises of (»od even if we forget to use it sometimes, latter or, Bunyan draws a picture of Christian and Hopeful near their journey's end: they are crossing the river and find it very deep; in this last trouble tlie\ at* like to be submerged, hut again, when Ihings seein to lie at their very wop-t. Hopeful sees the gate of the city. And so. sisters, let us have courage, the road is rough and the way is dark, but if we keep the key of Promise ewr at hand, there will, in His time, come to us the. sight of the open gate «>1 the Kingdom of Clod. Yours in loving service. MARY PATERSON