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THE GOSPEL.

ADDRESS BY BISHOP WEST-WATSON.

• Preaching at the Cathedral last even-ing/the-Bishop of 'Christchurch gavo tie first of a series of Lenten lectures on "The Gospel and Gospels." J*l have chosen the title for-my. lectures this Lent/' /saitt the- I Bishoj>, "because, while I -want to jfcalk to yon about t&e.,thr4e first, Gospels, .HatthewJMark, .want' you jbpjfalisbjftbove, is not any book or collection of booXs, Him aimsa^, Whep to or are arf^wsa,' and listeft.not conscious s# [ often c|4&|['shaTp between : ecclesi&nical intercstipo-day and thif the Testament#, the Gbipols," continued the- Bisgiqk ' not sometimes 'waenioliave ro«4 an able discusJgion or Incited to an;,eager dispute on 'religiobiywSfters, ask« 3 yourself, 'What I has all tbjsvto do with the message of ! Christ, \the,*good neys of the Gospel!' So agaißvAnd again we need to turn back'to the Gospels to become'disciples, to become little children, to - hear " and »to learJi, and i to 1 wonder, and to recajp'.tpre pne rapture ;of iaithi 'a > 11 ! 't •" J t "Some people, I believe, argue even as things are, that our Lord is a myth; that He never really lived. Without the Gospels ,they, might perhaps make 'ont* something of 'a case that He was djt'lr - an' 'ideal,' 1 clffthed by" men with 'special qualities., ■ But with the Gospels before us we are anchored firmly to actual facts. Our creeds insist on those historical' facts. He really lived a human life, really suffered, really died on an, actual date. Unless " our faith is well anchored in the Gospel atory, we are apt to lose the temper and the spirit of our Lord. " While there were only four Gospels, said the Bishop, 'there were considerable differences between them. ot. John's Btood by itself. It,-wafr not so much, a biography as a spiritual interpretation of the meaning of-our Lord 's :deeds<-and words. Against St. John stood the other three Gospels, witli their strange likenesses and differences, jtfhich were one of the great Bible problems scholars had been trying to unjave? for the last century The Bishop concluded his termon by speaking briefly on the spirit and attitude of a Gospel writer.

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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 9

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THE GOSPEL. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 9

THE GOSPEL. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 9

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