ST. MARK'S MEN'S SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1741, 5 May 1913, Page 9

ST. MARK'S MEN'S SERVICE.

At the monthly service for men. in St. Mark's Church yesterday afternoon, the Rev. C. F. Askew gave an address entitled "From God to Christ." The speaker maintained that if we believed in a Goo there -were two main facts in life separated by a gulf dividing the creature from tho Creator—God and ourselves. taking as analogy the case of an earthly lather and his child, what more reasonable than that God should wish to commaiiucatc with His children. Christianity olaims Christ as the messenger, and tho Gospol as the geodinews. Immediately, then, the question a.rose: Who was Jesus Christ r A great moral reformer? Or what He professed to be —fclte Son of God. komo asserted that tho Gospels were not trustworthv, but, unless we believed Christ s character to be that of i\ real living person, the invention of such a character was a greater miracle than tho Incarnation. The speaker instanced the character of Jeame Deans, * the creation of Scott; Rochester, t'ho creation of U Bronte; and Hamlet,: the creation of Shakespeare; and yet Christ, in originality and the wonder of Hl9 choraafcer, stood infinitely apart and above every other character which the world has ever seen. It was incredible' that the Lvan* gelists could have created tho picture of Christ. There were only two alternatives —tie was either God or not good. -Mr. I. Ferguson sang "If with all "Xour Hearts, ilr. L. Watkins presiding at the organ.