VALLANCE COOK MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1802, 15 July 1913, Page 2

VALLANCE COOK MISSION.

Tho first week-night meeting of tho mission being conducted in the Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, by tho Rev. Vnllance Cook, was hold last evening. Thero was a fair attendance. Tho missioner delivered an address based on the story of tho barren fig tree, contained in I«uko 13. There were three lessons, lie said, to bo drawn from tho parable. The first was that God expected us to bear fruit, as tho owner of the vineyard had looked for fruit on his fig tree, llan did not corao into the world in a haphazard fashion. He was put hero for some useful purpose, and ho had certain duties to perform—duties to God and to mankind. It wins not necessary to a man's salvation that he should be merely moral, respectable, generous, or philanthropic. People often had ulterior motives for the exhibition of theso virtues. Unless the Spirit of God was in a man's heart, ho' was not performing tho duties for which ho was placed on earth, and ho was not bearing good fruit. Tho second lesson was that expectation was according to privilege. More. was expected of peoplo who had big opportunities than of those who had only minor talents or small chances. Let them see that tliey did not allow others less favourably situated to outstrip t)iem in .thpir work . for God. Lastly, tho parable taught thnt if God came repeatedly to a man looking for fruit, it was because fruit should be there. If they wero not bearing fruit, it was becauso they had not sought from God by prayer the power ,to bear, the, fruit,

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