COMMUNION SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 162, 5 April 1920, Page 5

COMMUNION SERVICE

• :— . ■ "A united Communion service of tho asociated Churches of Christ was held vesterdav. The chair i was occupied by tho well-known South' Australian M.P., Mr. Morrow;. The president said it gave him great joy to be present with them in conference, but especially 'to ioin with them in the Lord's Supper. After n few introductory thoughts, tho emblems were passed around. The'Lord,'s Supper was concluded by the hymn, "Low in tho-Grave He Lay." The sermon was delivered by Mr. Ralph Gebbie, 8.A.. of Aucklnnd. He based his mes-sni-o on the passionate statement of Moses: "Would to God- that all the Lord's people wore prophets." Mr. Gebbie showed that the prophet of olden times was one who was a man of God, one who was near to God in his lifo,' He pleaded with the members of tho Churches of Christ that they should bo men and women who were consecrated to God. interpreters of Christ in their lives. He pleaded that they should be men and women who would open their eves and see. Visions and dreams of the last ten years in connection with their work were now "facts." They must "go forward." The man who will sing the song in the land of Canaan will bo the man who has sung the song of the liiinib in the desert.' The service closed with the singing of Francis Ridley Hnrrigal's "Consecration Hymn" and the Benediction.