Feilding WesJeyan Church

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 7, 16 July 1891, Page 3

Feilding WesJeyan Church

: [Communicated.] .Lalst ' Sunday morning Mr G. Grant preached in the above church to a large ■congregation, 'his subject was " Christian jSrotiV'teati Mat. XI, 27-30. Mr Grant said that the yalue of a promise depends "upon two conditions : .first, the need of the promise ; second, the ability of him j who makes the promise; to fulfil it. Now, | the very first thing we notice ia that Christ claims to have infiniate authority, lie says all things are his, he is himself the secondary wd head, and the gospel positional this moment is : Christhasgone up on high, having led Captivity captive, to bestow gifts upon men. It isvery sfcrik; ing when we first receive this truth, thai j Christ is the absolute owner of all things ,j the same phrisr who f said: "The foxes! lay c holes; arid ike birds of the air have j nests, but the Son of Man hath hot where to lay his iead^ AslDean North very; beautifully expressed it : " When Christ «ame into the world he was like the owner -pf a palace passing through the ruins of his former mansion. He^ays: "No man inoweth the. Son butjthe Father." Mr Arrant said it seemedj to him we were! looking on Christ as tbe people looked on him long ago when they said: " Is not this the carpenter's son, are not his brethren •with ua.'' The whole pendency is to rob Christ oflhis infinite inysteriousness, and laving dqne that we 3ose all the reverence we ought to eheiishj the very purpose of Christ was $o bring men nigh unto God, but let us not forget that Jesus said aio man knoweth the SonTmt the Father. "We look oh the outward countenance and •we think we know all^bnt we know not «ach other; and how shall we know the eternal ' Son of God. - The next thing •Clirist claims is his own infinite knowledge, he claims to know what no one olse can know. It is very striking that •Christ, who was sometimes taunted with limitation of his knowledge by his enemies in this world, should be the one who 3mew God ; let us remember that Christ Avho invites us to receive rest is the one alone, who, in all the uniyerse, knows God and has the right to say what God does, and what God purposes ; the Father sheds forth a knowledge of himself through Christ., Now we are ready for the promise, he who makes it is one who las infinite knowledge and. infinite authority, he says: " Come unto me and I will give you rest." There is something strange about our" deep-seated need which everyone feels to localise God. The poor heathen who, pulling out his talisman iom his bosom, shows: the need there is to have a God nigh at hand; we want one who is near, and Jesus says : " Come to me." God has recognised this need of our nature, for he has constantly adapted himself to it. He gave his people in the •wilderness a Pillar of Cloud, then the Shekina in the Tabernacle, and the Shekina gave place to: the Temple, and now he has, as it were, represented himself in human flesh, a nature' that is like ours. He, who was the brightness of his Father's glory, hath revealed him unto Tis ; now you can understand what God is ; he had no shape in our hearts until Jesus came, and how he says : " Come xmto me ;" the word " come "we might «peak of as one of the most beautiful in the Gospel ; and the Gospel " believe " means " by leave, to live by," this seems the more simple of the two. As a shout ■echoes ia the mountains, so is the Gospel <jall " come," it seems to pass from page to page of the Bible till we hear at the end : " Let whosoever will may come and , take the water of life finely." Who are to come? All ye tht* labor and are heavy laden. Being heavy laden means carrying more than we can bear ; for instance, imagination comes and says : '• Oh, to-morrow, what's going to happen to-morrow ;" memory goes to work and says : " What folly was that of yesterday," and so add 3 to. the load. We ought to have rest, andrest we may have, sweeter than sleep, we have nothing more to do than give all our toils to Christ, • land Him over to-morrow, let Him keep it ; give Him yesterday, He'll take care of it. Would you do life's battle well, accept the invitation of Christ : '" Come xinto me and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light "

Hamlet : " The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold." Hobatio :"It is nipping and an eager air, my Lord." (Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1.) As in the time of the Eoyal Dane and courtly Horatio, so lately, to use a very common expression, the weather has been "bitterly cold." Tor the present wintry temperature we have imported thousands of yards of the T>est makes in Flannels and bales upon bales of superior Blankets at Te Aro House, Wellington. As orders sometimes come addressed to those in our employ, it is> particularly requested that to avoid dela\ all orders and letters on business should be addressed solely to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. OUB.usual stock of Blankets is between €00 and 700 pairs in the English and Colonial makes, we buy at first band from British manufacturers and from the best Colonial mills. The superior value •we give is not excelled by any house in the Colony, our prices range from 6/11 to 60/- per pair, according to size and quality at Te Aro Houss, Wellington. OF flannels we nave a stock- of 20, 000 (twenty thousand) yards in the best Eng lish and Colonial makes; in White, Sh«t land, Orkney, Scarlet, and Fancy Colors aid the prices ransal^£n ,.Jj| to 3=j per yard ■;.. it T$ Aro HousevWeHmgton, (For Continuation <^Sea3mg Matter see