A MIGHTY SERMON
Ono of the most moving sermons of our generation was preaehed some .tirne ago in Aberdeen by Dr. Gossip, a powerful Scotch minister. His wife had died without warning and one of the loveliest of homes had been broken up with terrifie suddemiess. Taking for the subjeet of his next sermon, "But When Life Tumbles In, What Then?" he made an affirmation of faith whieh shook Aberdeen and whieh even in cold . print cannot be read now and soon forgotten. Of course that man prayed, but evidently it was' the kind of praying whieh held at the centre of his thought not so mueh his trouble as his faith, whieh threw around and over and underneath his trouble great convictions as though like the psalraist he too were saying to God, "Though I walk through the shadow of death I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Try rod and Thy staff they comfort me." And so powerful is such affirmatory prayer that he could end his sermon to his people by quoting Hopeful from "The Pilgrim's Progress," half way through the last dark river, calling baek to his friend, "Be of good cheer, my brother, for I feel the bottom, and it is sound. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 12
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