Sunday Column.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 February 1913, Page 4

Sunday Column.

. 0 THE POWER OF DIVINE LOVE. j (By Rev. J. K. Maclntyro.) AVliilo "the Gospel is tho power of God unto salvation to every ono that bolicveth" it also brings with it the power of Divine love—tho same love that devised and sent tho Gospol. Let mo give a pathetic illustration of this. Years ago, after preaching in a Baptist Church in Newtown, Sydney, tho then pastor, llov. Collor, pointed out to me a young man of his congregation, who was a power for good among tho young people of his church. This young Christian's parents lived in Brisbane. He had conio to Sydney to push his way, and had saved a little money. A man named Butler somehow got acquainted with him, represented himself as a practical miner, told tho young man that ho knew where gold could be got for tho digging of it, and, in short, induced him to become his partner. Butler then accompanied the young man to a somewhat lonely place in tho country, set him to dig a hole, and when his hack was turned, killed him with a. heavy implement, taking his money, and burying him on tho spot. Little did the unsuspecting victim imagine that he was digging his own gravo. Butler then proceeded to Newcastle, and shipped as a seaman on board of a vessel bound for San Francisco. But, as a poet has Baid: "Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth should hide them From men's ©yes." Tho crime was discovered, Butler traced, a cablegram 6ont to San Francisco, the vessel intercepted, the murderer arrested, brought back to Sydney, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. About this time I paid a visit to Brisbane, when a ministerial friend introduced me to tho mother of tho young man. Sho ovinced some interest in me, as I had seen and spoken to tho deceased much lator than hersolf. Pointing to His portrait hanging from the wall of the room, she said, "Ah! little did 1 dream that you would ho done to death, my beloved soul!" Sho was terribly depressed in spirits, and but for tho fact that she was a sincere Christian would, I think, have lost her reason. The day before Butler's execution I paid her another visit, when, instead of calling down tho vengeance of God upon the assassin, as many a mother would have done, sho took me'by the hand, and said: "Come, let us kneel down and imploro our Father to forgive and savo the soul of the murderer of my dear hoy!" Wo knelt down, when she poured out to God her heart's desire that the spirit of the murdered and the spirit of the vmurderer might meet in that Heaven where cruelty is unknown, and where the loving kindness of the God of love gladdens His blood-redeemed ones. This was tho power of divine love a —result of the reception of the Gospel, and a phase of the love which "beareth all things, delieveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." How lovely is this love. Is King George a Distiller? The Rov. Dr. John Leo ,an American minister, wrote to King George V., inviting tho attention of the Sovereign to a paragraph in tho letter of La Marvuise do Fontenoy, published on page 6 of tho Chicago Tribuno of October 14th, 1912, which reads thus "Few people outside English Court circles are aware that King Georgo is a whisky distiller on a large scale. I and that the famous Lochnagar | whisky is produced on his Balmoral estate, tho groat distilleries being situated about two miles from the castle. They supply not only the Roval cellars, as well as those of the Kaiser and of the Czar, hut also many of the leading clubs in London and the market generally, the revenues derived therefrom by King George's privy purse being enough to pnv even* penny of expense in connection with the maintenance of the Balmoral Castle and estate, and to leave a handsome profit besides." He received the following registered letter from His Majesty:— "Buckingham Palace, "October 30, 1912. "Tho private secretary presents his compliments to Rev. Dr. Lee, and is commanded by the King to acknowledge tho receipt of his letter on the fourteenth instant. In reply, the private secretary begs to inform Dr. Leo that there is no truth in tho report referred to in his communication."—Southern Cross. The abovo will be read with pleasure by many of His Majesty's subjects, and wo owe a deftt of gratitude to Dr. Lee for his part. Tho lie that King Georgo was a distiller, if not contradicted, would have been used by tho liquor party as a "further argument in favour of liquor. A Physician's Prescription. Some years ago a lady went to consult a famous physician about her health. She was a woman of nervous temperament. She gave the doctor a list of her symptoms and answered his questions only to be astonished at his brief prescription at the end: "Go home and read your bible an hour a day, then come back to me a month from to-day." And bo bowed her out beforo she could protest. At frrst she was inclined to bo angry; then 6he reflected that at least the prescription was not an

oxponsivo ono. Sho wont homo do torminod to road conscientiously hor noglcctcd liiblo. In 0110 month sho went back to the doctor's office a different person, and asked hun how he knew that was just what sho needed. For answer, the physician turned to his desk. There worn and marked lay an open Bible. "Madam," ho-said, <! if I were to omit my daily reading of thiß book I would lose my greatest source of strength and skill." qaniamnitnitaMHragMww