CHURCH OF CHRIST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 14

CHURCH OF CHRIST

MORNING AND EVENING SERVICES At the Church of Christ Ponsonby Road. yesterday morning, the preacher. Mr. Russell Dick, taking for his text words in psalm XXX : S, “O taste and see that the Lord is good, " said that this text was a challenge to so-called “Rationalism.” It was a direct invitation to men to prove the verity or otherwise of the sayings of Jehovah. The greatest Book in the world began with a definite statement, “In the beginning God” and man hal never yet got beyond that statement As man pondered upon those four words, he was forced to the conclusion that Intellect comes from Intellect, Personality from Personality, Ability to say “I will” from the original force that said. “Thou shalt,” and that man was a living testimony to the fact that there was a God. “The Bible Is not only a monument of the Church, but it is a vital force moving along with the ages. Its adaptability to meet the every need of man is unique. Science in its every aspect has not given to the world any greater truths than are to be found in the Bible, and apart from God the Bible is inexplicable,” concluded Mr. Dick. At the evening service, Pastor Clark, M.A., speaking on the theme, “A Message to the Weary,” said that at the conclusion of the Great War, there were prophets who said that the world would witness a great spiritual awakening, but the years had gone and the awakening had not come, and the prophets had grown weary; they had been disillusioned. WEARINESS There were men today who were weary of the monotony of their callings; day in and day out it was the same old routine. They were mere machines in the industrial world. Then again there were those who were weary in suffering; racked with bodily pain, their lives were burdensome to them, and they were weary. There were also those whose lives had become almost unbearable because of the sins of others, innocenr victims of the folly of others, and they had oecome weary. “Is there no solution fo” their weariness?” asked the preacher. The prophet Isaiah in the 50th chapter and 4th verse thanked God that He had given him the tongue of the learned, in that he was able to speak a word in season, and Pastor Clark

said he had a message from the Bible which would prove to any who were finding the battle of life toe strenuous, a comfort and a consolation. It was the Master Himself who said, “Come unto me, ail ye that are weary and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest,” and the Christ had proved himself a comfort and a consolation to thousands of trusting souls throughout the ages. His pWer was just as potent today as ever it was because He was the One that changed not. “The same yesterday, today, and for ever.”