THE SABBATH

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20510, 28 May 1938, Page 24 (Supplement)

THE SABBATH

WITH JOY I WILL FOLLOW The sands have been washed in the footprints Of the Stranger on Galilee’s shore, And the Voice that subdued the rough billows Will be heard in Judea no more; But the path of that lone Galilean With joy I will follow to-day. Then the toils of the road will seem nothing When I get to the end of the day. ENTHUSIASM WHAT WENT YE FORTH TO SEE? In all things throughout the world the men who look for the crooked wll| see the crooked, and the men who look for the straight will see the straight.— Ruskin. People blessed or unblessed with certain temperaments are apt to condemn enthusiasm, but they forget, perhaps, that no good has ever been done without enthusiasm at the bottom of it. The great heroes of the world have been men capable of being lifted up with high and holy enthusiasm.—H. R. Haweis. THE INDWELLING CHRIST What is the Spirit’s life within but just the indwelling Christ This is the work of the Spirit, that Christ who lived and died for me should live again within my heart, the very life of my life. And the fr.uit of the Spirit is just Christ’s character, in all its harmonious fullness, reproduced in me by that holy indwelling, through which my nature is changed into His. My coldness gives place to His love, my moroseness to His joy, my restlessness to His peace. For my impatience there comes to be His long-suffering, for my harshness His kindness, for my churlish temper His goodness. He changes my disloyalty into His faithfulness. —Anon. CHRISTIAN LOYALTY Speaking at Wandsworth ftotlege on Commemoration Day, Principal Lofthouse gave an arresting address on “The Present Conflict between Church and State.” Thoughtful people of today, he said, were troubled with the world situation which resulted from the conflict between the fatalism, which created pessimism, and the Faith which inspired optimism. In all nations this struggle between the claims of the State and those of the Church bad grown and widened in the last 20 years. The idea of the Totalitarian State was not new: it could be traced back to the French Revolution, when for the first time in history the State claimed the absolute devotion of the people. What was new was the manner In which the e!*im we* made. Nationalism called the entire nation to surrender to its sovereign ends —a demand which excluded Christian spirit. The modern State could not be identified with the Roman Empire of the New Testament. The despots of to-day. both individual and national, were the product of the present age. While the Christian would ever be a loyal citizen, he would always obey God rather than man This was the supreme claim.