Mission of the Master
ROFESSOR E. M. BLAIKLOCK’S talks The World to Which Christ Came (1YC) are a most admirable series illuminating the significance of the Christmas season. With a lightlyborne erudition, Dr. Blaiklock has so far vividly recreated for us the circumstances of Christ’s birth, the rulers of Palestine and the religious situation at the time. Aspects of the subject which present themselves to the minds of most of us in terms of the simple stylisations of classical and popular art gain greater tangibility and a broader meaning when presented with such realism and concreteness. These are qualities of one kind of good preaching, although there is nothing of what is conventionally regarded as "parsonical" in Dr, Blaiklock’s crisp tones. Perhaps his best talk to date was the most recent, which discussed the outlooks of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and revealed the gap between the religious leaders and the people. Dr. Blaiklock’s examples of the rigid formalism of the Pharisees in practice did more than anything else to explain the’ readiness with which the people accepted the teachings of Christ "in the little land no larger than Taranaki" (to use one of his characteristic phrases) "where the mission of the Master had its stage."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 8
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206Mission of the Master New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 8
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