President’s Message

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 11, 1 December 1948, Page 5

President’s Message

Dear Friends,— What do you think is most needed, and that we can all give, to help abolish the liquor traffic? There is just one answer—“ Service” given to Christ through the every-day opportunities ihat crowd about us. SERVICE—we can all give a little more: give an extra piece of literature; state a fact about the danger of the liquor trade to some one who may not know it; remind a fellow member of the Union meeting day, etc. ENCOURAGING Praise other people’s efforts to work for Christ, never mind whether you like them, or their efforts. REFLECTING —Giving such service as we are able in the spirit that reflects the love of Christ. VlSlON—Serving with a clear vision of God’s will to remove evil from the land, keeping our eyes set on the glory of God and our ears listening for His direction re ways and means of carrying out what we see and hear. INDIVIDUAL—See to it that we leave none of our individual • work undone, it is ourt to do. If we do not do it, someone else may, but we shall have lost our opportunity. It won’t come back; we may, in God’s mercy, receive another opportunity but for the whole of our lives we have to go short of the blessing that might heve come to us. CONSECRATE—Perfect service can only be given through sincere and self-sacrificing consecration. Without consecration to His service it is impossible for Christ to give to us the gifts He lived and died to give. ETERNITY—AII acts of consecrated service help us and those around us to reach Eternity with joy and gladness and, if we are true to our Union Pledge, with thankfulness that we have been allowed to help to make a cleaner world by abolishing the liquor traffic. With very sincere good wishes to you all. Yours sincerely, C. E. KIRK. Dominion President.