GQ) The first thing God is work-} ing for through Christ is manhood, beginning with that readjustment of our nature that sets us right with God, our neighbours and ourselves. Christ gets to the root of things—In the beginning " the Bible says you find God, and it is at the beginning of the human Programme that you find Christ. You have to get -back to that inning to find him, to discount your spiritual position and moral achievement and begin again as a child. Just as it is in rowing. Some men think they can row when they go up to the university because they have done their best on the river. But they have to start all over afresh, to get the basis of good style. And so with the Kingdom of Heaven. A man: finds; Christ in his willingness to make a! new start, just as the prodigal son! discovered his father in the true sense when he gave up' the pride of his alienation. No programme of human improvement will Jani us anywhere, except in pretence and disaster, unless we accept Christ's word for it that the start has to be made with a new quality of man-7 ood.
There are secondary arguments for abstaining from things perilous or for indulging in things religious. But it is neither abstinences nor observances that get to the root of the matter: no, nor services and activities. It is rather a question; between the will of a man and the Son of Man himself. Will you be made clean Will you be made whole?" The programme begins in fulness of times He might unify the heart, because there is the creation in Christ.. in whom making of manhood, and that is the we also have received an inherit-{ province not"of the Church but of ance." This truly inspired utter-Christ. Only thus can there be ance is just a fuller expression of that integrity of mind, that spon-St. John's great word, that Christ taneity of will, that happy loyalty came into the world not to condemn 01 heart which are the alphabet of but to save it.
And what a rest|the human programme. it gives to the mind, what a renewal A distinguished states: the: other day defined his party programme by the adventures he would Gscard and the burdens he would avoid. His opponents no doubt will recommend measures of reconstruction. And by much considerations the public mind will be divided. Ministers of the Crown and their kind have to deal with these perishable programmes. But minister of the Gospel knows he has a much sounder task, knowing that nothing that is done will ordure unless it has first een traced by the invisible finger of God. What matters most of all is tke strengthening of manhood for tke heaving of burdens and the facing of adventure,
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