THE INNS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2603, 10 September 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE INNS.

A Pilgrim fares upon iris itay, And ever changes inns; Qua place of rest for yesterday, To-day another wins. , Behinds him still the closing door, And still the vacant room; Before him stilt the untrod floor, Strange roofs for ever loom. And so I hold my way alone, Adovvn the changing years; Last night on Jacob's dreaming stone, To-night, perhaps, in tears. I pass, like Pilgrim, to his goal, And drop my load of sin; X catch the gleam of shining gold, I near the Changeless Inn. UNTO YOU THAT HEAR SHALL MORE HEARING BE GIVEN.

(Rev. J. H. Jowett, M.A.)

1. ‘Unto you that hear shall more be given.’ The measure of your hearing shall be the measure of your listening. The more you listen the more you shall hear. The measure of your, attention shall determine the measure of the revelation. ‘With what measure ye metOj it shall be measured to you again. That is a vital and momentous application of this great principle. If you want to hear the voice of God, listen 1 The voice will grow clearer an I clearer as your hearing becomes more earnest and intense. Listen to God s voice in conscience, and wore and more pronounced and definite shall be “’ls guidance. Do not listen much to conscience, and conscience -ill say less and less to you, until perhaps some day. tie hall where it ought to thunder shall be as silent as the tomb. A man ought to have a clearer and more vigorous conscience at fifty than he bad at twenty, or it is an unanswerable witness that he has not been listening as he ought. This is a great law: ‘Unto you that hear shall more he given, and ‘From him that hath not, shall be taken away eve . that which he hath. It is "not otherwise with the voice that speaks from the book we call the >Vord of God. ‘Unto you that hear shall ; more be given.’ A person can read , the Bible, and not listen, and to him there comes no eternal speech. The revelation is not given to the reader but to the listener. I may read discourse after discourse which was spoken by our Lord, but if the ear of my spirit b© closed, I shall never hear the Master’s voice. His voice is spiritually discerned and only as I listen with my spirit will revelations be made to me. ‘ln the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know- wisdom.’ If we turn to the Word with the spirit awake and alert, we shall be led from revelation to revelation, and from glory to glory. ‘Unto you that hear shall more be given’ ■;>. measure for measure: ‘with what measure ye mete, it shall bo measured to you again.’ INTOXICATED WITH MUSIC. I Frank Bullen, in his hook, “The Cruise of the ‘Cachalot’,” says: “When a boy of' sixteen, home from a voyage, and . strolling the Knightsbridge Ready I ‘happened’ into the Albert -Hall. I did not in the least know what * was coming, the notices on the bills: did-;not mean anything to me. i paid my shilling and went up into the gallery.. I had hardly edged, myself into, a corner by the refreshment stall, when a great breaker of sound caught me. • hurled ;mo out of time, thought, and sense in one intolerable ecstasy— * For, unto us a Child is born; unto us a son is given,’ again and again—billows and billows of glory. I gasped for breath, shook like one in an ague fit; the tears ran down in a continuous stream' while people stared amazed at me, thinkiug, I suppose, that I was another drunken sailor. Well, I was drunk, helplessly intoxicated, hut not >vith drink—with something Divine, untellable, which coming upon me unprepared, simply swept me away with ;.t • into a-heaven of delight, to which only tears could testify. NEW ARCHBISHOP’S POLICY.

Tho Archbishop of York has been on a visit to Sheffield—and in response to an address from the clergy lie said he especially : valued the warmth of tlieir welcome, considering that many. /of them differed ‘from him on points of doctrine' and' worship. It was easy to exaggerate those differences, but it was useless to si*bak’as if not exist. Every thinking man-must think out his own position in these matters,. But in-regard! to his duties as bishop lie could not say with-all his hcSltt that he was determined to know no man after his party-or school ,of thought. AH he asked of every man. was that lie should do dns- best to. save- the souls of the and to elevate their life. BOyoud. that they;need; a large-hearted' spirit, of in the There were : limitations to that toleration, fdr the Church ( had a mind of its own, expressed in two Words, “Catholic, and reformed,”' But that mind, though" definite, was also roomy and hospitable, What they had to do was to study tliet 'points and principles of difference with a candid and charitable mind. They had all to learn from one another. Dr Lang’ urged his hearers to rise above mere Congregationalism or parochialism, and to work as one body for;the evangelisation of the great masses without.

Theodora Crosby Bliss tells of a modern Ruth—named, Tina—who lived on tho island;of in . Micronesia, t When Tiria was a ; girl of twelve she wore only a short fringe of grass about her waist, smoked tobacco, and was familiar Xvith all the vices or, heathenism,; One day she. met a woman missionary, who, persuaded i her to; attend the mission scnool. There she discarded her, grass skirt and evil ways for the dress and,, habits of civilisation. _ She learned to love her missionary friend, and, better,-still,, to loye the missionary’s God Three years, later Tina’s heathen , parents sent for her. They wonted thoir daughter to marry a wicked'old chief. She refused. They threatened her with death, beat her, and dragged her around by the hair until her dress was torn and her body was bruised and blepding. Still the.girl refused to marry a heathen or.conform ! to heathen customs. For two days, slip refused to eat .for fear of being poispnpdj and finally escaped from her imKusonment, running five iHiles to the .nne: of frieridt. She’ was nearly exhausted, but was happy to be oncomore with the. sho v loved'- tind freo to Worship the died whom she had chosen to *' sorvo.^Exchauge.