A Day of Small Things

G H S Price – O the wonder of the moment – God outshining in His Son!

O the wonder of the moment!
God outshining from above
To secure a scene of glory,
All responsive to His love.
Thought eternal are unfolded;
Now, in Christ, their wealth is shown
That for men a place in sonship
Might through Him, the Son, be known.

But the objects of that favour
Were in chains of bondage bound;
Guilty sinners must be ransomed,
And the lost must needs be found.
Love was thus in mercy seeking
Satan’s captives from the fall,
And the wonder of the story –
Jesus died to save them all!

Thus that work in all it’s glory
Every thought of God maintains,
While His grace o’er all has triumphed,
And through righteousness now reigns.
Here the Spirit too bears witness
To the truth that all is done.
O the wonder of the moment –
God outshining in His Son!

G. H. Stuart. Price Harrow 1911-63

Hymn 133. “Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1962) – English.” iBooks.

Lord Carey warns “Christianity is at risk of dying out in a generation”

Dear Dr Carey,

May you be proved totally right! Christianity might die out this week – We’re waiting for the Lord to come.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. – 1 Thess 4:16

Christianity is just a “generation away from extinction” in Britain unless churches make a dramatic breakthrough in attracting young people back to the faith, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has warned. – Daily Telegraph – 19 November 2013

My answer to Lord Carey – Christianity might die out this week!

Small Numbers are Often due to Want of Evangelical Activity

The churches are becoming empty: I am alluding to what is common and current around us; that is to say, apostasy is at work, most deplorably so. One has no pleasure at all in the churches, so called, becoming empty, because one knows such emptying is simply apostasy, the devil’s work. But what about the house of God? Is it not being added to? It is, indeed; and that is the positive thing to which one turns with the deepest satisfaction, that the matter is proceeding, the house is being filled with people, but not with such as are unsuitable. Let us never be deceived by the thought of mere numbers. Not that we should not be ashamed of very small numbers where there might be larger ones: for the truth is that small numbers are often due to want of evangelical activity

Whilst we say rightly that it is “the day of small things” Zechariah 4: 10, let us remember and own that our laziness, our indolence, our want of evangelical activity, is the cause of the smallness of numbers in many cases. Let us take this to heart; for this is a great evangelical chapter, and also the next one (Luke 15).

Ministry of J Taylor Volume 47 p 357-358