Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), July 23, 1969, p. 6

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REV CRAIG A St Andrews Presbyterian THE OTHER SIX As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks Sunday Said Tommy Snooks to Bessie Brooks Tomorrow will be Monday Mother Goose has a lot of wisdom The four lines of poetry written above are wise words for the Chrstian of today However we must think even further than the words imply tor Monday is only one of the I have heard the pseudoreligious philosophy that we should suddenly begin to act holy because a particular day of the week has arrived What sort of negative faith do we practice with thoughts of doing good or being good because it happens to be Sunday While thinking of landing mc space engineer has suggested that has been solved coming back to earth may prove to bo he toughest problem Something of the same thing ap plies to faith It con soar to the heights of religious feel ing and affirmation but in the last analysis it must prove itself In the theatre of every day living P St Pauls Church Newmarket Mr is the son Mrs It and the late Mr Toronto Mrs is the daughter of Mr Dutch visitors in Gwillimbury Faith is a profound conviction that the Chris tian Gospel is true faith is a personal Jesus Christ And Faith Is action the caring and sharing of love a cup of water a loaf of bread given in the of Christ I may have faith strong enough to mountains but If I have no love am nothing hove a principle which they call unity of theory and practice The Marxists believe faith apart from works upon is what you believe And so they hove these con stant purglngs of their party members on the basis of practice Not to practice is Communist heresy What would happen if we applied that test to ourselves Faith and works are like the twi 11 Is virtually impossible to navigate a true course with only one We must be think ing ahead That is always the real test of religion the other six days Not how beautiful it sounds on Sunday listened the hymns in which we joined the prayers we said together The other six days how does it work then What do you do with it then i old story written around the life of a peasant who after worshipping at his church on Sunday carried the altar candle homo with him to give him light for his chores and to guide his plowing Monday morning before the The word of God is given that we may and apply it the other six days make it part of the ture of our lives And while that is an old idea to often repealed it is trite it is failing still thai we listen better than we live that know better than we act Its a subtle temptation to substitute tional responsiveness for practical action to imagine that an orthodox theology eliminates the need for Chris tian living EAST HEIGHTS Mr and Mrs Carl Vandcrkolff from Amsterdam Holland ore visiting their five sons and families throughout just spent Pat and Janice in were the hostess friends were guests weeks holiday at Stormy ly luncheon was served They Mrs Albert camped at Mr wltt the bridetobes sisters cottage grandmother Let The People Praise Thee O God Rev Craig each Sunday

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