HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-03-11, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1987. PAGE 23.
From the Minister's Study
Memories wanted of the good old days
BY JAMES H.CARNE
HURON CHAPEL MISSIONARY
CHURCH, AUBURN, ONTARIO.
1 remember well the time, years
ago, when a senior member of the
church and I were cutting wood.
He began to reminisce about the
good old days in the church; people
were much more spiritual, preach
ers really proclaimed the gospel,
“let the chips fall where they
may,’’ and revival meetings lasted
as long as six weeks, a service
every night. It didn’t occur to me at
the time that, while we were
talking about * * the good old days, ’ ’
he was lopping blocks off a log with
a chain saw. I wish that I had had the
presence of mind to ask him why we
weren’t see-sawing on the end of a
cross-cut saw, if the good old days
were so good!
The other night some of us were
talking informally about the sub
ject of revival meetings when the
question was raised as to whether
or not the average person knew
what a revival meeting was. Good
question! The answer is that many
won’t know and won’t care. For
others, probably “old-timers” in
the main, for revival meetings are
largely apart of “the good old
days,’’ the words will probably
evoke in them precious memories
because of the impact of such
meetings on their lives. Some
churches continue to perpetuate
revival meetings because they
think that this was one element of
the good old days that continues to
be good.
A revival meeting is something
of a spiritual spring cleaning. Fora
few days, everything is set aside
and a visiting evangelist helps to
focus on the needs of the soul. The
Bible indicates that a Christian can
“lose his first love,’’ as the
Ephesiansdid, (Rev. 2:4), and that
it is time for “judgement to begin
at the house of God.” (1 Peter
4:17). Revival meetings help the
Christian to judge himself, to
recognize a normal tendency to
spiritualapathyoveraperiod of
time, and opportunity is given to
crowd up closer to God.
Revival meetings often result in
a spill-over to some who have never
before faced up to their need of
God. At that point the revival
meeting becomes something of an
evangelistic crusade. Hundreds of
thousands of Christians date their
“new birth” to the time when a
tent was pitched or a church was
opened for an old-fashioned reviv
al meeting, or a camp-meeting in
somebody’s grove.
I would be interested to know
whether or not some of our readers
have had occasion to be grateful
that they were born soon enough to
get in on some old-fashioned
revival meetings and, as a conse
quence, came to know God in a
personal way.
1 would welcome the letters,
anonymous, if you wish, of any who
would take the time to write and
share their revival meeting experi
ence with me. Simply address me
at Auburn, Ontario, NOM 1E0. I
suspect that some who write will
tell about very recent experiences,
for revival meetings are still with
us. There are some things out of the
good old days that are worth
bringing along into the present!
i
Voice for Life membership up
Eleven members met for the
March meeting of the Wingham
and Area Voicefor Life Board of
Directors.
Considerable discussion revolv
ed around the formation of a new
provincial political party, the
“Family Coalition Party”. Mem
bers were happy to note that the
new party, if formed, will be
pro-life and pro-family. They
welcome this new party because
they are convinced that pro-life and
pro-family people are now disen
franchised.
Proof of this disenfranchisement
was made clear to them once more
by two recent events: the approval
for legal protection of “sexual
orientation” in Ontario under Bill 7
(in favour: NDP, Liberals and the
leader of the PC Party); and the
rebuff of the pro-life pro-family
groupknownas Real Women by
the PC Government in Ottawa, the
same government gave $11 million
to feminists of all sorts, including
large sums of money to pro-abor
tion and pro-lesbian groups. (The
Christian Heritage Party, a new
federal party, was formed last year
for similar reasons.)
The group will look into renew
ing their contracts for T.V. com
mercials to be shown on Channel 8
for the coming year, 1987, with the
possibility of producing a new
commercial.
The fetal models and literature
have been requested by teachers
and students in area schools.
Due to a recent membership
drive, membershipinthe group
has increased by 85 members. Six
board members will attend the
all-Ontario pro-life conference to
be held at Hampton Court Hotel on
March 27 and 28.
The annual dinner meeting will
be held on Wednesday, April 29, at
the Presbyterian Church in Wing
ham. Members-at-large and the
general public are invited. Tickets
will be available shortly from board
members.
To salvage stretched-out sweat
ers, seal tightly in a plastic bag and
freeze overnight. The next day the
sweater will have shrunk back to
original size.
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