Liking vs Love

CAPE ARGUS – 1939, February 20

Lines from Sunday’s sermon

“Liking and love are too closely connected in thought by most of us. The one has in it all the feeling which comes from attraction. The other has will behind it. The one lives on while pleasure lasts and enjoyment feeds it. The other can live while its object gives it pain and shame. That is why the Apostolic description ‘Love suffereth long and is kind,’ is such an excellent test ready to hand.” – The Rev. A. W. Carter, Parish Church, Bellville.

The ever-open door of Christ’s heart

CAPE ARGUS – 1939, February 20

Lines from Sunday’s sermon

“Holman Hunt in his painting ‘The light of the world,’ has pictured Christ as standing at the door of our hearts, knocking and waiting to be admitted. While this is a true picture of the state of many men and women in the world today, it is also equally true that the world is gathered at the ever-open door of Christ’s heart. But for many of us this is as far as we get. We are afraid or unwilling to enter. This is the root cause of all our troubles today. Until we are willing to pass through the door, there will not be that freedom, power, and love for which we long.” – The Rev. Norman H. Pike, Methodist Manse, Woodstock.