Full Gospel Bible Institute - Burning Lamp Yearbook (Eston, Saskatchewan Canada)

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REV. A. D. MARSHALL Most pastors will agree that there is a great gap in the service of music in the church. How many are faced each week with the work of song leading and then preaching after such labor! Many churches have the potential for some measure of musical ensembles that would enrich the lives of all the members, but there is none to bring it into being. Christ has put a NEW SONG in the hearts of His people. We need “skilled men” to bring that song into the fullness of blessing in the Church. Singing with the Spirit and with the understanding is not out of date in Christ’s Church. It is a “MUST” for today. May God’s people demand it and you be one “skilled of God to FILL THIS GAP.’ ” MRS. E. DODDS Dean of Women Young women, “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.” Colossians 3:16. “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul,” Deuteronomy 11:18. Are you ready to fill the gap should someone fail his tasks? “Who know- eth whether thou are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14. God needs channels through which He can do everything. Have you felt the pressure of His Word upon your heart by the pressure of His hand upon your life? Hear Him say, “My child, this is my will for uour life.” God gives His Holy Spirit in fulness to those who obey Him. May He breathe life through you to lost souls. He says tenderly, “Go ye.” REV. G. O. B. KILLAM “Teen-agers need a challenge.” The greatest challenge lies before today’s Christian teen-ager .. . CHRIST’S COMMISSION! Recent events remind us, that Christianity demands more than a jellyfish faith; not lip-service but LIFE-SERVICE. The great challenge throws itself before every Christian youth as veteran missionaries leave their posts because of ill- health, age and death. Gaps are glaringly evident everywhere. Out of the ranks of Christian youth must step young people who will take their places. It will mean persecution, misunderstanding, and possibly death to fulfill the Commission. The Modern Idea of Success? No! But it is the greatest challenge, and has eternal reward. It requires a dedication that will cross convention’s bounds to set the captive free.

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PRINCIPAL REV. L. O. PRITCHARD It was D. L. Moody who first saw the need of “gap men”: trained Christians to fill the gap between the professional clergyman and the ordinary man of the street. Mr. Moody knew what Bible study could do in the lives of young people. He realized that the following words were true. “There is a spirit in the Bible, which if it gets into men, makes tall of soul, tender in heart, just, gentle, patient, strong, faithful and fearless.” We know too, that these words are true, and without this kind of spirit men will never fill the gap. Our Christian life begins through the seed of the Word. It grows as it is fed the Word. God desires and instructs us to “study the Word.” A Christian’s life is kept free from sin by hiding the Word in the heart. Light from the Word directs us on our path. And finally, faith comes by hearing the Word. This kind of evidence proves that it is impossible to fill the gap in Christian service without earnest Bible Study. History illustrates the fact that the men who have left something worth¬ while, something abiding, have been men of the Book, men of the Bible.

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REV. R. T. WILSON Faithfulness is a ministry that each believer should possess regardless of his status of life. Many a gap of prayer, testimony, or giving is vacant because of unfaithfulness. God is not searching for popular men and women but for those even as Moses and Abraham who abounded with blessings because of their faithfulness. This bears importance in the welfare of a happy home, and so in God’s work. Faithfulness is His requirement for a successful Christian life, and the basis of our rewards. May we hear “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” REV. W. E. CROWDER “A child is wax to receive and granite to retain,” Francis Xavier said, “Give me a child until he is seven and anyone may have him afterwards.” Child Evangelism is important! In their tender years, children are open and receptive to the gospel. We must reach them while we have this opportunity. We must teach them the Bible in its entire truth before they become ensnared by today’s social gospel — enevloped in this world where success is spelled $t CCE$$. Life can be planned; tragedies can be prevented. There is hope in formation and regen¬ eration, hut not in reformation. If we are going to have stable born-again men and women to stand in the gaps of the next generation, we must win them today. MR. J. R. BURNSIDE Dean of Men unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord”? Or are we influenced by the worldly atmos¬ phere around us which says that if we are going to get anywhere or anything in this life, we must strive to obtain? Proverbs 13:7 tells us “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing.” If all the strivings in this world only produce nothing, would it not seem feasible that we turn our lives completely over to Him and fulfill God’s pur¬ pose in our lives by filling the gap? Let us be content to work for God with assurance that “no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.”