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

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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.”

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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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MISS AGNES HALL “Thanks be unto God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ... in every place.” As each year slips by and the appalling need for labourers in the Lord’s work grows, 1 am made to search my heart and ask myself if 1 am doing all I can to fulfil the command of the Lord, “Go ye”. For some of us this has not meant foreign soil or the ministry of the Word in a full-time sense. However, it does mean a yielded heart and life for whatever field of service the Lord sees best. It brings real joy to my heart to be busy, in one of the “gaps” in Christian service, here in the office of F.G.B.I. My prayer is that in His strength I will ever be found ready to “make up the hedge and stand in the gap”, wherever it may be. MR. ALEX C. GAMMIE “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Jesus was made sin for us that we might be made righteous in Him. I thank the Lord that because of Calvary I have fellowship with the Lord. It is a wonderful thing to know you belong to the family of God. I am thankful for the hand of God upon my life. My prayer is that I might be willing to fill the gap that the Lord would ask me to fill. MR. AND MRS. N. FEHR God said in Ezekiel 22:30, “I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap ... but I found none”. We have felt the call of God on may occasions to fill the gap; so by His help we have endeavoured to fill it. In answering His calls, we obtained the “peace of God that passeth all under¬ standing” and it became a part of us. As we helped to make up the hedge, we have found that our Lord has given more grace and added no sorrow. MRS. ALBERT L. KING “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might”. A man’s life begins and he rushes on earth’s short journey. Accompanying him are teeming millions! Up ahead is the sign of the crossroad, “eternal life . Someone reaches the one beside him and he hears, “Destruction ahead”. He rushes on, not sure what they meant. Then he sees the great precipice. He turns to go back but millions are pushing ahead. Fear grips him but it is too late, his life is done. If only someone had reached him a the crossroad, perhaps he would have turned to Christ and been saved. Should you have filled that gap?