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

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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?

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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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VISITING FACULTY REV. A. E. SHEPPARD The value of the personal witness for Christ in these days needs re-emphasis. The fruit of the Christian is very evident, “producing one of our kind”. This means soul winning. ]esus practised it, and the disciples followed the pattern. If we are going to “fill the gap” in the tremendous need existing in the world, it is becoming increasingly important that every Christian personally fulfill the Great Commission and preach the Gospel to every creature. “Go ye” — personal charge; “Into all the world” — the field is the world; “Preach the gospel” — proclaim the good news; “To every creature” — Every creature Commission REV. F. J. KOSICK Missionaries have been “Gap-Men” throughout the centuries. They were go-between men or mediators between God and lost men! As long as Abra¬ ham stood in this “Gap” and interceded for Sodom and Gomorrha, God spared it! When he stepped out of the “Gap” sudden destruction fell. The “Church” today is the only militant power that can withstand the Atheistic hoards of Satanic opposition. We desperately need annointed, commissioned gap-men, who can make the difference to any nation be¬ tween revival or sudden destruction. The greatest sign of this age is not the explosion of the hydrogen bomb or conquest of space, but it is rather, God’s Gag-men, the missionaries preaching “The Gospel of the Kingdom for a witness unto all nations”! As soon as the gap-men are removed from their posts, sudden destruction shall come. This happened in every land around the world. It is when God can¬ not find a Gap-man, “Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them.” Ezekiel 22:30-31. May God call militant missionaries from the grad¬ uating class this year of 1965. REV. E. L. McRAE I am in full accord with the excellent theme that “The Burning Lamp” has chosen for 1965. Although Ezekiel’s vision is related to Israel in her departure from God, the application to our time is very fitting indeed. What kind of men is God seeking to fill that gap? Only a casual glance at the context will tell you. He is seeking those who manifest in their life the fruit of the Svirit. The one supreme requisite to possessing the fruit of the Spirit is a total dedication to Jesus Christ in a mighty baptism of divine Love. The imposter can’t fill the gap. Galatians 5:22, 25. REV. IRVIN W. ELLIS Dr. Laubach, the creator of the world-famous “each one teach one” method of spreading literacy, estimates that there will be 800 MILLION adults in the world asking for something to read before the Christian church wakes up to its opportunity! The importance of Christian journalism is further emphasized when we realize the extent to which cultists and communists have studied to capture the minds and hearts of young and old through the printed page. The writing, printing and distribution of gospel literature is the greatest single means of helping stem the floodtide of suggestive, seductive and sub¬ versive literature. Millions of new readers are waiting for something to read... what a challenge to fill that void by presenting the Living Word within the Writ¬ ten Word.