CHRIST our MESSAGE: “…that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body” (2 Cor 4:10). Whatever outward forms it takes, Christian service fundamentally is transmitting Christ. Some years ago, in an old church in an English village, an elderly preacher was almost at the end of a very ordinary sermon, when he suddenly livened up and spoke a sentence which still rings in our memory: “Oh, my friends, the greatest of all things in life is to know the living Christ in your own heart, and to be able to communicate Him to others!” Miss Beatrice Cleland has immortalized it in her poem, which I believe she wrote as a tribute to the person who led her to the Savior:
Not only by the words you say, Not only in your deeds confessed,
But in the most unconscious way Is Christ expressed.…
For me ’twas not the truth you taught, to you so clear, to me so dim,
But when you came to me, you brought A sense of Him.