by T. Austin-Sparks
The following messages
were given at the conference in Switzerland in 1962, and
readers will detect some local touches, and some features
of the spoken form. We have been repeatedly asked to
publish these meditations, and in doing so we can only
hope that many more will be able to profit by them. It
has been our aim to keep the teaching closely related to
life in its practical needs and demands. A messenger can
do little - if anything - more than faithfully deliver
his message. The Lord Jesus Himself could only do this,
and then pray. Surely we cannot cease to give the truth
because many who hear it fail to express it after
hearing! It is always a matter of 'casting the bread upon
the waters', or 'sowing beside all waters', not 'heeding
the cloud or the rain'. Ministry is always a work of
faith. Eternity alone may show the value. We
therefore commit these messages to the Spirit of God to
make all that He can of eternal value; and we trust that
the readers will seek to make it applied truth,
and not only more information.
T. AUSTIN-SPARKS.
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