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Jo on a pred om G ar Cc ch ot oe everfol de morent of 3 th io sus! cprerently grea ESP! the use of ; vis heve found this the most difficult of perl tenets to live vein in every person's life! * ny will "ad the nore pled ‘ly boast of my weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest cpon me." St. Paul hed found, through his faith in the power of Christ's grace, that his human power was of very little worth. His best acferse was not a good offence by the World's standards, but rather a willingness to be weak that grace mi ght ebouna! a ty on ae my 5 "yt ced fr wu ‘S cr °o w ° » ie ft How (difficult we all find it to bury our primitive drive to fight back! how aifficult we find it to suffer our own crucifixions! People often go into their pesters! counselling YOOUNS bitter because of some injustice they have suffered--or bitter because of some ser- sous frustration in their life. If they only covld see in their situation the opportunity for great spiritual growih. In those moments of greatest weakness, of greatest impotence, because of injustice or frustration they can experience the greetest power of God's gracet Instead, they so often think they must fight beck--ag ainst el odds! They cling to that worldly stenderd: the best defense is a good offense. But where Christ's grace is the diff- wad and Litterness or frustration, the cress and the afford the oniy way out. nristien paredox is not limited to personal crises, ged of public issues to appear upon the stage of con- is the figure of Caryl Chessman, Most thinking Amer- ustrated by this complex affair. Now the real issue in Mary convicted criminals have lost their lives with- -elebre." The real issue in this carticular case is Procece Something is radically wrong some- x rs and come within i n unrevelled! This is s producing embarrass ecedure is being a, 14 to this challenge. reincreasing rigicit n pro ecedure and thus overcome our C= will we seize the moment of our greatest weakness in over-hauling with humane concerns the whole $ thet grace may abound? "For when we are weak, Tne greatest profit you end I could rezeive from this pre-Lenien and Lentan season is to Ssee et realistic levels the implications of the Feradex of the Cross How do you face dhe creekresses, the insvlis, the hardships, the celemities of life? Be Bo you fieht back by the vules end stancards of the world? re) eve that Christ's grace is sufficient for you, that your power i -e 1 "boasted" of his weakness in order thet the power ef Chri fore} e e ask the outcome of the con- troversy in the Corinthian Church? ad founé th i “of life worth living--the jife lived under the Faradox of the Cross! weer the stirring “words of Elie Wheeler Wilcox in her "Poems of Experience:" WPousing a momere Say wes done, While yet € scintillent with light, I beckwer r rom velley, plain and height, AL intervels, life path hed run, Rose cross cn cress; end nailed upon each one Was my dead self. And yet that gruesome sight a Lent sudden splendour 3 to the falling night, Showing the concuests thet my soul ied won. to the risi sears I locked and cried, r yeer on year re-born to joy more great, n crucified, oeivaericse wait."