The heart of that matter, however, was reached in Openshaw, for there the entire service was focused on three women: Bolton’s Dr Alice Hawker, bound for North India; Openshaw’s own Ella Sharp, bound for ‘King Khama’s cap-ital in Central Africa’ (Khama had been a guest at ‘The Willows’ a few years earlier); and Dr Ruth Massey. Here a local church, in a genuinely working-

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The heart of that matter, however, was reached in Openshaw, for there the entire service was focused on three women: Bolton’s Dr Alice Hawker, bound for North India; Openshaw’s own Ella Sharp, bound for ‘King Khama’s cap-ital in Central Africa’ (Khama had been a guest at ‘The Willows’ a few years earlier); and Dr Ruth Massey. Here a local church, in a genuinely working-

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ABSTRACT

Out of the mouths of the poor, and the humble, the needy old woman, trembling, and knowing little except how to trust, and having little power of argument for her trust, God has perfected praise. And you, the successful students, the graduates, you have that faith to sustain you . . . as often times, perhaps, you may have little else . . . Problems? We shall have all Eternity to solve them in. You will not have the work of saving the heathen in all Eternity. A few years, how few, please to remember, it is for God to answer the question . . . Will you remember that the Apostle Paul said, ‘Christ sent me not to baptise but to preach the Gospel’; and that the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully broad . . . Answers may not come, but grace will come, fitness will come, for He has called you to be servants of the manifold grace of Christ.