1959 Feb 8 — Vocational Guidance for the Christian - A Sermon by David Oswald Aldridge

Our age is an age of new words, reflecting the astonishing advances that mankind has made in science and psychology during the last decades.

1959 Feb 3 — Christian Endeavour Society Consecration — An Address by David Aldridge

I think that the greatest danger facing the Christian Endeavour Society today is that it tends to become a small, happy social group. Not that it should not, or is not that. It has been many things—including a matrimonial centre—and a good thing it has been too. But primarily it is not these things. It has other essential features which made it distinctive when it was started, and which must be maintained if it is to remain distinctive.

1959 Feb 1 — The Last Cry from the Cross — A Sermon by David Oswald Aldridge

It was at nine o’clock in the morning that they crucified the Lord, after His long night of agony in the garden of Gethsemane, where He fought out in His mind and soul the necessity of death. He had been through the bitter, drawn-out trial, and the torture and flogging. He waited the long hours that stretched before Him, and that would close only with His death.

1959 Feb 1 — Induction — An Address by David Oswald Aldridge

Two thoughts dominate me in this very solemn hour.

The first is the clear sense of my call to the ministry of the word of God.

1959 Jan 11 — When Christ Came to Cana — A Sermon by David Oswald Aldridge

Our Lord was the Lord of the highway and the lake. He was Lord in a joiner’s shop, and sitting with dusty feet on the edge of a well. He shared His life with common humanity.

1959 Jan 4 — Facing The New Year — A Sermon by David Oswald Aldridge

You will have heard the dramatic news last night, that a moon rocket has been launched by Russia, and is speeding on its way past the moon, to be somewhere into outer space.