PASTOR JOSEPH CLARK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 197, 20 August 1900, Page 2

PASTOR JOSEPH CLARK.

At the Tabernacle lagt evening, Pastor Clark preached on the subject, "\ncient Keys for Modern Principles, basing his discourse on Leviticus xix. 18, and Matthew v., 43. Pastor Clark said: I regard this Citizen Sunday as a splendid institution. It is well that once a year at least we should take a special line of thinking which bears down upoil man's attitude to man. There have been those who have said Moses made great mistakes. Why, the very folly of Moses was wiser than the ■wisdom of our modern leaders. He took a multitude of people that were a mere mob, and trained and taught them. He led them forth till they became a powerful and organised nation He showed them their duty and obligations to one another. What do we find? Of all peoples, the Jewish people are those possessing the largest vitality and vigour. It does not matter where you put them, be it in the burning heat of Central Africa, or in thrice frozen Siberia. We owe the first Republic the world ever saw to Moses. He showed that government of the people by the people for the people was the correct thing. Moses founded the first teetotal society. The consecreated Nazarite was a total abstainer. I trust, dear friends, you will use your power to oppose the thrusting of what is not asked for—the drink into the King Country. If the European settles in that district, he goes with his eyes open. Why should we push the liquor in there? It will mean without doubt to the noble native race their utter ruin and. obliteration The Commonwealth is ours. Every Jewish lad had stamped on his youthful brain, as it were, his na-. tion's history. Each.boy, no matter of how Tich parentage, was taught a trade Everyone was a worker None were parasites. Over toil was impossible. Overcrowding was out of the question. There was work, and food, and space for all. None suffered from poverty. None were so immensely rich that their . power could oppress ana grind down others. Were these not social laws of the most advanced type/ Were these blunders of Moses, think you? Would that we* had like blunderers to-day! The sanitary laws of Moses are observed by the Jews jo

this day, consequently they are the healthiest people known, and the most free from serious epidemics. The isolation in infectious diseases and the inspection of food are all from Moses' code of health. And then we had the best land laws, and rules for wages, and for the guidance of masters and servants. We find that even to-day we cannot improve upon the laws of Moses for domestic, industrial, and commercial life. The ne'er-do-well, if he lost his land, could not for ever deprive his family of it, for after a certain time it reverted to them. Moses taught that grey hairs should be honoured, and in his day a hoary head commanded the reverence of the young. It will do no harm to you young people of these colonies to copy that