PITT-STREET WESLEYAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 186, 19 August 1901, Page 2

PITT-STREET WESLEYAN.

The Rev. W. S. Potter took as his text acts 21, verse xxxix., "But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a citizen of no mean city." He said that as Christians we should endeavour to fulfil our duties of citizenship, and make our influence active by Toting at the ballot, and not allow it to remain passive. Tarsus was a city remarkable for its education, and for the magnitude of its commerce; Auckland is a city with innumerable educational advantages, and is rapidly becoming the first business centre of this colony. There is no educution so important as the moral and religious education of the children, and as parents it behoves us to look after the moral upbringing of our children. He pointed out that Paul was a law-abiding citizen, and no man is a good citizen who wilfully violates the law; he was a selfsupporting citizen —he had learned his trijde as a tent-maker, and he worked at it, and they are the strongest and bravest citizens who fear God. Paul recognised his rights and privileges as a Roman citizen, and he took advantage of them, and we likewise, as social and religious reformers, must suppress the evil influences of the times, and by steady application and earnest prayer make this a State of holy influence.