THE CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 8

THE CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION.

The Chapman-Alexander Mission party conducted another, crowded meeting in the Town Hall last night, the concert chamber being filled with the- overflow long before the time for the beginning of the service, hundreds heing, ac usual, turned away disappointed. Dr. Chapman took for his text, "There is a em unto death," from John 1., chaper v., verse 10. God. said tha preacher,, was always fair, always just. Any, therefore, who did paas into the future unpardoned t<} Eternity would have *o reproach none but themselves. "I am the way, the truth, and the lifeNo man shall live in the Father but mc," ran the- Word. Sin separated the sinner from God; but confess and forsake that sin, md tie way, the truth, and the- life would be made visible. Sin—whether it be the sin of impurity, gambling, intemperance, or of any other quality—separated the sinner from bis loved ones, weakened the will, blinded, and ultimately overthrew the sinner without hope. What was the greatest sin? The greatest sin in all the •world was unbelief. Men declared that they had the right as thinkers to their unbelief. . But the very rejection of, resistance to. belief was, in every impulse of rejection and resistance, a blow on the. nails that impaled Him upon the Cross. There was a sin unto death, but no one had committed tie unpardonable jsin who etill said in his heart, "I wish I might be a Christian." For such an one there was still hope. But every time the day of repentance wae deferred the will weakened, every act of resistance brought the sin nearer unto death. The preacher, -with .many pieces of imagery and outbursts of ' earnest rhetoric, held the vast audience under the spell of his message, so that in the pauses of the speaker's utterance a pin drop could almost have been heaTd. At the conclusion of his address, Dr. Chapman invited all the men of the congxegation to follow him into the supper room, where he delivered a few -words ,0! spiritual exhortation, and persuaded a considerable number of his hearers to .a «onfeeeion of faith.