AMBASSADOR BOOTH'S MISSION.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 2

AMBASSADOR BOOTH'S MISSION.

♦ A ten days' apostMic devotional campaign was commenced last night in tie Durtiam street Methodist Chinch by Ambassador Booth, son of thsj iai« General Booth. The Ambassador, who delivered an address on "The God of tho Bible and the God of Modern Mischief," stated that God's work could net be improved en to-day, becaiaa it w»s perfect. That was why the oldest things that cime from God were always world, hs 6&1&, ail things that grew, irotn ti.e mij.-hciest trees in the forest to tie tini-' est inweis in the dell, lilted themselves towards the sun. In a business th« great central idea was profit- In the same manner the centre of all our worship, the singing of hymn 3 and the saying of prayers should all be directed to and centred on Gcd. who wa3 the dominating subject of the Bible. Unfortunately the tendency to-day was to put God as far back as possible The works of God were seen on every hand; yet wa denied Him, and when people saw a piece of magnifiioent scenery they failed to recognise it as God's work. Botany, aoology. astronomy, the world iteelf —all these things were a ruystery were it not that wp knew the hand of God was behind it all. He deplored the glorification of evolution that was so prevalent today even in the pulpits. If man wvs left to himself without God he would devolve, not evolve. Evolution was man'?, own scheme to live without God. Pjople had B'ia name on lips, but not Hi* in their hearts. Men were more afraid of men themselves than of God.