ADVENTIST CHURCH

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27090, 13 July 1953, Page 3

ADVENTIST CHURCH

ADDRESS BY CANADIAN PASTOR

“Broken homes, empty pews and corrupt philosophies in educational institutions are the surest wreckers of civilisation that I know of,” said Pastor C. C. Weis, of Canada, when addressing the combined congregations of the five Christchurch Seventh-day Adventist Churches at a special service held in the Repertoy Theatre on Saturday. A nation’s three most important foundations were the home, the church and the school. Pastor Weis said, and there were today “sinister movements shaking those very pillows.”

Likening our civilisation to a “super-de-luxe liner on a pleasure cruise,” Pastor Weis said that he believed that there were “warning signals a-plenty of the evil ahead; but the ship’s engines are full steam ahead, the bands are playing and the revelry aboard carries on at an ever increasing pace.” Character was not formed by chance, Pastor Weis said, for “into children’s character there goes what parents choose to put in—and the home is the finest place where that can be. done.” Pastor Weis was recently appointed

director of the Sabbath School and Home Mission departments at the South Pacific division conference of Seventh-day Adventists. He was in charge of Adventist Sabbath Schools and laymen’s activities throughout Canada before taking up his present position. During the last three weeks Pastor Weis has visited many Adventist Churches in the North Island. After conducting rallies in Timaru, Dunedin. Invercargill and Oxford. Pastor Weis will hold a series of meetings in the Norfolk Island Adventist Church before returning to Sydney. Next month he will visit Fiji.