ADVENTIST LAYMEN’S CONVENTION
PASTOR ADDRESSES ■ DELEGATES Six hundred South Island Seventhday Adventist laymen were challenged on Saturday morning by their world leader (Pastor L. T. Oswald, of Washington) to “live selfless lives free from every wrong word and action.” They were attending in the Civic Theatre a service of dedication for the first South Island Adventist laymen’s convention. Nothing mattered more to a Christian than being right with God every day and every moment, Pastor Oswald said. To live that kind of life called for candid self-examination* That was hard. It was an easy matter and sometimes quite a pleasant pastime to examine the life of the other fellow, but it was self-examination in the light of Bible standards that was needed, Pastor Oswald said. It was God’s requirement of Christians. / “Awareness of the imminent second coming of Christ leads to thorough personal investigation of one's life,” said Pastor Oswald. “A pure, selfless life is full of happiness.” After Pastor Oswald’s address the delegates took part in an act of dedication. The dedicatory prayer was offered by Pastor A. R. Mitchell, the president of the South New Zealand Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 7
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