LECTURE ON ARGENTINA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 31, 31 October 1907, Page 9

LECTURE ON ARGENTINA.

.' .TJlie , ; Baptist- Church in . Vivian Street '.war J. crowded ,last night, when the Row Kobt. Elder, -v; of -Biienos Avres) delivered a vorv interesting lecture on Argentina—the land.: of to-morrow. Rev.' J"' J' Worth,. Who presided, referred: to! the , fact •'•lhajt the lecturer-' was'a- . NSw: Zealandcr, whose' mission work.' in • the South'"American' (Republic had been- markedly'successful. In'''' '.the courseiof. his remarks;i the Key-; Mr. Elder stated that, given... cortain 'moral conditions/: Argentina woijld surprise the world this' cen- 1 tury,-just as much as the United Statesidid'last century... Material.progress did:npt necea-,.;, sarily mean.moral progress. What tho nation,. Vfequitcd'most Was:the inculcation of the priucipies of'Christ."' Business'on Silndays.was not-;., now:; pcnnitted'• inV Bueno's " and ,it,wasprobanlo the' law 1 would,' ere .long, be made applicable to country. Last year,-a" : ;l .Bill, .-.having .;for. its .object the suppression of - the |'}lational- Lottery,- had 'been lost'-'by- only.- ''i a !feW| YO,tes..'Drunkenness was/certainly lori-.c-. tte increase,-,arid loading residents-were dif)-, buesiii s / \vhafc Estops .be taken to, with', the 'evil. .Ebmanism-.was. still the ,prin-. ~. . •cipal" 'religibri/' but. the , separation ;of the.."':! Church"from'-'the Stato "would; spoil be >n no- r '; complisiied fact.' Rationalism ' had," it was to." boj regretted,": obtained' a-"Btrong : 'hold." .Iri'":;': conclusion,-: Mr. Elder, said that his' object in,visiting the colonies was to collect the sum-: v of J&3000,: which was required to build • suit'ab m p'reinises ;.in,Buenos -Ayres' for..the Regions E V-r; ■yohd.'Missions.Society.- The/lecture, was jlhl-,-tratcd ■by a number''of excellent Umelig: .... .. views'.''. A' special'collection, was, taken; up:'