ENDEAVOURERS' CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 761, 9 March 1910, Page 7

ENDEAVOURERS' CONFERENCE

':' Meetings • iu. connection with . the" sixteenth anhuAi.'.co&veutibn of the Wei-., lington Provincial''- Christian Endeavour :Union were continued yesterday.. .'. ■ .-. /The first write, took place' in the afternoon, at the Taranaki Street Schoolroom, and the./retiring president,, the UeV. T. Keith Ewouy was in tho chair.., Theftov, W, Shiref ' delivered an address dealing ..with the needs .of . the Church. He.pointed out that there, waa Urgent need for practical piety and practical ' mysticism'. Eiideavou'rers .'would do well, he Said, to instil into their Christianity the practical element—commons sense doing and acting. In regard ; to the second point, Mr. Shirer said that there were profound' mysteries .in relation to'i the - personal-- Christ, and the hnion of believers to Him. That union need not necessarily. be dreamy or obscure. The' Apostle Paul waS a mystic, but, withal, intensely practical. It had been said that ".one-sided overstrained .mysticism ,lcd to its. bppoMte, bhe-sided rationalism/' In illustration .of the heed for the practical the speaker quoted several Scriptural examples of..' practical men.. ChristianEiidehvourera were : called to be co-workers/ with fed, and they ought.to claim tin ihcrease of Spiritual power. .They should, recognise the importance of organisation in practical frbrk, and they, should', cultivate 'deeper fellowship, for life and service. Finally,. Mr. Shirer urged that the more spiritual a man's nature, the more/should he-be concerned with the needs of others. ■; The cbnvebtibn heartily thanked Mr. Shirer fot his address. ' Later in. the afternoon, the Junior Workers' Confereitfce. was held, in the Taranaki Street pehoclrboni. ; Ih the evening, a snered cotfeert - Was given in the Kent Terrace Presbyterian ChUfch.' The Wesley Orchestra played a. number of selections, and other items were | contributed as follow Misses Muriel Bennett,' S. : Hamiltbn, Mueller, Mbssrs. H. Holland. TV. R..Potter,' and J. 1 Bewley; diiet, Messrs. W. R. Potter and H. Holland) recitatibns, Misses Dii and Luke; ' violin sblos,. Messrs. B. Eslv and Hudson t trombone solo, Mr. F. Ha"tch; flute solo, Mr, Good-, child; clanonette solo, Mr. F. Harle'n. Miss Muriel Betty played the accompaniments. . ' -.-'•'.■' "•'-.'-.■ A picnic will be held to-day at the Hutt Park. In the evening the Eev. T., Keith Ewcn Will preside/at meetings in. the Petone Baptist Church. A prater meeting takes place at 7.30 o'clock, ; and,' froniS till 9 o'clock, an open parlianient frill be held.