THE ANGLICAN MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 933, 28 September 1910, Page 9

THE ANGLICAN MISSION.

/■■'..'..".• WOMEN'S MEETINGS. ... Keen interest is being displayed in the for : : women which are being held in tlie Seamen's Institute.every day this week, save Saturday, and. yesterday 'at both' gatherings a very good attehdanec was present. l Miss Whitaker ■ and Miss England. were the stewards, and: saw that everyone.was provided - with books. In his; address. Canon Stuart said tha't.he' wished to'place before, them all seven : mottoes.. beginning with , the letter '-'L," which he thought would prove'veryhelpful .in daily;; life. 'The first was "Looking •to Jesus." In ; .the old'.- days of Biblical history the children of Israel were punished .'by a' plague of serpents sent because, of their incessant grumbling .and.:repining. So great was their: punishment that Moses was, finally commanded to make a fiery' serpent "of brass, and set it upon a pole so .that: all could. seo\ it. By. looking up, to it all who were 1 bitten became cured..'.So it is with people how. .They.mnst look, to Jesns for sal-! vation. from : sin.' . The. second motto is:' "Loving ■Jesus.'?'-.' When one looks at, the -persecution He. suffered and the wonderful work He has.done/love must come for him. ?■ The third is. "Leaning _upon Jesus." ' By: doing: so, 60rrbw, anxiety, and care is thrown away. The.only way to come out of the wilderness is to cast one's burden upon Him, and so becoming tsustaihedt»;-;>iTho • fourth runs, "Led, by Jesus.": It may seem that: those, ways,; .'take one through'strange places', but they ~are !really^mcant«to-vteach .reliance -and; ti-usrt upon Him: ; .' The fifth is;."Leaning upon .Jesus"; the ;.sixth,:,."Longing for Jesus"; and the seventh;. "Living with JcSUs:?. ." v■.■■■, v Bishop Julius, who followed after a brief'interval, founded' his address upon the 23rd chapter of The. Acts, where Paul was brought before the, Roman, governor Festus.by the Jews, because of. his teachings concerning one Jesus. This,governor was in great, perplexity. The whole question ;hurig upon "one, Jesus," not' about anything that/Paul;,had, -done . to.'.the. Jews. .To-day .the; question, js-not about . ritual/ ceremonious observances,' Eomahs ori'Protestants, but about, , one -, Jesiss,, What.;- was. bringing .'everyone'here 'that day'.but the .question, of, "one: Jesus"— whom He. is?" .Very-;many. ' theories, haye from time to time .arisen' about .'this, ques-tion-rpeople-have jumped from this .theory ,to that, ; and now, what' .has; become of', them ? Clean .vanished. •'.'■.. Another question .about '■ this "one Jesus" is taking hold of people, in the ".Old;; Country/ and in; a little.'while . it,will ..get Jiere when; lots of people will i>e forming sects and parties, saying/"This is' what T'think of Jesus." ;For' himselfj'he believed exactly', of Jesiis - Christ what' Paul preached 2000' years ago,-' and ■■ he. ; saw.. no • reason to, change it. The'question arises, ,but the.answer of_ the Catholic -Church' •stands fast: "I .believe that Jesus ...Christ was the Son: of 'God." In. thosei days they little thought that that Name was to ring, through '.the centuries the rallying point'.of thousands; of men- and 'women .who have given. their-lives for...that dear ■Name—that it would' live' when i tho-name would-have -vanished and 1 have been ,forgotte'n' save, in this connection. To ■■' women ... .especially,';- the:..'speaker thought, tho name ought to-bo.'very'■''dear, for .what has he'not done'for them,? They ewe, everything- in ■ their, present'; positionin the world to 'Him—every. dignity■' they possess, f One .has, only, to 'think l of the place-that women occupied in those times to ■realiss'it.: If'God'lms done "anything for humanity-He has.dbheiit, for; woinen particularly, and/for a '.woman, to.'turn' against Jesus ".Christ .with, her talk, her. pen, or her heart, seemed to.'. him : to.'be an utterly horrible thing. Bishop Julius brought his address to a close by. putting the 'question.to tho gathering, "What was to be',their relation, to that 'one Jesus'? ■What would they make it?"