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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 57, 29 November 1924, Page 3

RELIGIOUS SERVICES. K ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 23 Wellington Terrace. Preacher; REV. S. ROBERTSON ORIt. 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Evening Subject: “QUESTION NIGHT” (The last for a year). 1. you support Assembly’s prohibition of dancing? 2. —ls a man justified in breaking the law? 3. Has the Church nothing to say on birth control V . 4. Is it not essential for the Kingdom of God that birth-rate should exceed death-rate among white races? 5. Why are there so many empty seats in the most of Churches? 6. Can anyone logically accept the Bible Heaven and reject the Bible Hell? QT. JOIIN’B CHURCH. WILLIS ST. (Presbyterian.) TO-MORROW. Morning, 11. Evening, 7. REV. DR. GIBB. Evening: "Victorious Possibilities.” riIHE TERRACE CONGREGATIONAL JL CHURCH. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30. Morning—REV. FRANK DE LISLE. Anthem: "Sleepers, Wake” (Mendelssohn). FAREWELL TO MISS EDMANSON, Recently appointed Matron to the London Mfissjonary Society’s Hospital at Tien Tein. Afternoon, at 3.30, in the Sunday School. Evening, at 7, MR. F. MEADOWCROFT Solo: “Thus saith the Lord’ (Handel), Mr. Colin Trimm. , Anthem: “O, Day Spring (Stainer). CAMBRIDGE , TERRACE kJ Congregational Church. 11 a.m.—MR. H. D. C. HORWOOD. 7 p.m.—REV. W. S. ROLLINGS. An Open Invitation to all. y M.C.A., WILLIS STREET. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 4 p.m—Men’s Meeting. 5 p.m. —Strangers’ Tea. All Men Invited. J. L. HAY, Gen. Sec. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. First church of Christ, SCIENTIST. 46 Boulcott Street, Wellington (Branch of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.). SERVICES: Sunday, 7 p.m. Sunday School, 2.30 p.m. Wednesday—Testimony Meeting, o p.m. Reading Room, 46 Boulcott Street. Open daily, 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (except Saturdays, Sundays, and Public Holidays). Free Circulating Library of Mrs. Eddy s works available at Reading Room. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Second church of christ, SCIENTIST, WELLINGTON, N.Z. Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. SERVICES: ACCOUNTANTS’ HALL, 39 Johnston Street, Welllington. Sunday, 7 p.m. Sunday School, 3 p.m. Wednesday, Testimony Meeting, 8 p.m. All are Cordially Invited Reading Room and Free Circulating Library, 8 Cooper s Buildings, Willis Street. Open daily, except Saturdays from 12.30 to 4 p.m., and Wednesday evenings, from 6 to 7.45 p.m. Free Literature can be obtained at the Services. ■ maranatha” MARANATHA. BE ye also patient, stablish y°“ r hearts; for the Coming of. tihe Lord draweth nigh.” A .local minister of the Gospel, on an occasion some years ago, said to us something like don’t believe that Christ is coming again to close up His Church on as a bankrupt concern.. This is precisely what we believe is going to happen. The question which Our Lord Himself raised “When the Son of Man cometh dhall He find' faith (or the Faith”) on the earth, implied that He would not find the Faith on the earth. We wish fiat our ministers could be brought to realise that the Church is fighting for her life. To hold fast to the Word to close up the ranks and pray to the Lord to hasten His Coming is the urue attitude to-day. Some y.®*” ago, when we commenced these, articles there was a report each week in 1 e Dominion” of the addresses of a lecturer who continually made the most offensive references to the Christian Faith. We took the matter up, and that lecturer is no longer in New Zealand and his addresses appear no more in "The Dominion.” A week or two ago appeared a report of an address by the Rev. Mr. Harry, and we were glad to notice that he was courageous enough to speak out about ilhe growing laxity of morals in the community. It is a duty expected of our ministers that they should be preachers of , rl^l l t ® ol J. sness while condemning sin and wickedness. We were not a little surprised to notice that Mr. J. D. Sievwright was permitted to . reply in such abusive style as it ought to be a matter for gratification to minds less perverted than Mr. Harry’s" We reckon that a minister of the Gospel should have more respect paid to him than to allow any person tn reply in such a strain. But the day is fast approaching when the voices of the preachers of righteousness shall be stilled. We read a few weeks ago or the Artists’ Ball in Sydney. .It is only the restraints that have been imposed by Christian workers thatf such episodes as the Artists’ Ball are not of more frequent occurrence,- both here and in oyaney. Last week our /f Ala. Ta natha announcement appeared also in the /Evening Post," and it brought an inquiry addressed to us care of the Publisher. “I was very much interested in your letter (?) in last Saturday’s Tost* in reference to the Second doming. Christians generaly accept the doctrine ot Christ’s return to the earth in order to translate His Church. But when? If the event was to take place now, it seems to mo that there are a sufficient number of people (I am speaking of Bridish communities) who cannot be described as Christians, but citizens who stand for law and order, people who are Christians without Christ—Theosophists. Unitarians, etc... Are there not sufficient people of this sort lb keep tho place clean if the household of faith were all called away in one act? Or do you think that the dividing line will be sharper drawn, and that when the dav arrives that iliero will be very few docent people left, let alone Christians who are really Christians?” As this seems a genuine inquiry, we would ask the writer to consider what we have already stated. Christ has left His peopie hero to be rr the salt of tho earth. When He takes them the earth will rapidly become as it was in the days of the antediluvians or as of Sodom and Gomorrah. St. Luke xxi tells us wffiat the conditions are to be when Our Lord cbmes, and we are to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape the things that shall come to pass on the earth when the groat day of tribulation and of God’s wrath begins.

XyfTiHOSOEVER was not found written »V in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. Rev. 20:15. Say unto them, as I live, saith the Lord God 1 have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from bis way and live: Ezek. 33:11. I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we mav lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable Tn the sight of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesua, Who gave himself a ransom for all, to testified, in dir? HmSu I Ti»i. R.. 1-8-