CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 6

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

INDUCTION OF NEW MINISTER. Before a big congregation, including representatives of other denominations, the Rev. Harry Johnson was last night inducted as minister of the Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church. After the invocatory prayer, whieh was offered by Pastor R. T. Wearne (Lower Hutt), the Rev. D. Jones, M.A. (Newtown) read the Scriptures. The church secretary (Mr. T, E. Reynolds) traced the events which had led up to a unanimous call being extended to the Rev. Johnson. The Rev. Johnson, iu replying, said that he believed that all his life he had been led by the spirit of God. In that way, he had been led to the mission iield in Africa and also to work in this country. He had no doubt he had been called liy God to the church. The Rev. C. Wickham (Terrace) then gave the induction prayer. The Rev. D. Gardner Miller (Christ, church), in his charge to the minister, told him to make the Supreme Book to become as his very meat and drink. He was not to allow the world to be the dominating factor in his life. 'The •speaker urged the new minister to adopt a pleading note in his utterances and to be responsible to the will of God and the needs of men. "I believe that nothing would ever take the place of the human voice to touch human beings,” lie said. "There is no contact of personalities by mechanism.” Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher charged the church that it should give the helping hand to those who were broken and battered by the sloi’in of life. The Church to-day was in the midst of a society which was hopeless. Never before was there so much immorality ns to-day. If ffie Church failed there was no hope of salvation.