UNSHAKEABLE THINGS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 155, 28 March 1932, Page 10

UNSHAKEABLE THINGS

Charter of National Liberty ORANGE LODGE SERVICE “The Bible is the charter of ou? national liberty,” said the Rev. L. J. Boulton Smith, of the Vivian Street Baptist Church, when addressing Orangemen and their friends who attended the divine service held by the • Loyal Orange Institution of New Zealand in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. “We are living in times when all denominational sectarian barriers should be abolished and every discordant note hushed,” he added. The Grand Master, Mr. G. M. Galbraith, of Auckland, presided. Prayers were offered by the Grand Chaplain, Mr. E. A. Benfell, and Mr. H. Thornley, and the two Scripture readings were taken by the Rev. J. ' Stephen Campbell and the Rev. T. A. Pybus. The qualifications of an Orangeman were recited by the District Chaplain, Mr. W. J. Lowe. A feature of tiie service was the singing of “The Holy City” by Miss Mary F. Holmes. Mr. H. Temple White was at the organ. The service closed with the singing of the National Anthem and the pronouncement of the Benediction by the Grand Chaplain. The subject of Mr. Boulton Smith’s address was “The Things That Cannot Be Shaken.” He said that amid the turmoil and troubles of life there were some things that could not be shaken. The reformation was as inevitable as the explosion of a boiler with no legitimate outlet; it was one of the greatest works that had shaken mankind, but it lifted men out of a false and artificial religion, out of their insecurities, and placed them on a rock from where they could not be removed. Protestanism was humanity’s best expression or search after reality—it was a movement that sprang out of a great shaking. The things which could not be shaken were the things on which they were building in the simplicity of their faith in Almighty God. The things that could not be shaken remained to-day as they were during the perilous times of the past.