SPIRITUAL TREASURE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 60, 4 December 1933, Page 10

SPIRITUAL TREASURE

Sermon by Archbishop That the young people had a treasure in things new and old in the Spiritual Kingdom, a treasure that was thought too little of, was the substance of the special sermon at St. Alary’s Anglican Church, Karori, by Archbishop Julius, of Christchurch, in preaching to the youth of the church. The service, which was otherwise conducted by the Rev. F. Al. Kempthorne, was in connection with the Church of England youth for youth campaign. Notwithstanding the "fact that extra seating accommodation had been provided, the church was crowded to capacity.

In the grandeur of the race that had brought them up, their language, their liberties, the young people had treasures given to them by God that all tlie paintings and books in creation could not touch. Those which they inherited were to be strengthened and handed down to posterity a little better, a little grander, a little richer. The age in which we lived was a restless one, said his Grace, and there was always the tendency to prefer modern slang to grand old English. He described the variety of articles to be found in a curiosity shop, and said that the religion of a large number of people was a curiosity shop. It was in one form one day, and in another form the next. They picked it up, just as oue would pick up a thing in a curiosity shop, because it was cheap, and cheap it was. He appealed to youth to be careful.

He ventured to say that the Christian faith was a greater thing to-day than in the days of the Apostle Paul; it had been added to. He urged the young people not to be afraid of anything new, and not to think a thing was necessarily wrong because it was new. They were all very wealthy if they only knew it.