THE BURNED MISSION HOUSE AT WAIMA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5800, 1 May 1876, Page 3

THE BURNED MISSION HOUSE AT WAIMA.

Ai ill the Minions at all the WVsVyan C'lnmlif •. \rsli-ul.ij, t ii< i tial collection*, woiv undo toi the pui pose of mutating the Rev. \V. House, whose house at W.iima has been latch accidentally destioyed by lire. The several congregations responded liberally to the appeal made, and we understand that the amount thus obtained wil 1 , together with the handsome donal o is already promised, go far towards accomplishing the end in view. The prompt action of the members of this chinch in mulcting aid to a suffeiing pastoi and hia family, while it is highly to be piaised, is only characteiistic of the usual /eal which animates all their benevolent actions. In the Pitt-street Church the Uev. W. .1. "Williams preached in the morning from the Acts of the Apostles c. xxiv. , verse L'."), "And as he reasoned of righteousness, tempeiance, and |iidgment to come, Felix: trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this tune When 1 have a convenient season I will call for thee." The evening seivice was conducted by the Rev. W. Knk, who took his text from the Psalm lv , v. 17, "Evening and morning, and at noon w ill T pray, and cry aloud, and ho shall hear my voice."' — Mr. Kirk pleached also from the same te> i at the Grafton Road Church in the morning, Mr. Henry Ellis oilieiating there in the evening. Air. Ellis based his discourse upon the Epistle of Paul to the Komans, o. v., v. IT), "But not as the ofFu>co, so also is the free gift Foi if through the oflence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God and the «itt b} giace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many." — The Re/. J. Whewell occupied the pulpit at the Prrnell Chinch, choosing as his text the First Epistle of Peter, c. v., v. 10 and 11, "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus Christ, after that ye have sufleied awhile, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you." "To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever, amen. ' — The following are the amounts collected :— Pitt-stieet : Morning, i'l."> Is.; e\ eninpr, £9 l!)s Grafton ltoad : Morning, 1" t "s 7d ; e\ ening, L"2 0s. Gd. Parnell. £2 Ms. Total. f.'M 7s Id.