ANGLICAN MISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 81, 3 October 1910, Page 2

ANGLICAN MISSION.

SUNDAY SERVICES. CROWDED CHURCHES. After a week of enthusiastic advance meetings conducted by the Rev. Canon E. A. Stuart and Bishop Julius, of Christchurch, the Anglican missioners addressed crowded churches in the city and suburbs yesterday. The missioners were distributed as follow : — St. Paul's, Canon Ivens ; St. Peter's, Rev. J. C. Fitzgerald and G. C. Cruickshank; St. Mark'e, Rev. G. F. C. de Cateret; St. Thomas's, Newtown, Rev. Prebendary H. V. Stuart and Mr. "Joe" Harris, Bristol coalminer; Petone, Rev. C. T. Horan j Lower Hutt, , Canon E. A. Stuart. ST. PAUL'S. The Rev. Canon Ivens, M.A., Vicax of Sowerby and Canon of Wakefield, conducted the services at St. Paul's. There were large congregations througout the day. He preached at matins on "Jesus Christ as the One Fowndaiion of the Christian's Life." A men's service was held in the afternoon, when the missioner spoke on "Some- Missing Links in the Religion of Men To-day." He also addressed the children at 10:45 a.m. in the Tinakori-road Churchxo<«n. In the evening the text of bis sermon was "What sayesfc thou of thyself ?" — the question put to St. John tho Baptist by the scribes and Pharisees. ST. PETER'S. The Rev. J. C. Fitzgerald took as the text and keynote of his mission at St. Peter's "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold thy King Cometh." Yesterday afternoon he gave a striking address to men on the question, "Why men should be religious." Christianity, he said, was the best friend of labour. What was needed was a great brotherhood of love that would win the world for God. He condemned the growing practice of the limitation of families, one of the greatest curses of the Old Country. He was shocked to find that it had got a hold in this young Dominion. The subject for the address of the evening was "The Great Dividing Line. " The missioner took the opportunity to make it an appeal to full conversion, which was not merely a change to respectability, but a kirning of the will from sin to righteousness. The mission was a mirror in which th«y could see themselves hi then; true light. Jesus Christ was the Reformer who could transform New Zealand. ST. MARK'S. Tho. mission services at St. park's, conducted by the Rev. G. F. C. de Carteret, vicar of dmstchurch, East Greenwich, ware enthusiastically received by large congregations. On Sunday morning the missioner spoke earnestly from the words, "Lord, what ia man, thai Thou are mindful of him?" In the afternoon the missioner addressed the children, and lates: conducted a men's service. The evening service saw the church crowded to its full capacity. An elonueavt sermon was m-eached on the text, '^The Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him : 'Where art thouj' " The characteristic feature of the Christian religion, he said, was the soarch'by God for man. ST. THOMAS'S. Large numbers attended all tho mission iservices at St. Thomas's Church, Newtown. On Saturday night the missionor, the Rev. Prebendary H. V. Stuart, M.A., addressed an open-air service at the intersection of Rintoul amd Riddi f ord-streets . The text of the missioner's chief addrees on Sunday was, "Dome unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." PETONE AND HUTT. The Rev. C. T. Horan conducted the mission, services at Petono before large congregations. The R.av. Canon Stuart carried on the work at -Lower Hutt. Tho vicar of Petane, the Rev. J. D. Russell, assisted. The purpose- of the mission was explained. It was to strengthen those already standing in the faith, to comfort tho weak-hearted, to raise up the fallen, and, finally, to beat down Satan. Tho circumstances, said the missioner, were much harder than any he saw in England.