ANGLICAN MISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 94, 18 October 1910, Page 2

ANGLICAN MISSION.

SUBURBAN CHURCHES. In the suburban churches services in connection with the Anglican Church Mission continue to attract large congregations. At St. Matthew's, Brooklyn, last evening, the missioner (Rev. Mr. Horan) read the chapter from the .Book of Kings describing the awakening of Elisha and his servant to find themselves surrounded by the Assyrian army. He. selected as his text Elisha's prayer to God : "Lord, I pray Thee open his eyes that he may see." He urged all to pray to God earnestly that their eyes might be opened to see the dangerous path they were treading; also that they might see the all-happy life that could be. lived in this world, and the reward to be obtained hereafter through Christ, who would keep all men from the paths of unrighteousness. At the after meeting, at which nearly the whole of the congregation remained, the subject was, "What is Repentance?" (tp-night ( the subject is ''How' to Repent.") He illustrated this by showing the negative side, "what is not repentance. " Repentance is not fear; there is no need to come to God in fear. The mission will be continued this evening at 7 o'clock, with an open-air procession, to be followed by a mission service at 7.45 o'clock. The mission at Eastbourne, which is being conducted by the Rev.' Prebendary H. V. Stuart, rector of Stoke-on-Trent, England, concludes to-night by a service at 8 o'clock. The missioner's helpful and straight-out talks to the people have apparently much impressed the congregations. There have been many services daily, all well attended. About ISO men attended a. service for men only which was held in the Karorj Anglican Church on Sunday afternoon. The meeting was the most successful of its kind yet held in the district. An overflow meeting ailso took place in the evening, while last night the- church, was again crowded, This morning at the early celebration of the Holy Communion, there was a record attendant*, some 90 communicants being present. The missioned 1 is the Rev. Mr. Caiteret. At Island Bay the attendance of communiicants at the daily celebration at 7 a.m. to pray for the mission shows the earnestness with which the members of St. Hilda's are inspired. On 'Mfiinday evening, at the mission service, the ■churchroom was packed, it being impossible to place any mare people within the building. The vicar aflinounced that as it was only just possible to hold the Monday evening service, which in a mission is always tha weakest evening for attendance, it had been decided to hold the remaining evening serviofls in the Assembly Hall, in order to find apcomTOodation for those who desire $0 attend the mission. Mr. Fa-rrer took ac the subject of his first addr*sß the payable cf Dives and Lazaa-us. He drew from the para-ble the lesson of the man who lives with God, and the mam who Jives without God. Th.c former gains happiness and peace ; the latter bitterness amd Mihappipesg in this life. The second lesson was an instruction in "How God Reveals Himself." The missioner, in a aimple, lucid, and logical address, placed before the congregation the 1 evidences of the divinity of Jesus Cha'ist. To-night the services wili be held in. the Assembly Hall.