"CHRIST OR CHAOS?"

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 10

"CHRIST OR CHAOS?"

PRE^MILLENNIAL ADVENT.

A largo gathering in the Concert Chamber of tho Town Hail was addressed last evening by tho Rev. J. W. Kemp, of Auckland, on the subject, of "The Christ of the First and Last Centuries of tho Present Era." The speaker said he believed that at the back of all tho confusion and turmoil of the day tho question Was confronting men as to whether they were to take their stand with Christ or chaos. Faith had failed in the churches, and the apostasy would increase as the end of tho age drew near. Christianity could not bo divorced from the Person of Christ, the Son of God and the Complete Man. From a email beginning the church had increased, until it became a dominant power on the earth, and honour had been paid to it. There had been a numerical increase in believers, but the growth of Christianity could not be measured by ecclesiastical statistics. In tho early Christian church. Christ .was the centre, the object of tho hope, lovo and confidence of his followers. Now in the last centuries of the present era, instead of being a greater, grander, and more exalted figure. He had been divested of His divinity and reduced to the .level of an ordinary man. His character as a man had even been impugned, as when a Socialist called Him weak a-nd impulsive, and the French author Renan accused Him of wilful imposture.