PRE-MILLENNIAL ADVENT CONFERENCE
The Very. Rev. Dr. Weeks, Dean of Nelson, speaking to a packed audience in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last evening on "Millennial Glories,"-said no theme was more suited to the end of tho conference,! though in some quarters -the study of this subject was discountenanced. It was held that the contemplation of such a remote contingency as the millennium cut the nerve of all energy and caused inertia in Christ's followers. Surely the exact opposite was the case; the assurance of good and stable government should incite to action. When'at-the Babylonish captivity the kingdom of Israel sank into irretrievable ruin, the prophets foretold the future King, who was to overturn all other authorities, the King in whom all nations should be blessed. During his reign the Jews should be restored to their own land, which should again blossom as the rose. 'The-church would share in the authority of her Lord, and a time of universal peace and prosperity be ushered in. They who looked for the millennium based their houes not upon the tortuous schemes of human policy, not upon that extraordinary phenomenon called modern democracy, but upon.God's Kins. '
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 49, 26 February 1921, Page 9
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