THE ROBERTSON CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 52, 10 September 1928, Page 3

THE ROBERTSON CAMPAIGN

The Rev. J. Robertson, H.A., of Christchurch, continued his "campaign for souls'' in the Vivian Street Baptist Church yesterday, when large congregations gathered to hear the messages of this earnest speaker. Aided by a large choir, led by Mr. J. R. Samson, with Mr. Charles Collins at the organ, the services yesterday were- very enthusiastic and successful.,, The Rev. P.' E. Harry conducted the devotional exercises, and the mjssioner preached in the morning on "I Must Work the Works of Him that Sent;Me, While it is. Called Day," and spoke of the great compelling urge in the soul of the Master, which drove Him to service and sacrifice for the race. That sense of obligation should be felt by every Christian, compelling him to fulfil his life's mission in service to humanity. In the afternoon Mr. Robertson addressed the young men and young women of the Bible classes, with a tea table conference following. In the evening the church was filled with listeners to a forceful utterance on Plate's question:. "What then shall I do with Jesus?" By his persistent egotism and guilty past, Pilate wag driven to the path of the time-server, and he failed to do the right thing in the greatest crisis in his tragic experience, Men and women have to remember that alternatives are constantly presented t» them in the realm of morals and the spirit; but there qan be no real ethical revolution wtihout the impact of God upon the soul. No one can really escape the challenge o£ God. The preacher made a passionate ap« peal for surrender to Christ, to which some of his hearers responded. Thig even. ing Mi-. Robertson will speak, and Mr> Harry Pargetter will sing.