MISSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1933, Page 2

MISSIONS

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH At the beginning of the Mission Service on Tuesday evening, Archdeacon Jermyn presented the two niissioners, the Rev. R. Hodgson and Corp!'- H. Squires, C.A., to the Bishop of Nelson for his Episcopal blessing. The Bishop commended the Mission as a call to the impenitent to face and reflect on sin, a challenge to the careless and atheist and a recall of all our people to Christian standards in private and public life. The Missionms knelt at the altar rails, whilst the Bishop solemnly blessed them and. prayed' for the Mission. After a short silence, the kneeling congregation sang “Spirit of the Living Cod, fall afresh on me.” The Rev. R. Hodgson gave an Evangelistic address on the parlytic cured by Jesus (S. Mark 2. V. I—12). Before hpaling his body Jesus forgave him his sin. Jesus Christ cares for men’s bodies more than we do. Ho bad a passion for soul righteousness, good working and living conditions, ju-dicr* and lair play. But these tilings are secondary io the ground Irorn which they spring—the soul and ic; needs. Therefore Christ pul. first tilings first and taught the Father’s love ami forgiveness. Cod yearns to cure the disease al. the heart, of the world.

A short instruction on the atonement followed the address: The Cross faces the fact of sin and deals vic l.criously with it. Before Jesus Christ came there were two barriers, Cod’s unknewableness and man’s sin. The These might be likened to two systems of barbed wired entanglements with a No-Man's Land between. The first movement, is from Cod. Jesus, the Son of Cod, came out from Cod to find and reach those who could' not reach Him. He has broken through those barbed wire entanglements and made it possible for Cod and man to be at one. The Cross stands as a beacon of hope in No.-Man’s Land, a symbol of the victorious love of Cod. which has broken through to deliver man from the entanglement of sin. The Children’s Mission, conducted by Captain H. Squires, continues each day.