' PORT PRESBYTERIAN CEUROH.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10922, 23 May 1898, Page 3

PORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

In the Port P/eßbyterlan Chnroh last night, the Roy. Charles Connor preaohlng from Psalms 119, 54, " Thy statutes have been my songs In the home of my pilgrimoge," ipoke of Gladstone's life— "lb 1b fitting that in onr Christian Charohea," said tbe preacher, "we ßhonld make «ome reference to the late W. E. Gladstone, whose long ptlgrimngo has come to Hi happy end. lie was great as a scholar, as a thinker, aa an orator, as a statetman, bat he was contest of all as a Chtistlan man. Hit work is done, and estimates of lto vnlae trom political points of view will be abundantly Riven where it la right they should be Riven. Bat with this we have nothing here to do. In the ChtletlauChtueh let as hope, he may dwell Id a region "where beyond these voices there is peace." It Is uearly 20 years ilnce I listened to the Old Man eloqnenr, bat the bright, melodious, triumphant notes are sounding in my ears to-day :— " These are the alma 1 set before me in my youth, for these things 1 have labored in manhood, and for these I atlll labor though my looks be prey." There was evtr a rational hope* fulness in Gladstone, beoauee of that faith which Is tbe evldouco of things nod Been. Them was always mnelo in his heart. He bad learned tbe Psalmist's teoiet. The statute* of the Lord were his sodb in the honeß of hio pilgrimage.