ST. JAMES'S CHURCH.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 28, 4 December 1930, Page 8

ST. JAMES'S CHURCH.

Their Excellencies, Lord and ?2ady Bledisloe and suite, attended morning service at St. James's Church on gjigiday last. His Excellency read the Leesons from the Qld and New Testament. The Legion of Frontiersmen under Major Armstrong, also, attended on Church Parade and after the service His Excellency inspected the company. *". The service was conducted by the vieav, Yon. Arhcdeacon Hansell who ; preaciied from the- text •«'I/ata ifliqt ashamed of the Gospel of Chri3t." Many among the Jews and the Greefcs to whom St. Paul preached^ were ashamed' .of the Gospel especially.X3^>th» Gross, but h& after putting it to; th© test of experience was/not ashamed"! %c l' 'gloried:.in it,?•*; because it had saved him and1 he. was convinced that this Gospel of service and sacrifice was tile only one which could possibly save the ■world, i What about ourselves? agfcfld, the preacher. Aro we a bit ashamed? What would those in ow home, office,-

or society, say of us? What about the future? Though an immense boon, to individuals arid civilisation in the jjM&ty has the Gospel of Christ seen its.'diMrf Thank God for science, 'but science ballot t^ci our boys "to. be brave,. hojßkfpt* •true': ari<l^pur&^fcoj&lty, service* a^Cfir iice were the ideals behind such a xsqv» jaent as the League of Frontiersxnyßnw Blow f yjgQ3^*i&te&hs&)&£pj^. those ideals, without religionf "the brotherhood of man*.can only be effectively taught through, the ratherhptod of <?od, .the central doctrine of' j|w teaching of Christ. The truth is*'"^o--ligion is of first rate importance in lifef yesterday, to-day and forever. The; op^ posite to this philosophy ia tv&atiflf called ■' * Worldliness,' > that is org&fUs* ing our life apart from God and xfjßs* ion. Sooner or later vm have to nM&ei the choice between these two phi^oeor phies. There is no possibility of cipm-< promise. "Ye cannot serve God and^ ■MaHimon." ;