BISHOP JULIUS AT TEE CATHEDRAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9488, 10 August 1891, Page 5

BISHOP JULIUS AT TEE CATHEDRAL.

Thera was a large congregation at the Cathedral yesterday morning, when the Bight' Eev the Bishop of Christchurch preached. His text was, Matthew xi., 28-30, “ Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden,” &c. There were now, he said, as in the time of Christ, very many that were weary and heavy laden, miserable and sorrow-stricken. Thar© was much weariness and sorrow in Christchurch as well as elsewhere. On the minds of men were heavy burdens, commercial, social, political and religious, and many were crying for rest. East was to be found in two ways : either by reducing the burden, or by increasing the strength to bear it. The first was the way of the gospel of to-day; the second was the way of the gospel of Christ, In illustration the Bishop referred to two important questions, one social and one religious—the divorce laws and religious The gospel of to-day was exemplified in the Divorce Bill now before Parliament, whereby those who had taken, for better or for worse, husbands or wives who became insane, or were brutal and cruel, were to be allowed to get rid of their burden, without regard to the binding and sacred nature of the marriage tie ; and the man who had made one woman miserable was to be set free to make other women miserable. In dealing with religious doubts, the gospel of to-day enjoined the troubled soul to dismiss one mystery of the Christian religion after another, till it came at last to absolute unbelief. The gospel oi Christ, however, called on all troubled ones to learn of Eim, to take His yoke upon them in the spirit in which He bora it, in meekness and lowliness of heart; to trust in Him, in whom alone they would find rest for their souls.