THE HENRY MISSION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15331, 14 June 1910, Page 9

THE HENRY MISSION.

LAST EVENING'S MEETING. Dr Henry's evangelical mission, was continued last evening in tho large hall at His Majesty's Theatre, in the presence of a very largo audience.' Dr Henry took as his text 11. Chronicles, 33, 13, i' Then Manasseh knew that the Lord Ho was God." Dr Honry instanced two cases of the conversion of men who had lived a criminal life in England, and said that thero was no question that Manasseh, king of Judah, had led tho people of God from one degradation until they committed more sin than the heathen that surrounded them, and up till tho time of his conversion he had "been tho most sinful man in tho kingdom. God had therefore warned him that unless he repented of his sin he would bo destroyed. Manaeseh's principal sin was idolatry, a sin still very prevalent in the world, for any man was an idolator ' who placed on the throne of his life anvthing but the true and living God. It would indeed be better for his audience to take their-chances with, the heathen to whom the message had not been proclaimed than to go down to hell from Christchurch and tho mission, notwithstanding the repeated calls of God. It was not until Manasseh was an afflicted man before God that he became penitent, when his city was sacked by tho Assyrians and he had been carried off to Babylon, a captive plavthing of a heathon king. Thousands of men to-day were on the same road. The most expensive thing in the world was sin, and every man and woman who indulged in it must pay the penalty. When Manasseh was afflicted he humbled himself greatly and God. and every sinner who was afflicted, if he humbled himsolf and entreated God, would be saved. No man over got so far away from God that if ho willed to be saved he would not be saved. ..At the close of tho address, during prayer,, a number of penitents confessed their wish to bo prayed for. _ To-day there will bo the usual meeting for business men at 1.15 p.m., and the subjoct of Dr Henry's address will be The Indestructibility of the Bible." At 3 p.m. there will bo a Bible reading, and at 7.30 p.m. the usual evening meeting. The subject will bo " Broken Hedges and Broken Hearts."