Firm And True In Church Witness

Northern Advocate, 22 February 1940, Page 4

Firm And True In Church Witness

I Per Press Association. Copyright. ] WELLINGTON, This Day. ‘‘We are living in times when a challenge is set up before our Church and all the Christian churches of the land to be very firm and very true in their witness for Jesus Christ,” said the Moderator of the Centennial General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the fit. Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, at a moderatorial reception last night. Everyone was aware and had given expression to the thought on various occasions that the times were difficult for the people, said Mr Robinson, but there was no difficulty which could not be overcome if the people realised their own personal responsibility, rot only to their congregation, but to -he wider interest of the Church at large. In Own Hands. The Moderator said there was no doubt in his mind that the future was sound if the people were faithful. The solution of the difficulties was in the Church’s own hands. It had a message which belonged to no other institution but the Christian Church. People were seeing not the bankruptcy of Christianity, but the bankruptcy of anti-Christian forces. He urged the people always to remember the Church stood for the highest things. There was nothing to be ashamed of in being a member of the Church of Christ, and nothing be ashamed of in making it known one belonged to the Presbyterian branch of the great Christian family.