POLITICS AND RELIGION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9014, 29 March 1888, Page 5

POLITICS AND RELIGION.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. The Rev. L. M. Isitt, in the course of an address at tlie Wesleyan Church, said he did not know whether there was anything Pharisaical in the utterance, but he often thanked God that his religious training had not led him to Plymouthistic views. In the last day he would rather take his stand with the old Romans, who, in their ignorance, sacrificed their lives for their country than with a man who, in the flood light of Gospel teaching, flung away his grandest heritage, and interpreted the command "Come out from among them" as a divine injunction to spend his life in saving his own miserable little soul, and in seeking to add from the number of those already redeemed to the own narrow sect, while he, pleading Scripture as his guide, leaned back, and let his world drift to the devil. Mr. Isitt urged every member of the Christian Church to exercise his vote, and, if possible, spend his time and strength in toiling for the political good of the colony, remembering that the laws made to-day were shaping for weal or woe the destiny of a great'pee pie. He asked the congregation to let no narrow teaching persuude them that a man who entered civic or political office, consecrating his powers to his Maker and the service of humanity, was not doing a work that angels might covet, and that God smiled upon.