EÇLESIASTICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13147, 9 April 1906, Page 6

EÇLESIASTICAL.

THE CENTRAL MISSION'. At the Albert Hail yesterday mc.rnlnf Mr. A. Black, the mission«r, piearhc-ri » very helpful sermon to Christian'. taking, a. his "theme the utterances of tin Saviour oa Mount Calvary. The shipping workers, «onducted a meeting on board 1 ' 1 '" Norwegian sailing ve«el. Suzanne, at tin* Jlch-on-street Wharf. The congregation at, Hi? Mi. jetty's Theatre in the evening "a- » larg* one" and the missioned took as lii» subject ".So near and yet so far. Pho enlarged choir and orchestra occupied a .-peeially raised dais on the stage, and rendered a ,» r . vice of sacred song, including anth-.:m am! quartettes, under the baton or" Mr. it. Vi. Johnstone. During tit." servn-;, wliK-n M preceded by an open-air meeting in iter,, street, - Tho Silver Chord and " I .-ad. Kindly Liitht." were rendered m ifi-t ami quartette form, and Mr. I.oauer »-:• n_- ■'\\ elcome. Wanderer, Home. M W . H. Smith, the tuition siiperinteuuent. ai.. nouuced that special services to: tin- «:.< 1" ni:e_' of spiritual lite will be in el at tin. .Mi-. 'son Hall all day on Good Friday, wnen lis* Kevs. (..ray Dixon and Cut inn-wood w;li preach.

THE AUCKLAND METHODIST MISSION.

Largeiy-ai'uiiied meetings in roriKctioD with iho M'thoth.it .Mission \\«.*io iioiu m tin' Helping" Hand. Foresters and Uningo Hull* y.-teiday, and addt'er-.-i". wort' sjivtMi by tin-" Key.-. kotliwoll. D.'ivi- _ and Wii.-<.ii, and Mev-rs. I one-- and Bank.-., from tin.- v.atships. < jn-he.-iral and \ixal mu.-ie and heartv sinking were special nature-. and number-, were contributed by Mrs. \\ o»,iis and the mission xk-o party. I lie lm-.-iou orchestra, under .Mr. J. 1 remain, and the splendid baud of the mission, led by Mr. 1 1. F. Cater, rendered good .service in Nowtoii, while the Helping Hand Band, under Mr. 11. Hill, ga\»- valuable assistance at ireeman's Bay.

THE SALVATION* ARMY. Commissioner McKie, head of the Salva*

tion Army for Australasia, now on an otticiai visit "to Auckland, conducted somv 1111J port of Ik its' councils on .Saturday, at. j which delegates were gathered from 16 i branches ot' the organisation. Special reI vival services wore held on Sunday mornj ing at Newton. when the Army Hall v «is | packed to overflowing, and at. the Opera : House in the afternoon and at night. Wry i large crowds attended. The Commissioner ! and members of his staff delivered stirring addresses, which were _ interspersed with ! heartv singing, characteristic of the organiI sation. A large number of penitents went | forward at the close of the services. | Commissioner McKie. who is now closing i a month's tour in the colony, speaks hopes j fully of the work being conducted by the. j Army in the various centres.. In many places lie found decided advances made j since his visit last year. | — THEOSOPHY. At the rooms of the Auckland Theosopliieal Society, Mutual Life Buildings, on Sunday evening, Mr. B. Kent delivered a. lecture entitled '"Beyond the Veil of Matter." An in fare-sting discussion followed.

At the H.P.B. branch of the Thecsophica I Society last- night Mr. .1. 11. Simpson lectured to a laree audience, his subject being "Evolution: Darwinian and Occult.