ECCLESIASTICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 3 June 1907, Page 6

ECCLESIASTICAL.

; THE CENTRAL MISSION. I At the Central Mission service held in His Majesty's Theatre last • evening the" Rev. Henry rattan Guinness, D.D., the venerable founder of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, preached to a large and appreciative congregation from the text, "Not that which is first./ is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual." ; The evangelist, who has sent a thousand missionaries into'the foreign field, gave a detailed historical ' survey of the supremacy of the spiritual over the natural, as represented ? by Old Testament history and New Testament history. '•'••■• Mr Brackenrig, the local representative of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, was present on the platform'. ' ' METHODIST MISSION. .The annual thanksgiving day in connection ; with the Auckland Methodist Mission was held yesterday. Services were held in the Pitt-street Church at seven o'clock in the morning, and at eleven o'clock in the Orange Hal!/- the Rev. J. Wilson and Mr. J. Lock taking, charge. At three o'clock, in the Foresters' Hall, the Rev. J. "Wilson spoke on the subject, "A Manly Religion." Miss Lee and Mr. W. Manning rendered volos, and Miss R. Muldoon was the accompanist. Tlie Newton Band also gave selec*l,oo3 - ~l n th evening, at seven o'clock, Mr. Wilson again spoke, choosing tho subject, The Great .Starting Point." Miss Conway rendered a solo. _ Services were also held in tho Helping Hand Mission Hall, Freeman's Bav. At the eleven o'clock gathering. Mr. T. Clark led the service,: and Miss A. McLennan spoke. An ' ©vengelistic service was held at seven o'clock, Mr. W. Stewart having charge.; All the meetings were well at- , tended, and self-denial offerings were made. This evening the celebrations will be continued in the Foresters' Hall, Newton. The Rev J. Wilson will give an address on Life in New Zealand and Victorian Prisons. - Admission will .be bv ticket, the proceeds to go i' to the self-denial fund. A special _ praise service will be held in the Orange Hall. Newton Arcade, at half-past seven, on Wednesday evening, when a de,c,aration'of the self-denial results will be made. :•:•.: ..,'" : • •■

At the Opera House yesterday the services of the People's Mission were' largely attended. Mr. A. J. Black addressed men only in the afternoon, taking as his topic "•Young Men's. Battles."• In the evening the sermon was on "Peace and War," with special references to the, Peace Congress. At the rooms of the Auckland Theosophical Society, Mutual Life Buildings, last evening, the usual weekly public lecture was delivered by Mr. S. Stewart, Under the title! of The Evolution of Knowledge." The lecturer, traced the growth of knowledge from earliest times. A discussion followed. Mr. A. C. "Vicary delivered « lecture before tho H.P.B. branch of the Thcosopliical Society last night, the subject title being "The- Harmony of Life."