ECCLESIASTICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14146, 23 August 1909, Page 7

ECCLESIASTICAL.

CENTRAL MISSION. Large and enthusiastic audiences gathered in the Central Mission and His Majesty's Theatre yesterday, to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the Central Mission Christian Endeavour Society. The superintendent, Mr. J. T. Leafe, preached in the morning. In the evening the theatre was crowded, and addresses were given by Mr. Tom Read, Sister Annie, and Mr. Robert Beswiek. The orchestra played a selection, " Gloria," from Twelfth Mass," and the choir sang " Only Trust Him," the solo part being taken by Mr. J. H. Wood. Mr. H. Blakeley also sang a solo, " The Beautiful City of Rest." The annual Christian Endeavour tea will bo held on Wednesday evening in the Mission Hall, Albort-streot, when reports will bo given of home and foreign mission work of the society. SEAMEN'S SERVICES. The Missions to Seamen, Shortlandstreet, was crowded hurt, evening, when the missioner, Mr. A. P. Cowie, preC-died a sermon on the " Desired Haven." There was a splendid gathering of seamen and friends at the British and Foreign Sailors' Society's Mission Hall, Albertstreet, last night, when Mr. Ralph gavo an address on "The True Life." The singing was of a very hearty character. THEOSOPHY. At the Mutual Life Buildings last evening Mr. Stuart lectured on " Some Problems of Reincarnation." The lecturer dealt with his subject mainly from a mathematical standpoint. He said that it satisfied our craving for justice in nature, and that the varied experiences gained through many lives at last produced the well-rounded man of broad sympathies gained through experiences in many bodies. A large audience gathered at the Theosophical Hall last night to hear Mr. J. R. Thomson lecture upon "First Steps In Occultism." The lecturer claimed that spirituality could never bo developed by any method of breathing or control of bodily functions, but by the attitude of soul to everything external. To seo and discover the best in everyone and everything was true occultism, and this could only bo attained by the cultivation of the higher and the subduing of the lower nature.