ECCLESIASTICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14854, 4 December 1911, Page 5

ECCLESIASTICAL.

Y.M.C.A. The Y.M.C.A. welcomed, a number of strangers to its meetings yesterday, and a number remained for the social tea at five o'clock. The speaker for the afternoon was the Rev. George Tregear, of West Australia, who .in a very bright and inspiring address spoke on a subject from Old Testament history called "A Great Conquest by Young i Men." Mr. W. J. England presided at the organ. ."< CENTRAL MISSION. Yesterday's meetings in connection with the Central Mission began at 10 a.m., when a meeting was conducted on board the s.s. Pakeha by the shipping workers. At the same. hour an open-air meeting was held at the foot of Queen-street by members of the brass band. At 11 a.m. Mr. Bissett preached.in the Albert-street Hall on "The Right Man in the Right Place," the monthly comunion service being held at the close of this meeting; In the theatre at 6.45 a short service of song was given, the "people's service" at seven p.m. being addressed by Mr. Bissett, who spoke on "The Decapolis Wonder: a Sight Worth Seeing." During this service a solo, "Somebody Cares," was rendered by Miss Alics Rimmer. At the close of the evening service a short open-air meeting was conducted at the foot, of Wyndham-street, after which the members marched to the Mission Hall, where an after-meeting was held. .:' ■ " • . SAILORS' HOME MISSION HALL. A fair number of seafaring men and friends gathered together''in the Sailors' Home Mission Hall, Albert-street, last evening, when the Rev. Young gave an interesting address, touching on the temperance procession. Solos were sung by Miss Foster. Captain Bazeley, missioner, was in attendance. FLYING ANGEL MISSION TO SEAMEN. A good congregation of seamen attended evensong at the Seamen's Institute, Lower Queen-street,*'on Sunday night. The missioner, Mr. Arthur P. Cowie, conducted the service. Great pleasure was derived from a reading by Mrs. Cowie after the service. THEOSOPHY. Mr. H. W. Young lectured in the Auckland Thcosophical Society's rooms, Wel-lesley-street, last" evening on "The New Evangel." He pointed out the confusion in the world of industrialism,, philosophy, and religion at the present time, and contended for the necessity for a new and righteous order of things. Indications of this coming unity were noted in the philosophic and religious tendencies of the present time. Many, he said, see the inevitability of this, but it is few who as yet anticipate it on all planes of thought. Bat if we have sufficient receptivity and spiritual intuition to recognise the truth of the forerunners, we shall prepare ourselves for tho coming of a great teacher, whose new evangel will be even as tho old, the everlasting gospel of the love of God and the unity of God and man. An interesting discussion followed. •

At the Thoosophical Hall yesterday, Mr. Light-band lectured on "The Noed of a World Teacher." The speaker stated that the world at the present stage was, in need of a great individuality who could .synthesise into a perfect unity the various schools or religious thought, philosophy and science, and unite in a common understanding of human brotherhood and responsibility the whole of the nations of the earth; .but above all an individual who, by the nobility and grandeur of his daily life, could show forth once a<raiu th» n - * - ;

all men are destined, in time, to realise.