ECCLESIASTICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 5

ECCLESIASTICAL.

CENTRAL MISSION. A "special forward movement" has been • undertaken by the superintendent and 1 members of the Central Mission, and yesterday the addresses delivered by Mr. Bisseto were of a special character. In the Albert-street Hall at 11 a.m. he .spoke on "The Kingdom of God with Power," and impressed on his listeners ■the great need for whole-hearted service. I At six p.m. an open-air meeting was held at the foot of Victoria-street by the workers, and at 6.45 a service of song was held in His Majesty's Theatre, wiien. special music was rendered by the choir and orchestra. The people's service, at seven p.m., was presided over by Mr. Biajsett, who preached on " The Striking Summary, of a Crowned Life." During the service a duet "I Cannot Breathe Enough of Thee," was rendered by Mrs. and Miss Wood. Y.M.C.A. At the four o'clock men's meeting, Mr. H. S. Hart, of Wellington, gave an impressive address to an attentive audience, and the speaker was asked to visit the association each time he visits Auckland, and give- similar addresses. The soloist for the afternoon was Mrs. McFarlane. Tea was provided and arranged by Mrs. Lindsay, and a happy gathering of friends and strangers from Canada, Lancashire, Scotland. Wellington, and Invercargill fully enjoyed the repast. An informal discussion took place around the tables. v. SEAMEN'S MISSION. The Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, Lower Queen-street, was filled with seamen at evensong last evening. The misnoner, Mr. A. P. Cowic, preached on •'Loneliness." After the service, favourite hymn 3 were sung. The Wednesday night services are being well attended. \ THEOSOPHY. I The lecture given last evening before the Auckland Iheosophical Society was on the ancient state of the world, from geographical, acheological, and other as- : pects. Data were taken from numerous 1 sources, and led to the discussion ot various natural phenomena. In the Chamber of Commerce Hall, wider the auspices of the H.P.B. Lodge, Miss C. W. Christie lectured on " liehgious and Social Ideals of the Future." The speaker stated that the religious and social ideals of the future would have as their basis the inherent divinity of Wan, recognising man as a spiritual being, seeking to express the God within him the unfolding of man's latent powers being regarded as? the object of his existence. •Evolution was being carried out accordnig to a definite plan, and the new race • now being formed would express co-opera-won in place of individualism, not in its material, but in its ideal sense. It was m order to give to this now race, now /Wits birth, its; religion, and embody in Wis own personality the ideals it is to express, that the world teacher was now expected, and until this had been done neither synthesis nor definiteness were possible nor could its ideals become . m 'ing and tho inspiration of (he race.