ECCLESIASTICAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15003, 27 May 1912, Page 5

ECCLESIASTICAL.

y.L\C.A. The Rev. Donald Scott, at the Y.M.C.A. yesterday, delivered a strong and masterful address on the subject " The Socialism of Jesus." Using the Golden Rule, tho speaker made a powerful attack on various modem systems of socialism, and ended by making a stirring appeal for the spirit of Christ in all efforts towards the Golden Age. Mr. Thos. Rowe was the soloist, and Mr. Campbell occupied "the chair. At the strangers' tea which followed a conference on Christian work was conducted. Next Sunday at 3.45 the Rev. A. Murray begins a series of addresses to young men. CENTRAL MISSION. The meetings of the Central Mission held throughout yesterday wore well attended. In the morning at 10 the shipping workers held a meeting on board the search steamer Eden. At 11 Mr. Bissett, missioner, preached in' the Albert-street Hall, his subject being "Tho Memorial of a Great Passover." In tho evening Mr. Bissett preached again in His Majesty's Theatre, his message being drawn from Hebrews xi. (Noah's Telescope). Mr. Healy was the soloist. The Rev. Geo. Grubb and party are due to arrive on Juno 15 to conduct a nine days' special mission. MISSIONS TO SEAMEN. The usual service was held in the Sailors' Home Mission Hall, Albert-street, last evening, when the Rev. Young gave an interesting address to the various friends and seafaring men m the congregation. Solos were sung by Miss Crawford and Mr. B. C. Warburton. Captain Bazely, missioner, was in attendance. The Missions to Seamen, Lower Queenstreet, was well attended last evening by seamen from boats in port. The missioner, Mr. A. P. Cowio preached on " Life Eternal." After service favourite hymns were sung. BIRKENHEAD METHODIST CHURCH The anniversary services in connection with the Birkenhead Methodist Church were well attended yesterday. The Rev. W. A. Hay officiated in the forenoon, and the Rev. C. H. Garland in the evening. Special hymns and anthems were sung. The annual social gathering in connection with the church anniversary will be held in the Zion Hall to-morrow evening. THEOSOPHICAL. In the Chamber of Commerce Hall, under the auspices of the H.P.B- Lodge, Mr. J. R. Thomson lectured on " Psychism and Spirituality." The speaker stated that psychism was the consciousness expressing itself through any body, whether it be the physical, astral, or mental; whatever form, of manifestation it took it was a form of psychism. Spirituality, on the contrary, waii an inner realisation, and not an outrushing energy, the very essence of spirituality being the self-conscious realisation of the one life animating and indwelling in all tho full recognition and knowledge of the inherent divinity of all that lives. It was the self recognising the self in another, and knowing that self as himself. At Rayner's Buildings, Wellesley-street, Mr. S. Stuart lectured on " Time on the Astral Plane, as Distinguished From Time on This." It was explained that time here was only artificial and relative, and that this being the lowest of the planes the vibrations were the slowest. On the astral plane, the vibrations being enormously increased, the happenings of a_ life-time may appear there as a pin-point. The second subject was socialism from a spiritual standpoint. The essence at the back of even our socialistic movement today may be spiritual, however mistaken may be the means used.