RITUALISM'S DEATH KNELL.
"A MARVELLOUS AWAKENING." [BY; telegraph.—own correspondent.] Ohbistchttrch, Saturday. The Rev. Knowles Smith, of the Methodist Church, Dunedin, in an address, said that tho coming year would be one of the most remarkable years in the spiritual, religious, and social history of the that this land had ever seen. The churches had been drifting in the paths of ritualism towards Romanism, and that to- them meant the degradation and ruin of their people. • Now the awakening had come, and there had been thrown into their homes evidence that had aroused every true Protestant, and every real Christian in the Dominion. If ho read Now Zealand aright ritualism would receive its death knell when once New Zealand knew what it meant. In New Zealand to-day there was evidence of a great Democratic movement. It was a marvellous awakening for the democracy of this land to find that they could join hands with one another, and that the minister was equally necessary, and equally called into the service of humanity with the labouring man. This democracy was a power that was going to determine the future history of the Dominion and tho environment of its children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15003, 27 May 1912, Page 8
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