LENTEN SERVICES.
" Too many people- are Christians because they have been brought up to be so, or becauso it is a matter of instinct. They have not thought about the matter," remarked the Rev. F. G. Harvie, during the course of a Lent address to men at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. That was the reason, he went on, that many churchgoers were cornered by the man in the street when talking upon the subject of religion. But let them put themselves outside the universe, and then study the world in which they lived, and they could not fail to find ample reason for their belief. In such a position they would be struck first by the many great laws or principles of nature, but for his purpose it would bo sufficient to take only three the laws of perpetual motion, of reproduction and growth, and of evolution. Each of those laws was superhuman, and could not have been promoted by man. It' was some great Mind that waft responsible for these beneficent laws, and that Mind assuredly was Cod.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15549, 5 March 1914, Page 8
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