LENTEN ADDRESSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 5

LENTEN ADDRESSES.

The final address to men in connection with the Lenten season was delivered by Bishop Averill in the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. The speaker based his remarks on the words of St. Matthew : "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." The two features of Christ's life, he said, were forgiveness and sacrifice. The " taking up of tho cross" meant self-denial, the following of the lino of greater resistance rather than the lino of least resistance. The last of a series of Lenten addresses was given by the Rev. W. G. Monckton at the wharf on Thursday, when the speaker dealt with the " Real Meaning of Good Friday." A good many people today, he said, were only interested in saving themselves. That was a religion, but it was not the highest religion. Some people wont to church because they wanted to get the custom of the poople who went there, and if they did not get the custom they would not go to church. People who took up religion because they thought it paid them. very often found that it did not pay them. The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews showed that there was a much higher religion than saving one's self. Christ's life was given for us. That was .evangelical teaching. There were people who scoffed at evangelical teaching, and who would sayit was out of date. But it wag the teaching of the Gospel, and the teaching which was going to live and last, when all the "isms" and " osophios" had gone. Christ called to save mankind.