BAPTIST TABERNACLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16010, 31 August 1915, Page 4

BAPTIST TABERNACLE.

THE DIAMOND JUBILEE.

CELEBRATIONS CONTINUED

A prr.i ic meeting was held last evening in celebration of the diamond jubilee of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle and in order to welcome the Rev. Archibald G. Brown, formerly pastor of East London Tabernacle and Metropolitan Tabernacle, London. The Mayor of Auckland, Mr. J. H. Gunson, presided over a large attendance.

The Rev. H. Knowles Kempton -welcomed jhe Mayor and read messages of congratulation, from all parts of the Dominion, as -well as from outside centres. The Mayor said he recognised the work of Christianity in Auckland, and thatwoik should bo respected and furthered at everv opportunity. (Hear, hear.) Tho Tabernacle dated from the time when Auckland only contained a handful of people. Now it was strong and flourishing. Those who founded it. need have no fear that their work would not be faithfully continued. 'The world, lie proceeded, was suffering from the neglect of things eternal and absorption in things material. It was lime the people turned about. lie believed that the ;;reat war was the process by whit h the world was going t<f be turned from materialism to things of greater import.

In adding his word of welcome to the Mayor, the Rev. E. At Kirwood, president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, said ho had been .-inn k by the fact that so many of Auckland's prominent business men were avowedly Christian men. He had great pleasure in extending a welcome, on behalf of the Baptists of New Zealand, to Mr. Brown. (Applause.) He. referred to Mr. Brown's association with the late Mr. C. H. Spurgeon. Mr. Brown's work, he added, had its own distinctiveness, and he could sav that the potion of the Baptist Church had been vindicated by such men as their guest. After the Rev. Joseph Clark, ex-pastor of the Auckland Tabernacle, had expressed his welcome. Mr. Brown said it would not do the church any harm to have a dose of puritan :it would bo better if there were more puritans. Hear, hear.) He returned warm thanks for his welcome.

The diamond jubilee will be celebrated to-night, by the holding of a cantata "The Holy City," by A. R. Gaul, at tie Tabernacle^