COMING OF CHRIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 10

COMING OF CHRIST

NOTED VISITOR'S SERMON "All tho world's present systems, of finance and commerce, are going to break down and the whole world is going to he God's garden," said Sir John Sandcman Allen, M.P., a distinguished visitor from England, speaking on "Christ's Second' Coming" at a service in the Howe Street Hall last evening'. Sir John conducted tho entire service, and with him on the platform were Dr. W. H. Pettit and Mr. R. A. Laidlaw. Tho accommodation of the hall was taxed to the utmost and many people were unable to gain admission. "We are living in an age when people are giving up fundamental truths, an ago when people are explaining things away," said Sir John. "Thev regard Jesus as a 'good Man' who came into the world to set a good example." That idea was shocking and hopeless. Christ did not come into the world to live; Ho came to die, to suffer in the world's stead.

"Many people are wondering what is going to happen next," continued Sir John. " 'ls there going to be another war? Is there going to be a smash?" they ask. They are afraid of what is to come, but Christians have nothing to fear. It is a wonderful thing to know that we are to see His face. Christ is physically coming here, 'tho same Man. It is a false teaching which suggests Christ has already come." Some said that man's heart was getting better. How .could man get better? How could' a corrupt thing bring forth good fruit? "Nearly every book in the Bible refers to the coming of God," added Sir John, "but lie is not coming until all the evil that is now in the world has been exposed. God's Man is going to be supreme. Men will have had their day."