A DANISH SERVICE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6451, 24 February 1908, Page 8

A DANISH SERVICE

A number of Scandinavian people met together in the Berhampore Baptist Church, yesterday afternoon to hear Mr Jens Dickson, a Danish rnissioner from tho United States, who conducted the service and preached a sermon in has native tongue. Tho ''Sangetren'” of the Lutheran Church wore used, and the mission er took for the subject erf his discourse the parable of the prodigal eon. Mr Dicksen regretted the modern tendency to discount old truths and simple beliefs of the Bible. Nothing was more cruel than the attacks on eternal truth by learned people, who brought the cold light of science to disprove if possible verities that were as firm as the eternal hills. There were, indeed, in these days of doubt many prodigal eons, eons who had been alienated by the cynicism that grew as the knowledge of men grew. The old, simple faith was best. It was not only the university man who could understand these things. Such understanding was the inalienable right of any who based his belief on tho beauties of the Christian faith, as set out in "the grand old Book." The missioner exhorted his hearers to guard against the blight of scepticism and unMiof. He was happy to say there ware yet those who had never been prodigals, and it was to these the Church looked for strength in a trying time.