ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8740, 23 May 1914, Page 15

ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST

At a public meeting of the above order on Wednesday evening, Mass Horne, national lecturer, spoke on “The Second Advent’': “What is at?” Tho advent, said the lecturer, is' the last of the yearly feasts of the church, and was instituted by the church to keep her in mind of our Lord’s promised return to earth, and event for which the church has- been looking through all the centuries since His death. The coming has been long delayed. and the churoh has ceased to have any strong expectation of that coming or to know exactly what is meant. There has crept into the church, based on certain misunderstood passages of scripture, a belief that His second coming will be coiminent with the destruction of this planet, and will be accompanied by indescribable terrors. This, however, is a mistake, and according to esoteric doctrine “End of the World;” really means the end of the age. 'iho beginning of a new dispensation. Just as the Christ gave the impulse that launched the civilisation of the" West, and gave it Christianity, so will He on his return to earth give the impulse that shall start a still _ higher civilisation, and hy which Christianity shall broaden out into a great world religion. Ho will not destroy the world, but will lave, and walk and work among men once more. It is in expectation of this great event in the near future, that the Order of tho Star in tho East has been formed.