THE BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10579, 7 October 1910, Page 4

THE BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

- * v- ..~ (Per Press Association.) ■ Duncdin, October 6. :• The -Rev. W. Hay delivered the presidential address to-night,- his subject being "Spiritual Conscience," which he interpreted as conscience dominated by spiritual ideals. Baptists stood firmly pre,- this principle, and nothing so -adapted"itself to change of-years. It .was--the; seal set by God and man to the .-supremacy of the Christian: the ideal , next to Christ-. There had been no truer spiritual conscience than that oftthe Apostle Paul whoso doctrine after nineteen centuries was an unshaken authoritative exposition of the being arid the attributes of Christ, despite the subtle philosophy of to-day that begged the,_question regarding the divinity of ■CErist while still claiming that man was tlijrine. Mr Hay also dealt with the reaction of the extreme cast-iron the-ology-giving,birth to a subtle and misleading tendency to go back, to-Christ-as.~an academical teacher- when ; JuiiriVm heart sought not' the pedagogue -Christianity was something more than that ground alone it was .clMr,vtha t. .religious sentiment without commanding spiritual : conschjnte-. must bo utterlv ineffective: fiCTjtiniput without religion was humbug:. air Hay also spoke, on- the-claims ofv-iCliristin ni ty upon pastors audi lay-* men,,;and -the missionary spirit that had i ever ibeen;the gemus that hadavoided, impelled, and multiplied the Baptist ranks.