STUDENTS' SERVICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14924, 29 August 1910, Page 7

STUDENTS' SERVICE.

A students service was hold in Knox Oliurch yesterday morning-, the' preacher being tho Kov. Mr Lawton/M.A., trav»llmgMOMfary of tho Australian Students' Olmstian Union. His subject was " World Moranenfe." Ho reviowed tho progress of tho ■himwin race. It often scorned that Uotls pluns had been frustrated, but acloser study ehojvcd that thero has bean "a' marvellous working out of God's great pur pose Out of a fallen race ho -ches?a . righteous pcoplc-a. woplo to whom we are indebted for our religious, and ethical conceptions. • This race at length becamo steepod in, commercialism, and religion became a mora formalism. Then caime Christ ,imd a groat world movement was Ixvuil by His revelation. Again, through cfark ages imanland' seem«l to sinK into materialism, and indifforenoe, but then Luther arc6e, teaohing' of the. life by faith. Again ciimo another lull, TJie Cliuroh did not Mem to carry, out the Lord's commission, but in tho fulne-s of timo Cary arose and called upon tho Church to go into all tie world. His call was not respondad to, but a student movement arose They heard tho call and challenged tho men of the Lnuich, saying that they wero prepared to supply 5000 students a year for foroign sDmco if tho <men. of tho Church would send tnom. In this was bom the men's missionary movement. Tlio speaker showed that it was incumbent upon all men to rise to tho opportunity for the uplifting of tho empire and tho extension of the' Kingdom of God. Tho command of the Alaster was: Go y 0 into all tlio worldond preach tlio gospel to even" crcaturc," and, continued fcho prcachcr, "Why call vc Lord, Lord, and do not the tilings that I liavc.