CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES.
NEED FOR CO-ORDINATION. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., November 10. At the Hawke’s Bay-Manawatu District Methodist Synod this morning the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt spoke on ‘ A Confused But Aspiring World.’’ He said it was time the churches took' their task seriously. Never was there a greater need to eliminate the waste effort and to co-ordinate all Christian activities and to inspire the community with a Christian ideal and motive. Only the church secret would create and redeem character. The Church was not impotent, nor was it bankrupt. _ Powen illimitable throbbed within her, rich6B untold were hers, but she must draw upon her riches and harness the power. They wanted a better world. That would not come of itself. Advance was not automatic; —it must be worked for. Jesus_ became 0. reality in individual lives. Their religion, must be interpreted in terms of seryica of the ideals of Jesus, When they wera gripped by a vision of the reign of God and when they organised their for<*s for service of the idea) they would an invincible power to straighten out the ?, world’s tangles and establish a reign of righteousness on the earth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19333, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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