THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 21732, 18 June 1932, Page 20

THE CHURCH

«£WS AND NOTES. FROM PULPIT AND PEW. The Church of England services at North Im rcargill to-morrow will be held in the new building, King street, at 9.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. The Rev. J. Carlisle will be the preacher at the Esk Street Baptist Church on the Lord’s Day. The evening subject will be “How Are We Saved?” Pastor L. P. Bryan will be the preacher at the North Invercargill Baptist Church to-morrow and will speak in the morning on “The Church’s Hour and Opportunity” and in the evening on “The Manner of His Coming.” At St. Peter’s Methodist Church on Sunday evening the last of the special addresses on the “Pearl of the Parables” will be “The Elder Brother.” The studies have been intensely modern and many have expressed appreciation. The soloists will be Mr Eastlake and Master Bobbie Wilson. The choir will sing “Thy Will, O Lord” (Wicken) and i other appropriate selections. The church is well heated and visitors are welcomed. An interesting service will be held at the Central Methodist Church, Leet street, on Sunday evening. Hymns, Scripture reading and special prayers will be conducted by members of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Bible Classes. Miss Clearwater will sing “The Shepherd’s Call,” and the choir, “Hear My Prayer, O Lord.” The Rev. C. H. Olds, 8.A,, will speak on the subject “Who Would be a Christian?” Mr Olds’s morning theme will be “Bread for the Hungry.” The Rev. Raymond Preston, who arrives in Invercargill next week to conduct special services at St. Peter’s Methodist Church, is a native of Yorkshire, England. He possesses a fine baritone voice and at one time had an offer of twenty guineas a week with a travelling company. This he refused that he might be an evangelist and has served in England and Australia for many years. The reception to the notable preacher will be held next Saturday evening in the church, Elies Road. His Worship the Mayor and councillors have signified their intention of attending Mr Preston’s first service next Sunfiay. The - Nile Mission Press, situated in the heart of Cairo producing a Christian Literature in Arabic and several other languages is serving over 100 missionary societies from China, across Asia, throughout Africa, the Near East and elsewhere. Mr James E. Kinnear, M.A., who is at the moment visiting Invercargill, has recently returned to New Zealand on furlough, having given 34 years’ service in the Press. The Romance of the work of Translation, Publication and Distribution, the re-casting and adaption of literature to suit the mind of the Oriental is a subject which provides food for thought to those interested in the vast Mohammedan populations of the world. Mr Pat Synes, of the Unevangelized Fields Mission, who recently arrived in New Zealand from Amazonia where he has been working as a missionary amongst the Guajajaha Indians, will lecture in Everybody’s Building on Monday, 20th inst., being the first occasion upon which a missionary from that little head of land will visit our city. The populations in the aggregate of unevangelized fields, which include the Island World as well as immense areas of Africa, number more than 10 millions and the Indians of South America over six millions. Dealing with Amazonia as associated with these immense fields, Mr Syne’s lecture should be of intense interest, there being 400 unevangelized tribes of Indians in Amazonia. The wonders of spiritualism is the subject to be discussed in the Victoria Hall on Sunday night. Sir Oliver Lodge in his book “Raymond, or Life after Death” claims that he received mess’ages from his son Raymond, after he was killed at the war. Throughout the world, messages, it is claimed, are coming through constantly at the call of the medium in the seance chambers. Pastor Mitchell plans to give the origin of modern spiritualism, tell of the things it is doing, and who the spirits are; giving the Bible explanation of the remarkable phenomena. The public is promised something definite, and understandable on this puzzling subject, and doubtless a good audience will assemble to get something sound and tangible on this mysterious worldwide phenomenon. At First Church on Sunday the quarterly season of Holy Communion will be observed, and all communicants who are physically able are urged to be present at the Table of the Lord. The whole of the morning service will centre upon this Sacrament. The eventide diet of worship at 6.30 will have as the theme “Invigorating Christian Experience,” the call to Christian believers to keep their Christian experience fresh and sweet, a necessary factor in difficult days. At 7.45 p.m. the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be dispensed as an evening Communion for communicants unable to attend the morning celebration at 11. The anthems selected for the day are Stainer’s “God so Loved the World” and “There is a Green Hill” to the musical setting by Field. The present economic depression and its consequent unemployment is causing suffering to millions, but is one element of that World Reconstruction which theosophists have proclaimed as inevitable before mankind could make the next step in its advance. Twentythree years ago Dr. Besant prophesied a changing world in her London lectures, associated with the coming of a world teacher. Now at last even the most dull mind is aware there must be a change. But in what direction? During the last decades the individual has lived demanding more and more of sense gratification. Helped by the rapid advance of science and inventions men and women have feverishly acquired as much as possible of the things of the world. And now, in this crisis, the only solution is what every great teacher gives. Renunciation, not possession, is the gospel they offer to souls who are to lead the world. “Seek Ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,” said the. Christ; “full of vzoe is the householder’s life,” said the Buddha; “the greatest in the nation is he who is poor and wise,” said Vaivasvata Manu. Each teacher in turn emphasises that “Life” is from within and not from without. And now, once again, the world teacher gives the same teaching—that the Kingdom of Happiness which the individual longs for is within him, in the life of his own aloneness, not in that of the group.

Numerous cases of unemployed men being threatened with eviction from their homes are being investigated at the present time, according to an official of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement (states the Christchurch Times). “So far as the movement is concerned, it has found a number of landlords very reasonable,” he said. “In several cases conferences between representatives of the movement and the landlords, or their agents, have resulted in the suspension of the eviction notices.”