THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 21832, 8 October 1932, Page 11

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES.

FROM PULPIT AND PEW.

At First Church on Sunday at the family Uiet at 11 a.m. the subject of the discourse will be “The Balancings of the ' Clouds,” Job 37, 16. At 6.30 p.m. the theme will be the story of a man who chose what he thought, paid, but lost his choicest possessions in the end. The anthem will be "The Radiant Mom” (Woodward). The evening service at St. Peter’s Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. Vincent Le C. Binet, who for sixteen years has been pioneering in the Western Solomons. He will tell of miracles of transformation and all interested in missionary work should not miss hearing his thrilling story.

The Boys’ Brigade (founded nearly 50 years ago for the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom among boys, and the promotion of habits of obedience, reverence, discipline, self-respect, and all that tends towards a true Christian manliness) has now about 2500 companies, and approximately 150,000 members in all. The Rev. V. Le C. Binet, one of the pioneer missionaries in the Western Solomons, will preach in the Central Methodist Church, Leet street, on Sunday morning and give an interesting lantern talk on the Solomons in the Jed Street Hall on Wednesday evening at 7.45. All are welcome. The Rev. C. H. Olds, 8.A., will be the evening preacher at the Central Church. The choir will sing “Light in Darkness.’

“Whatever we do with Sunday, or on it” says a writer in the Manchester Guardian, “we shall lose something precious if we fail to make it different from the rest of the week. No child should be allowed to grow up with the idea that Sunday is either a boring day or a day like any other day. It is an essential break in the rhythm of our lives, like the seventh wave in every sea.” The Rev. T. A. Speer, 8.A., and Mrs Speer and family who come from the earthquake area of Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, arrived in Invercargill on Thursday evening and will be inducted to the charge of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Bluff, on Wednesday night next. Mr Speer will conduct both morning and evening services at St. Andrews Church, South Invercargill to-morrow.

Services will be held in the Salvation Army Citadel on Sunday. In the morning an address will be given by Captain M. Cobb on the “Blessings of Holiness.” It is entitled “The Hill of the Lord.” In the afternoon “The Happy Hour” will be observed. To this service mothers and families are invited. At 7 p.m. there will be a memorial service to the late Brother C, Foster, who was one of the earliest converts of the Army in Invercargill. Special memorial addresses, music by band and songsters and the favourite hymns of the revered comrade will be given.

On Thursday evening next St. Paul’s choir, assisted by friends and a full orchestra, will give its annual recital. Ever desirous of including at least one new work in each recital, the choir has this year chosen Maunder’s dramatic cantata “The Martyrs,” and this will be performed for the first time in Invercargill on Thursday evening. In this work the choir will be assisted by the following soloists: Soprano, Mrs P. Frampton; tenor, Mr L. E. Dailey; baritone, Mr F. H. Johnson. The work abounds in beautiful solos and duets and splendid choruses. Included in the first part of the programme are vocal and instrumental solos as well as a choral fantasia on Tannhauser (with orchestral accompaniment), a vocal trio “My love dwelt in a northern land,” and a tone poem and selection by the orchestra. The recital will commence at 8 p.m. sharp and intending patrons are asked to be in their seats early.

In all the world there are only two kinds of people—those who know, and those who do not know; and this knowledge is the thing which matters. What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs—these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge—the knowledge of God’s plan for men.. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. When once a man has seen that and really knows it, he cannot help working for it and making himself one with it, because it is so glorious, so beautiful. So, because he knows, he is on God’s side, standing for good and resisting evil, working for evolution and not for selfishness. It does not matter in the least whether he calls himself a Hindu or a Buddhist, a Christian or a Muhammadam, whether he is an Indian or an Englishman, a Chinaman or a Russian. Those who are on God’s side know why they are there and what they should do; all the others do not yet know what they should do, and so they often act foolishly, and try to invent ways for themselves, which they think will be pleasant for themselves, not understanding that all are one, and that therefore only what the One wills can ever be really pleasant for anyone. —Mr J. Krishnamurti.