THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 21986, 8 April 1933, Page 10

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PULPIT AND PEW. Miss M. Jennie Street is due in New Zealand shortly by the Ruahine. She will carry on religious work among the Quakers in the Dominion. It is not generally known that for over 100 years a weekly prayer meeting has been held in the House of Commons, London, while the House has been in session. It is often said that Russia is a land of surprises. One of the latest surprises is that Milton’s masterpiece, “Paradise Lost,” has been printed in prose in Russian and has a large circulation among the peasantry. The Rev. O. S. Pearn will give the last of the special addresses on “Voices from Calvary” at St. Peter’s Methodist Church on Sunday evening. The seventh word tells of “The Way Home” and a warm welcome awaits all visitors. The choir will sing Roberts’ “Seek ye the Lord” Under the auspices of the Invercargill Ministers’ Association a service will be conducted in First Church at 10.30 on Good Friday. The Rev. A. G. Mackintosh Carter will preside and an address will be given by the Rev. C. H. Olds. The service will conclude with the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and a cordial invitation is extended to all. A free-will offering will be taken up.

Stainer’s “Crucifixion” will be rendered in the Central Methodist Church to-night (Saturday) by an augmented choir under the baton of Dr Stanley Brown. Messrs J. T. Prouse (tenor) and Rewi Kingsland (bass) will be the soloists. On Sunday services appropriate for Passion week will be conducted by the Rev. C. H. Olds, 8.A., the morning theme being “Love to the Uttermost,” the evening “The Appeal of the Crucified.” The choir will sing “God so loved the World” (Stainer). The Rev. B. N. Eade, Baptist missionary on furlough from India, arrived by the mid-day express from the north yesterday and will be the preacher tomorrow at the Esk. Street Baptist Church in the morning and in the evening at the North Invercargill Baptist Church. He will also address a special missionary meeting on Tuesday night next (April 11) at 8 o’clock in the Esk Street Baptist Church. Friends are urged to avail themselves of this opportunity of hearing the Rev. Eade. Following their usual custom on the Sunday prior to Easter, the choir of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Dee street, will render a service of Easter music to-morrow evening. The work selected for this service is Maunder’s cantata, “Olivet to Calvary.” The soloists will be Mrs R. Lindsay, Mr R. Kingsland, Mr F. H. Johnson and Mr R. Evans. Mrs A. E. H. Bath will preside at the great organ and the choir will be under the baton of the choirmaster, Mr H. P. Weston. There will be no sermon owing to the length of the cantata and the service will not be broadcast.

Someone whom you love dies and, because you are suffering intensely, you are momentarily satisfied by the idea that he continues to live on the other side, that you will be united with him in the future. For the moment you are drugged to sleep. To the mind that clings to the idea of union there is always sorrow in death because of loneliness. What you have to face is not death, but your own loneliness, which you have carefully avoided. Death is but the intense awareness of that loneliness, and you cannot escape from it through beliefs and consolations.—Mr J. Krishnamurti.

At First Church on Sunday at 11 a.m. the theme at the family diet of Divine worship will be “When the green tree is cut down,” and the anthem chosen is “Daughters of Jerusalem,” Sir George Elvey’s anthem for Palm Sunday. At 6.30 p.m. the 3rd sermon-lecture on the “Life beyond the grave” will be delivered. The “Easter” Book is the Bible; but should we think of it as the most spiritualistic book in existence —a book of dreams, visions, voices from the dead—a book of clairvoyance, and clairaudience, of automatic writing, and levitation? . Can we accept the dictum, “there is no phenomenon of spiritualistic research that cannot be found in its pages? Viewing it as such, does God become nearer, and resurrection, and life beyond, more real? The service will be choral, the anthems selected are “They have taken away my Lord” (Stainer) and “Christ is risen from the dead” (Roberts),