THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 22068, 15 July 1933, Page 10

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PULPIT AND PEW. The speaker at the Esk street Church on the Lord’s day will be Mr Turney. Communion service will follow the morning service. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”—Booker T. Washington. The services of the North Invercargill Baptist Church to-morrow wall be conducted by the minister of the church, Pastor L. P. Bryan, who will speak at the morning service on “Citizens Of Heaven.” At the evening service will be delivered the third address of the series on “Present day events in the light of the Bible.” At First Church the evening service will be broadcast, and it is hoped that all members and adherents will make a point of attending the evening diet of worship to ensure a worthy service of praise being broadcast for country listeners-in and others further away. The anthem will be "Saviour, Thy Children Keep” (Sullivan). Meetings at the Salvation Army Hall to-morrow will be conducted by Adjutant and Mrs Tong. At the morning meeting the adjutant will give the fifth address on “Sanctification” (Its Possibility). A memorial service will be held in the afternoon in honour of the late Mrs Schroeder. At night Mrs Adjutant Tong will give the address on “Indecision.”

Fifty-one years ago, on Sunday, the Rev. Joseph Berry conducted the opening service in connection with the present Leet Street Methodist Church. His text was. “God Is The Spirit,” etc. W. Stemdale Bennett’s beautiful musical setting of the words will be sung as a quartet at the evening service on Sunday and the Rev. C. H. Olds, 8.A., will preach on the text. The anthem will be: “Jesu, Word of God Incarnate” (Gounod). There is conflict and sorrow in the mind and heart of everyone in the world, and so it is little use being concerned with the idea of helping the world unless you first begin to understand yourself. Until you recognize that you are yourself a prisoner and begin to destroy your own walls of illusion, you cannot set another free; you will only entice him into your own illusion, which may by contrast appear freedom to him.—Mr J. Krishnamurti.

Sir Oliver Lodge once declared: “I will not believe that it is given to man to have thoughts higher and truer than the real truth of things!” A day or two before he passed away, Mr Calvin Coolidge, the former President of the United States, was talking with an old college friend about the losses and uncertainties of our troublous times. “I tell you, Charlie,” he said, “there is only one thing that is solid to-day, and that is religion.” “Beware of the man whose God is in the Sky,” will be the theme at St. Peter’s Methodist Church to-morrow evening, being the third address on “Religion and National Life.” Mr J. Hensley will sing by request “The Toilers,” and the choir the anthem “Saviour Thy Children Keep” (Sullivan). In the morning the topic is “Paul, the Mystic.” The church is well heated and strangers are welcomed to the congregations.

The Invercargill Loyal Orange Lodge will parade at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening. Special seats will be reserved for the visitors in the front centre of the church. The subject of the sermon is “The Essence of Protestantism,” and the choir will sing the anthem “Thine, O Lord, is the Greatness.” The minister of St Paul’s, the Rev. C. J. Tocker, will occupy the pulpit. Members of the lodge are requested to assemble in St. Paul’s Sunday School Hall, next to the church, at 6.15 p.m.

The Rev. S. Varcoe Cocks, who is visiting Invercargill on Monday next in the interests of Christian Endeavour work, is the world’s vice-president of the movement. For ten years he has been youth director of the Methodist Church in New South Wales and has travelled in many parts of the world. He attended the monster World Christian Endeavour Convention in Berlin under the presidency of Dr Daniel Poling. In New Zealand there are over 300 registered societies with an active membership of some 7000. As the Australian representative he comes on an official visit. His wide knowledge and platform oratory and appeal to youth make his visit one to be eagerly anticipated.

John Morley, when he was member for the Montrose Burghs, was among the first to be impressed by the studiousness and promise of Dr. Garvie, who some time ago intimated his resignation as principal and professor of one of the London theological colleges. Dr Garvie was then plain Mr Garvie, and minister of the Congregational Church in one of the smaller towns on the east coast of Scotland. Dr. Fairbairn, of Mansfield College, Oxford, another distinguished preacher and theologian, began his ministry in another small town north of the Tweed. For years he used to be in his study every morning at six o’clock, carrying on at his studies, with a short respite for break' fast, till two o’clock.

The Presbytery of Auckland has adopted the following memorial minute to the late Rev. G. Y. Roby: “The death of the Rev. George Young Roby took place in Auckland Hospital on May 23. Mr Roby was a native of Perthshire. After completing the regular course prescribed by the Free Church of Scotland he served that country for some time. In 1889 he was settled in Natal, and he remained there for several years. During his stay in Africa two churches were built under bis guidance, and lie was the friend of leading figures in the Boer Republic. His instinct for colonial service next took him to New Zealand, where he was inducted to the charge of Whangarei in 1896. Three years later he was called to Orepuki, where he laboured until he was settled in Northcote on April 11, 1906. The effects of malaria contracted during his residence in Africa troubled him for the latter part of his life. He resigned- the charge of Northcote on October 13, 1917. Since that date he was frequently prostrated by illness, but his indomitable spirit triumphed over bodily infirmity. He was always a loyal presbyter. Although he was well versed in the language of the Old Testament, he made no parade of his attainments. He was unremitting in his pastoral work and a faithful exponent of the gospel. During the periods of bodily affliction through which he had to pass he retained a spirit of cheerfulness. This was due to his quiet waiting on God and his resignation to Him Who could make all things work together for good. The Presbytery mourns the loss of one who was so long and faithfully associated with it, and thinks of his services with the utmost gratitude.” MISSION AT GORE. Progress in the organization of the united churches’ evangelistic mission at Gore was made at a meeting of the executive attended by the following:— The Revs. Raymond Simpson (in the chair), H. C. Orchard, F. M. Beattie, M. Gow, Major Glanville, Messrs H. McQuillan (secretary), k W« Stevenson

(treasurer), J. Hunter, D. Elder, Shave, L. Friend, Anderson, Johnston, W. Bl Johnston and several others. Apologies were received from the Revs. D. D. McLachlan and Hannah. Mr Beattie said that the deacons’ court of the Presbyterian Church offered the use of St. Andrew’s Hall for the mission services of the Rev. W. P. Nicholson. The offer was commended and accepted. It was unanimously resolved that for, the four Sundays of Mr Nicholson’s mission services be held at 8 p.m. in one of the theatres if such be available. In the course of a previous meeting of the executive, the Rev. M. Gow, said it was very satisfactory that Mr Nicholson desired to work in the churches in preference to outside them. That showed the evangelist to be a man who knew his business and who adopted sound principles. Mr Gow said that in the past criticism had been levelled at the churches by irresponsible individuals, but, after all, when an evangelistic campaign closed the churches were left to carry on. Published reports of Mr Nicholson’s mission at Auckland indicate unprecedented interest. Mr Robert A. Laidlaw, manager of the Farmers’ Trading Company, expressed the opinion that not since Dr. Wilbur Chapman’s great meetings at Auckland in 1912, had such a deep spiritual work been done. Word was received from the Church of Christ expressing willingness to unite with the mission. ,