THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 22210, 30 December 1933, Page 8

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PULPIT AND PEW. It is possible to become as rich as Midas and yet to be a person very uninteresting to oneself and to others. —Edward Booth Young. Divine services will be conducted in the Esk Street Baptist Church to-mor-row by the Rev. W. E. Lambert. The Georgetown service at 11 a.m., preacher Mr W. J. Ward. West Plains, 2.30 p.m., Rev. W. E. Lambert. Hearty invitation to these services. “The Sacrifice of Praise” and “Adventures in Friendship” will be., the morning and evening themes respectively at the Central Methodist Church, Leet street, on Sunday. The preacher will be the Rev. C. H. Olds, B.A. Communion will follow the evening service. We have a book to circulate which contains the grandest truths about God, the Saviour, the Holy Spirit, the way of salvation, the mystery of sanctification, the right use of life, the Hereafter, and many another doctrine of tremendous importance.—“ Quarterly Record of the National Bible Society of Scotland,” for October. Dr. Orchard is now at Home preparing for the Catholic priesthood. He and Dr. Johnston Ross, an old friend, who was the Presbyterian minister in Cambridge (England) about the same time as Dr. Orchard was minister of the Presbyterian Church in Enfield (London), spent a holiday together in Honolulu some weeks ago. The necessity of remembering ( the blessings of the past year and “Lost Years Restored” will be the messages for meditation delivered by the pastor of the church at the North Invercargill Baptist Church to-morrow. There will also be a watch-night service held at the church commencing at 11.40 p.m. Close of the year meditations _ will be the themes at the Diets of Divine Worship at First Church on Sunday. The service at 6.30 p.m. will be broadcast and members in town are asked to remember that the policy on broadcast Sunday is not to listen-in themselves to the service, but to assist to let others far away have the benefit of good service of praise by attending that service in large numbers. What religion a man holds or to what race he belongs is not important —what is important is the knowledge of God’s plan for men and that plan is Evolution. “Man as yet is being made, and ere the crowning age of ages Shall not aeon after aeon pass and touch him into shape? AU about him shadows still, but while the races flower and fade Prophet-eyes may catch a glory slowly gaining on the shade.