THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 12

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES FROM PULPIT AND PEW A week of prayer and self-denial will begin tomorrow m the Esk street Baptist Church. “Prayer and Remembrance” will be the themes and the Rev. W. E. Lambert will be the preacher. Mr E. Lewis, secretary of the Crusader movement and of the Childrens Special Service Mission, will give an address to young people at the Ciwistpin Fellowship meeting on Monday evening. A special evangelical Anzac service will be held at the Salvation Army, Tav street, tomorrow evening, beginning at 7 o’clock. Major Sydney Bridge, the evangelist, will deliver a special address, the subject being The Spirit of Anzac.” The major’s subject at the 11 a.m. service is “Our Moods. At the Central Methodist Church tomorrow night there will be a special service for young people, when the preacher will present the message and challenge of Anzac for youth. Following the evening service there will be a friendly hour when the young people will have the opportunity of fellowship and discussion. The Rev. E. Drake, who is the Home Mission deputation to St. Peters Methodist Church, will conduct the morning service tomorrow. St. Peters and Knox churches will combine for the evening Anzac service. The Rev. G. B. Hinton will be the preacher, and the Rev. J. A. Chisholm will conduct the service. This service will be held in Knox Church. The Rev. G. B. Hinton will conduct the Clifton service at 3 p.m. “Probation After Death” is the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, tomorrow. The Golden Text is: “I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” (Revelation 14: 13.) Among the citations which comprise the lesson-sermon are the following from the Bible: “For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” (1 Cor. 15: 25, 26.) The lesson-sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science Textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “The Bible calls death an enemy, and Jesus overcame death and the grave instead of yielding to them. He was ‘the way.’ To Him therefore, death was not the threshold over which he must pass into living glory.”