PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11668, 2 July 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

At this Church in the morinngthe preacher, the Rev. J. H . MacKenzie, briefly referred to tho death of the late Premier, and in his address to the children, based his remarks upon the late Mr Seddon's life as an example of the fruits of perseverance. In the evening Mr MacKonzie's sermon was devoted to a review of the work of the dead statesman, the text being Deut, 15 chap., verse 11- "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, thou shall open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land." Special emphasis was laid upon the latter half of the verse in an able and appreciative, withal a sane and just, review.of that legislation which Mr Seddon was able to effect, dealing with the betterment of the conditions of the people of this colony. Mr MacKenzie pointed out that those who were close at hand were not always in the best position to judge as to the merits of a thing, and it was perhaps those in other countries who could best appreciate the work done by Mr Seddon, and he alluded to the many messages that had come across tho seas paying tribute to the man and his work. Various enactments were particularised, and the old age pensions more fully dealt with as a beneficent provision, the preacner concluding by saying "It is our duty to give God thanks for the good this man has wrought '" "Days and Moments Quickly Flying," "'When on My Day of Life the Night is Falling," and other appropriatw hymns were sung. At the conclusion of the service, the organist, Mr N. Williams, played the "Dead March in Saul," the congregation standing.