EVANGELISTIC MISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 110, 27 May 1901, Page 2

EVANGELISTIC MISSION.

0.1 Sunday the Rev. R. M. R/bura, <>f VVanganui, commeoc'd a series of evangel eal services wlrch is to extend ov.r the whole of the pnsent weik.

In the morning the rev. genlemaM p-ea-'hei i'i S-. Aud e-v?, when there \va« a very largo congregat.ioo. He to k Irs texi fro u Joshua XXIV", 15, referring particularly to tao words ■' . . . choose yo wl.om ye sr.a'l serve ..." mA mads r.n el qu nt

exhortation to his he, rets to live a ■ hoiougUy Gud-lite life. In the i-.veniug R>v, Ryburn conduct* d in the Whieluy Mimorhl Church, which was fiTod. The pr'a'dier t ok as his text Hebrews iv, 12, " For tie word of God is qtr'ckand powf-ri'u', and sharper thin ai y twoedged sword, . ," and wis foil owe I ivi'.h mpt attou.io.i by the large congregation. He pave many usances | e onloi in wh oh " Goi spake," and) ■"thnio was ligh," and si on, as re ] corded in the Book of Genes's, illustrating the power of God. All the hi flings that had e:m». to tho human race hrough the medium of *h» Jewish raiv ad come through the Word of G d and that we, in sfort, tin Bible. The !woa<£erful multiplication and dhseminatou of tho B b'e was quoted a-i an ■ tvid- nee that the Word was living .inn amongst the psopln if he rarth. The Bible ws 'full of e.u'y to those who mad it, and the •ipak'r in a pow.iful exhorta'io.i billed upon his houreis (o accept the Diviu?) Word and Spirit a* it canw to ihem thr nigh tho wods of the Bib'e.

A r , th<) conelu ion rf the seriiea an uni'td praye- me ting was he'd in t,l o Whi'eley Hi!', who i there wis aga'u i v-i y la'■£»'■■ a t ndar.ee. Tj night (\iimda\) .md every cveiir g this week, an Unite! Mission wih e conducted by Rev. Mr. Ilyburn m l-e Whiteley Hall, c mmencing a' 7 30 'c!o.'k. Sankey's Hymu Bji ks will be used, and everyone is cordially invited tj attend,