UNITED MISSION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14363, 8 February 1911, Page 6

UNITED MISSION.

MEN'S MEETING. The American mi-si oner, Dr Hecry, he id a-meeting for business men ana ethers 1U tne Sophia street Hall >estrnlay bc-tjvean :2.30 and I 1 ' 11 !: 'lnc-re ivai n large attendance, the nail b«ug tilled. .imon- those present nere representative business men, ul ~ cluuing some members of the Borouyii Council. The meeting opened vntli prayer by the Rev. A. E. Hunt, and seme mission hymns were heartily sung, Mr Carnegie-Farquhar, # the Scotch soloist, leading the singing in his own inimitable stylo; and he- also gave a solo with very good effect. Mr F;shwick presided at the piano. Dr Henry delivered a patriotic address in very vigorous style, his subject being: 4 *The Future of the AngloS^son Race." He prefaced his address bv stating that ho had held meetings of this kind for business men i- many places, and they had been very successful. Ho hoped that good would result also at Timaru from th© n^etings ho proposed to hold here. The questions to be discussed wore of the greatest importance and no intelligent man could afford to be ignorant concerning them. The doctor then proceeded to show by statistics and otherwise, how rapid had been the spread of the English language, and tow great the development and progress of the English speaking peoples. Anglo-Saxons were not paragons of Virtue, but they represented what was best among all the nations of the er.rth. They it was who had planted the seeds und religious liberty; thev stood "for law, order, and good government-; and wherever they held swa*-' there would be found the greatest freedom, the best government, rud the happiest conditions of living. There was very little associated with hit country, America, and its wonderfold evelopment, that could not bo traced, back to the Mother. Land. The D'arch of progress was ever continuing with Anglo-Saxons, and as time went on there would be a closer federation among them, and thej should exercise a sc£H greater influence for good. The- secret- of their success the speaker attributed to their religion, si.d he emphasised the point that with the supremacy whici God had granted thc' i was also given a great responsibility for purging tho world of that which. was evii in it. He dwelt in an interesting way on the personal traits c: Anglo-Saxons, and turned some rcac compliments wiuch prompted the aidience to applaud heartily on several occasions. The Anglo-Saxon refused to be absorbed by others. His Cod, his home, his government, his and lii> personal responsibilities ho refused to part with; they were p..rt of him: he would rather die than surrender those things.- which made iuin Anglo-Saxon. He was characteriiKKi also by a spirit of restlessness, created by a kind o: divine discontent, *liich explained his power of conquest and colonisation. By reason of this spirit he was found r-t cry where, and m all parrs of world iiis influence v. as belter than tlmt- of any other. H • refused to be bossed, and possessed a spirit of masterfulness together with a love of liberty, justice, and truth. Tenacity of xmrpose and bull-dog persistence were his; he took a good grip srd held on. English-speaking people had been more successful in colonising than any others, th? record of Great Britain in this respect standing preeminent in the history of the world. E*" Henry went <;n to tell of how the T-nited States assimilated vast numlers of people of all nationalties, and of the problem to b? faced in converting the heterogeneous assemblage into & homogeneous race. He dealt also Ttith the corrupt citizenship of America, of which we heard so much, and said that the secret of it all was alienism. There were between 14 and 15 millions of aliens in tho TTnrted States t'>-day; aliens were responsible tor 68 per cent, of the ciimes committed. Sixty-five per cent, of the owners of

hi eweries in tho United Staws came from some other country, 9 - o l every 100 publicans there «ei-e aliens. How to deal with th ®= aliens, and people who discarded the religion of Christ and threw law and order to the winds, was the problem t-- be faced. "With evident pride the speaker dwelt on Uhe attribute ot j „rrlo-Sason3 and urged them to recf."nise aaiew their God-given ca.l towork for the overthrow of evil m all ifcs forms. Mr W. J. Bardsley drew attention t.> the fact that a meeting for men or ly will be held in the Drill Hall on Suudav next to which boys under 1-1 will not be admitted. It was_ hoped tiiat there tvould be n very large attendance- at that meeting. 1 Dr Henry will hold another meeting in the Sophia Street Hall to-day at 12.30 when he will continue the subject which he began yesterday. There is to be a great demonstration u,- young people in the Drill Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3.45, when Dr Henry will speak on "Fighting Lions." Arrangements are also being made for an address to be given to the wharf hands. AFTERNOON MEETING.

In Trinity Hall yesterday afternoon there was a good muster for the 4 'Quiet Hour and Biblo Study." when Jjt Henry gave a vigorous address on "soul-winning." Dr Henry illustrated bis address with striking passages from }.istory and appealing quotations from the works' of such writers as Beecher and Moody. He also drew from his civ i. inexhaustible store of experiences it; 'Jib world as a christian worker, joclting stories that lent force and appeal to liis remarks. THE EVENING MEETING.

Trere were seven or eight hundred people iu tho Dnil Hall ia:st evening, uv.d as l)r Henry had laughingly pr*•J uef 1 on the previous night, few, if liay of them were suiter ing from "religious dyspepsia.*'' l'lie wholesome, heart/ singing was too bright for that; the eeiviee was full of enthusiasm and and of stining interbit. Dr Henry again obtained a thorough grip of iiis congregation, his simple directness making a personal appeal to everyone. Mr Farquhar has hi 3 choir well in haiio. .and they sing their items in a pzactically faultless maimer. A duet K Mr Farquhar and Miss Anderson was a highly acceptable item. Dr Henry had with him the platform the Here. G. King, K. Wilson, J Olphert, A, E. Hunt, and T. Stinson, and the service was, as already suggested, a most successful one.

Several requests for prayer had been handed up—slips of paper containing SGch messages as "Oh pray for my son who has gone deep into sin/' "Pray for tho man who is in the street drunk to-night.' 5 Dr. Henry led the congregation in soleniji prayyer f' - r those for whom aid was desired. Dr Henry's address had for its subject "Tho Greatest Crime in tho World/' and it dealt for the most part with the indifference shown by professed Christians to the welfare of those about them. After describing some of the dangers which beset people, into which they are wittingly or unwittingly being drawn or driven, he said it was a marvellous thing that men and women ooukl be indifferent to the mc.ral condition of tlie world to-day. How many were there- in Timaru who knew Jesus Christ in the forgiveness of sin. aud had knowledge of the life everlasting? It was not too much to say that one-lialf were destitute of that knowledge. There were 5.009 persons in this town, and say about half-a-million in all tho Dominion, who had no Christ and no God. Iu Britain and the United States there were at least 75 million of people, of whom it might truthfully be said, "they have not yet acquired the hope of life everlasting. They do not know God." It was a great mystery, but it was a fact, said Dr. Henry, that men and women who had crept into the presence of JestiA Christ could live a. lire of nerfoct indifference to the moral and spiritual peril of men and women around them. There was criminal neglect of opportunities on the part of those "li? bad received the Gcspel, and had iiis intelligence and tho capacity

U> .Itf thf 10 it: darkins-, hut I;»ili*fI 1 d:i s:) - Ignorance t\ as no _i uM i!h a lion. It u ' ,l > their business to kiu>\\ their responsiliilit it--;. Al r_'.;in ifi-■ I; i y I Jr. H<-m*v will continue Iv.s ad-lrev> t-, bu*ines< men "" t-hrt su^'H" - t ot ' Kuturo of *h° Anglo-Sax< - «n Race," in tho Sophia St-r-oot Hall, where extra seating a ccotnmodation hns boon provided. At. p.m. there will bo the Quiet Hour end Bible Study in Trinity Hall, and the evening evangelistic meeting in Drill TJali conimeurrs n? usual at 7-30 o'clock. TV. Henry sneaking on "How a Great Man Lost His Grip." At S.l-'i p.m. -to-day there will children's' meeting in 1 lie Drill HaN. Next Sunday tliero will bo a address to young men on "Sins tir&t Kin." at 3 p.m.