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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 329, 1 December 1879, Page 3

FRIDAY, 19th DECENBEE. IMPORTANT SALE SMALL FABM ALLOTMENTS OPAKT PLAINS, MASTEETON. 1\ TESSES J. H. BETHUNE & CO. have ■"•*• been favored with instructions from the Execators of the late Henry Banuister, Esq., to sell by public auction at their rooms corner of Featherston and Brandon-streets, en Friday, 19th December, at 2 o'clock— THE OPAKI ESTATE, Consisting (of ITiyn ACRES OF VALUABLE AGEICULTUEAL LAND, Subdivideninlo 24 SMALL FARM ALLOTMENTS Varying from 40 to 122 Acres each. This magnificent property, approached by a good metal road, is situated within two miles of the flourishing Township of Masterton, and about one mile from the proposed Railway Station. The land ia of the very best quality, extremely fertile, aud laid down in English grass, a large portion being under crop. The homestead on section No. 5 comprises Dwelling-house. Outbuildings, etc., etc. The Auctioneers confidently recommend the above to the attention of capitalists, farmers, and others desirous of obtaining Ist class freeholds in the most flourishing part of the Wairarapa District. Intending purchasers can view the property any day previous to the sale, Lithographed plans are being prepared, and will be issued in a few days. TERMS LIBEEAL 323 ■VTOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, The following charges will be made for admission to the Opaki Races in December, 1879;s. d. Three or Four-horse Coach or Brake 4 0 Two-horse Buggy 2 6 Single Buggy, Cart, or Trap ..16 Passengers, except Drivers ..10 Horsemen and Pedestrians ... 10 No change will be given at the gate. DAVID & WILLIAM DIXON, 327 Lessees of Gate.' ELECTION FOE LAY MEMBER OF THE ENSUING GENERAL SYNOD OF THE CHURCH OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW ZE4LAND COMMUNITY KNOWN AS THE ' CHURCH OS ENGLAND. NOTICE is hereby given to Laymen in the County of Hutt and County of Wairarapa East and West, qualified to vote at the election of a Lay Representative for the General Sviiod: I have fixed WEDNESDAY, the 26th day of November, 1879, between 8 o'clock p.m. and 8.30 p.m., at the Church Schoolhouse, Lower Hutt, as the time and place for declaring the nomination of Candidates, Nomination papers, signed by two qualified electors, may be delivered to me at any time prior to 8.30 pm, on that date, THURSDAY, the 11th day of December, 1879, at 8,30 p.m., at the School-house, Lower Hutt, and at the School-house, Greytown and Mastcton, Wairarapa, on the time and place appointed for the electiou, should more than one Candidate be nominated. Dated this 27th day of October. 1879. W. A. FITZHERBERI, 306 Returning Officer. _L of our Lord Jesus Chrirt will be given in the New Town Hall, Carterton, on Monday evening next, December Ist, at half-past 7 o'clock, by JAMES MOOEE GAITELY. Sankey's hymn books will be used. Subject : "The Speedy Personal Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ from Heaven, aud the Resurrection and Translation of a First-Fruits to meet Him, as declared by the " Spirit of Prophecy."

_ Eighteen hundred years have idled away since Our Lord aseended into heaven, and the Angela declared to His Disciples that ''this same Jesus, which is taken from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven," And now the signs of "the last days" are plainly manifest, Knowledge is increasing, Evil men and seducers arc waxing worse and worse. Scoffers have arisen, walking after their own lusts, and saying:'' Where is the promise of His corniug?" There is a great apostacy from the faith, Sound doctrine is not endured. Men are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Iniquity abounds, and the love of many is waxing cold. Men's hearts are failing them for fear; the sea and the waves-the peoples aud the nationsare roaring; and the powors of heaven—the Church—are shaken. When " war on God and on religion beomes fiercer every day;" when the authenticity of the Sacred Scriptures is boldly denied; when "the whole drift of European thought is to exclude the living God from the material universe;" when "hostility to the Christian faith has arisen, deeper, sterner, and more systematic than that which terrified our fathers in the most voleanicand tempestuous hours of the Freneh Eevolution;" when the real issue of the | battle now raging is-" Is Christendom to believe any longer in Christ, or no?" when these are the terrible evils which face us in all directions—who can fail to perceive that " the Church is passing through one of the moßt violent and moat decisive trials of her existence on this earth," and that ws are fast approaching that time so sorrowfully anticipated by our Lord—"When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find -faith ou the earth?" In the hope of this Second Coming of our Lord, we invite your attention to these most solemn and holy matters; praying that you may discern this time of visitation, and be kept'from the power and snares of Antichrist, and ' be counted worthy to escape all those things which shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." Therefore, be ye also ready: for in such an hour as YE THINK NOT, tho Son of Man cometh." ASKELL AND BOULDEN Painters, Paperhangers, and General House Decorators, _ MAST EE TON. Graining aud Marbling in a superior style, Estimate given,