THE CHURCHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10974, 13 June 1903, Page 5

THE CHURCHES.

, „ ' Tb-mofrovw's Servf^es. Ne^t- }7tfi. instant, is the lucpntenary of ,the birth, of John Wesley. To-morrow evening. the R^v, H. R. Dd'vsbury will • preach on'*" Wesley aild his Wmk,"', „.-•..,(,•;. . .:• .' ''Mirtin,, liUtiior and the German Refort matton" ,wijl, form the subject- of a lecturo to, be delivor,ed by the Rev R.\M. Rvburn, • M.A.,,,at St.* Paul's < Presbyterian Church ,on (Sunday, evening, , AU are cordially ,in.,y|ted, , ai , ..,./,, , ,T,he services at the 'Salvation Army Barracks to-morrow, "Social Sunday," should be of exceptional "rAteresb.* '-The •"Army's" I fcpeial, oper^tioiis iwWS.- bo Shvon^yht pronii*nently .-before the, , p,ub.Uc^ ,9nd to . incxert^e the interest the leaders of these : special -service* will -be 'Aaujutal»t and Mrs Foster, •at one time stationed in Wanganui. They will 1 Jbe: assisted > b,y Adjutant Lane,, of Stratford, .and . Captain, Hawes," of . W.yalong-. 4 New South Wales. | The social public meeting on 'Monday night, presided 'over 'by Mr Basset t, promises to be 7 a great _ success. , , Under tlie church advertisements attention,,, is called to a lecture, ''Signs Tthat Are Near," to be given by the Chfistadeluhiana in the Druids' Hall at ' 7 p;fti. on .Sunday.. Th,e synopsis .comprises : Sipns t^at tho, great event, is ,npar, even at the ■,door; distress; overgrown armaments; universal war ; preparation ; threatening .demands of tho international democracy, backed, up /Jynamifo outrage and labour, riots; disappearance of the tern p.ower of the Pope; tye exhausted state of. .Turkey ; revival of the Holy Land, .a»d movements among the Jews; and the bearing of these things upon the advent.