MISSION AT WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume v, Issue 232, 12 October 1877, Page 15

MISSION AT WELLINGTON.

Sept. 30th, 1877.— A sermon was preached in St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, on " Temperance," by the Rev. Father Henneberri, C.P.P. 8., Missionary priest, at the eleven o'clock mass. The rov. gentleman, before he began his sermon, gave a few remarks on the evil of secular education, and its tendency to infidelity in America, his text being, " Be ye sober and watch," which it took him about two and a half hours to explain. The rev, gentleman gave some extraordinary examples of every-day life concerning the effects of intemperance and its results on society. He referred to drunkenness, and showed in clear terms how it violated the laws of God, and referred to the commandments at great length. His sermon was delivered in the plainest of language ; every man, woman, and child could understand him in his arguments and examples in the cause of temperance and against the evils of drink. At the close of the sermon he exhorted them to take the pledge with a voice that reached their hearts, commanding them to rise and lift up their right hand, and repeat the pledge after him. They consented to his exhortation, and proved the value of his golden words, and gathered round the banner of temperance. Eight hundred took the pledge in the morning, and one hundred and fifty in the eve. &• ing. After both services the rev. father thanked them from his heart, and wished them a thousand blessings, Cathoiicus.