ANGLICAN GENERAL MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 4

ANGLICAN GENERAL MISSION.

STREET PROCESSIONS AND OPENAIR SERVICES. AT AUCKLAND. The Anglican General Mission, which opened in various/ Auckland churchesori. Saturday last, is attracting a good deal: of public attention, in ;, tlio..,northerii: city./., ...'■ ".',. ;-.-■. ..-.,; .-■-'/ '.":.•", -..; In a, leading.article,-referring- to tho. misHsion, the "HoraldV estates that "it can hardly fail to rouse a'■; deep . and widespread in-terost; in matters spiritual. ■ The clergymen who haye:.been specially selected. ;fpr tho; work-, havo , been chosen. for: the'if individual:. giftp and fitneas. They all possess some personal power- or grace that 'peculiarly, qualifies them for, tho-task that has been' entrusted-to them.. Though they : rep resent, nearly all-tho various-schools of thought, to-be found within the. allembracing ;.and; tolerant .fold; . of.;' : tlio Church of f.Erigland,-: their , mission-.is not; to promulgate; -those- several and divergent ■ views; but" to awaken .their : hearers to ihe /supremo"•■importance.: of the.Christian life in , - its.-relation'jto the individual, 'tho'family,.:nnd. the- nation;; No onowill'.deny that tho time'is ripo for such a ca11. , '.., .-.-■'■: -:■ ■■■.' : : :;.-.-*■■ In concluding a; most impressive.- address at. the Cathedral on Saturday night -Canon , E. A. Stuart ■said: ■"Wβ. want riion'and/women .who'-artv' not. ashamed to:. I con\o forward:and acknow-. ' lcdgo that, they-are on ,God's:.'siae,' tind we want them- , to make: a' .bold,' -firm, stand'.for Christ! ;';-Tho come to -ahpar-s. don for .tho past and a power which :■ will enable men-, and 'worneii/ta Alive tiie'i Christian'/life." , . , ■■ '"-.'■:•'..' - : '- .-••"■■"-.- : '.-- / On Sunday ;thp- congregations- were :yery largei and tho addresses .were.of a. 'deeply. ea-rnes : b;snatinip;-!' ; Brib'r''.t6''" the , evening service 'at St; /Paul's, a large - procession^:was formed. Headed-by,: a great white largo banner a surpliced .chqjr.of men.;/ and boys with theycWrgy.-'marched 'through' the , ..streets singing hymns .en .route. Halts wero made at various places, and prayers/were said and addresses given. Opon-air; services wero also- -held .in Symonds Street, in ..connection with tho .mission at St. Sepulchres. .;.;- ■ ..;■ At. ithey introductory service . on :i Sat-; urday night at/St,,' : Potei''s',: : Onthunga,i the Rev. J.,:H.; M'Kenjiie ■(Qpngrega-, tional miriistpr). was' : -,preisent';,,at:-; the, service for meri on". Sunday afternoon. tho 'Rev. D/D. .Scott'- , .(Presbyterian minister) -and a. number of .the young, men of) his congregation .walked 'into tho church together;-the R-ev. S.; J. Gibson' • (Methodist minister). told his people on! Sunday that he-hoped, yon the niglits when they'had-no service in .their own church, ,that'th©y would .pn-, .deavour.te Jiear.- tho niissioiKs , ;(tho C. T. ; H6ran),-,from lyhom lio jvas..sure. they wo« 13 receive-./good,.and that; .ho himself should.:be present-when ■•;: possible without neglecting his own duty. ■