THE ANGLICAN MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 938, 4 October 1910, Page 9

THE ANGLICAN MISSION.

WOMEN'S MEETINGS.

, The mid-day meetings ior women, held in connection with the Anglican mission, were largely- attended yesterday. ■■"■. Iho Bev. J./C. i'itzgerald explained the verse "A: certain man. went down from-; Jerusalem, to -Jericho" as the going.down_mto' sin;. The first fall : was that of the Arcanger Lucifer, and then , later" on,came that of our first parents.. Always.thero is choice" offered between good : and eyil and if evil is chosen- it is: peoples own doing, not that of' circumstances or' persons. New Zealand was a tembleplaco for -being tempted /to "go down..'. ;Again. and' again it had'been said to-him by people that it .was .impossible tokeep up to the mark in .this country;, A wrong , choice.by those who had been confirmed .was deliberately: rending asunder the Body, of Christ. Speaking particularly to thosewho belonged to the Anglican Church; he said' that 'on j;ho day. of their .confirmation, they must have felt-the power.and the Klory of : the heavenly .Jerusalem, and if they had lost that vision.it wasfor them to bring:it back by their choice., .; Canon ■Stuart spoke of St. Paul, who, though'in : prison,'..manacled and Teviled by the- Jews,; yet; counted all things •as well lost,-; for the excellent■■•knowledge of :'JesuS:;Christ. /.•:/ ■ . : ' ' ■