WESLEYAN PASTORAL.
"SOMETHING VANISHED AND GONE." " - .The annual pastoral address to the Wesleyan Methodist Societies, recently, issued, reminds the members that- the Churches are not "without perplexity,, and there are many things to> disquiet. ■ . . ' ;lhe vital questions,, it is pointed out, have not' to- do . with politics' or schemes; they hold" a. graver menace and. sound a'; deeper note. Reasons may bo given for the connexional decrease, "but- this 'is not . the precise time to weigh out ■ comforts." - The present state. of. tho Churches. "ought to move to penitence, and' a sense of'something vanished and gone. . Members are .urged to seek a remedy in a spirit of . penitence, and preachers are exhorted to use, "the wooing note" in their preaching, "for Christianity does not triumph by argument, but by a manifestation of the reality of the life of God in the soul."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 960, 29 October 1910, Page 9
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142WESLEYAN PASTORAL. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 960, 29 October 1910, Page 9
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