CENTRAL MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 973, 14 November 1910, Page 9

CENTRAL MISSION.

The music of tho Central . Mission Band gave special interest to tho mission service in the King's Theatre Inst evening. "Rousseau's Dream" and "Nearer, my God, to Thee" were tho principal items. The Rev. E, O. Blaraires, who is giving a series of recitals of remarkable life reformations in the London slums, described in that connection tho changoinvolved in conversion leading to a transformation of character.' Tho subject was treated mainly from tho ; psychological standpoint. At tho Brotherhood meeting in tho Druid's Hall in tho afternoon, Mr. G. Laurenson, M.P., spoke on "The Trend of Recent Legislation." Ho contrasted ' the state of New Zealand with that of tho Mother Country in the matter of social legislation, and said that in - spite . of much that was deplorable there was "evory reason' to'belic'vd, in the'constant, steady progress of the world' towards tho ideal, and New Zealand,was contributing towards that tendency. Ho insisted that in social and moral reform, it was. not enough to improvo the environment. Thero must also bo a change of heart, and without that little permanent good could be done. Sir Robert Stout will bo tho speaker at the Brotherhood meeting next Sunday afternoon.