WESLEY CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1052, 15 February 1911, Page 11

WESLEY CHURCH.

i "THE CALL OF METHODISM." Tho churpn anniversary and harvest thanksgiving of Wesley Church; Tarahaki Street, were, further celebrated last night at h well-attended cDiivcrsazione in tlio Wesley Hall. ■'.- Tho Rev. S. J. Serpell,' who ' prsided, gratefully- acknowledged the response of the congregatioi to the anneals "made to them, as n result of which the connexlonal year was starting without any circuit debt.' : ■. . ; •■■'.-■," Mr. H.N. Holmes, Eccretary of the Y.11.C.A., delivered an address on-"The SuprcmßCall of tho Methodist Church to i's People'.".'After an interesting sketch of tho life-work of John-Wesley,'• Mr. Holmes other- Churph. had dono nobler work, than .the iChureh whioh AVesle.y. founded. Its call was for nn affirmation that ireligibri' .'was .a funda-. mental; nccewity; of life.' It was a serious thing when men.-gare un the Church, but it was a mtiili more serious thing wTic'n" thjy pnvo up relitfon.i )>ecause then the'n-liold govorilmont and society 'iwoiild totter. Materialists and Socialists fo-day were suggesting that; religion, was nit necessary. Tho Church culled also foi ,tho recognition ■of tho reliability nnd supremacy of tho Biblo ns a cliaractcr-biiildor. Thero was" no hono for any Church that did. not stand loyal to the Biblo as a messara fr6m God. Last, tho Methodist Chiiich. called thorn to testify to tho sufficiency of the Gosnelfor tho needs of the (twentieth century" . A' musical and elocutionary programme was successfully gone throngh,-. and refreshments were-partaken of. ■•