KENT TERRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1879, 13 October 1913, Page 4

KENT TERRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.

The anniversary services held ,in th<J| Kent Terraco Presbyterian Church yesterday wero conducted throughout by tho Rot.- Thos. Tait, M.A., 8.D., of St., Paul's Christehurch. In tho morning ho preached from the words, "I am not come to call tho righteous." Ho drew attention to tho statement that yo'i cannot prove tho negative, and showed that it was usually easier to provo a, negative than a positive, and tho positive was very ofton by way of a negative. At tho afternoon children's servico Mr. Tait spoke oil the chief end of man. Tho evening service waß crowded to hear Mr. Tait's sermon on tho worda of Paul: "Herein do I exorcise myself to havo always a conscience void of offenco toward God and toward.-man." Thero wero, ho said,- wholo sermons iit Christ's negative. It was natural for tho scientific man to attract' scientific men to-'himself, for tho scholar, scholarly men, but here was One who attracted his . opposites. _ Christ sought out and had as His friends tho sinner and tho outcast. ;

The preacher dwelt on fhe necessity for, and tho importance of, oonsoicnoo in civil and. social life. Paul' greatness lay in tho fact that ho was true to his conscience, and this is evidenced ill his sacrifice of easo and personal comfort in order to doelaro tho full gospel. Conscience had known fhren stages of development, tho dawn of lifo, tho moral precepts of tho philosophers, and then the sublime ethical truth of Christ that man was to lovo God with all his heart, mind and soul, nnd his neighbour as himself. Inactivity of conscience was the groat difficulty of modern life, and was to bo overcoma only by faith in tho Giver of Lifo.