CANON GARLAND AT PETONE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 9

CANON GARLAND AT PETONE.

The Rev. Canon Garland occupied tho pulpit at tho Nelson Street Methodist Church,' Pet-one, yesterday morning, and. preached to a very fair congi'ega-: tion. Ho took as his text tho 13th and 14th versos from the tenth, chapter of St. Mark's Gospel, in'which it is stated that the disciples,rebuked Orist for suffering the children to cqmo unto Him. -The Jwcacher said "ho could imagine them .saying: "Tint of all the sick, 'maimed, and suffering 1 Why worry about these children?" Wo are apt to conceive' of God as an easy-going kind of person, Who is all love anil kindness, but He is also a God of justice, and 'is angry when occasion warrants. When the disciples rebuked,) Him, He showed His anger in His facc, and was very indignant with them for their attitude.

The ,preacher then asked the congregation what was their attitude towards the children. Wo trust tho Bible in tho hands of heathen. They say: "What has the Stato to do with religion?" -It had everything. No evidence could bo taken without the use of tho Bible. God was tho same today a Ho was when Christ spoke these words. For 37 years iii New Zealand there had been ; stumbling-block in the way of the childreli. Wo must- seek to answer this ovation ■ as Christ would have us do.