HERBERT BOOTH MISSION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 198, 17 May 1920, Page 5

HERBERT BOOTH MISSION

Mr. Herbert Booth addressed two larg£ ' meetings in tho Concert Ohamber ycstcr' i day aiternoo'n and evening. 'At the r.fteiv, j noon Catherine he delivered an address', | on "The Wiles of the Devil and tho AmuEbmentß o£ Jfodern Babylon," in th»i .i course of which ho vigorously l ilted at the 1 trend of 1 modern amusement, likening the I condition of life in that regard in London" j and olsewhere to v/hat kappened before; : tho fall of Babylon of old, and warning'.all that God's .iudement would follow as 1 surely as it did once before. Last even-. j iilg Mr. Booth spoke on "Bolshevism.' Socialism, and tho Lord Jesus Christ.''' . : In tKd course of his remarks tho speaka? . ■ : dwelt on evil in the, heart betas ereatoi;! • than environment. answering the nuestioii' \ that lias leant from millions of lips how,' 1 , could God permit such things to tiappca 'j which have so recently upset a world) • lie showed how God had favoured tho j peoples in providing wonderful environ'', ; 1 ments from the Garden of Eden, in tho ' ; instance of the people of. Israel: in thai case of America, and even Australia, and I Now Zealand, and in each instance 1 ed history in showing how tho Eciflohnesfl ' of men had allowed! sin to enter ani. ':^ mar all. The only remedy was to bo i found in God's law-tho eternal verity—to i use what talent one had in His service. j Ueo your gift or lose it—that was God's 'i law! TJrfa your eyes or bo blind; use j your ears or looso your senso of hearing;'. •• • ] use your muscleß or perish of paralysis.' 1 With great problems Btarin? them ip ths , face it was time to demonstrate what re- . lipion meant, what 't mtant to bo a' '• follower of Olirist. It was all mado -! plain in tho Sermon on the Mount, : but it had become vacuo and ob« ' ■ seured by theorists _ and "ohisms, and sects, each with thoir nuzzlinc: ineon- I sißtoncies. Yet it was all made plain i£ orid j obeyed the Second Lovo ■ i thy neighbour as thyself" aa it should ba ; obeyed, solflshness was sin, and its ban-' isliment was the first instruction of God-^ in it lay the root of all Christian doc- ■ trine. _ Family life was tho foundation ot ■! Christian social life, and ho warned hi* hearers to beware of anyone who would, pull it down or destroy it. and especially ' beware of those'who would lightly or flippantly play with the marriage bond, All the nations had been built on • ! family life, and whero thero had been > looseners in sexual relations the doom of' « such a nation hod been quiolsly brought 1 about. His fathor. when he wrote "Darkest England," had warned the world what , would happen sooner or later, with tho balance so unevenly adjusted between the. > hundreds of thousnnda always on tho 1 vorgo of starvation, and those with a. ' Buparabundance of wealth. It had coma ; in Europe, and the time was coming when; it would come to New Zealand—this deluga of blood and tears and revenge, unless tho evil of' selilshncßß in men's hearts . was not oaßt out. Satan was being gi\en ' his cbanco, and wfcen chaos was coma j Jesus Chri6t would come amongst them. t . again and set the old world right. I ; Mr. Booth is to speak on "The Second ! Coming of Christ" at the Town Hall to- i night, and lilb mi66ion will close with his i celebrated lecture, "Tho Soldiers of th? ; Cross, or the Faith aiid Fight of thp > : I Early Christians," to bo delivered in thai ■ I Town Mall to-morrow ovenlng. ' ;