CENTRAL MISSION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1913, Page 9

CENTRAL MISSION

The People's Sunday Evening Service of the Central Mission was held in The New Theatre last night, the building being crowded. The two bands were present, and the selection "Jerusalem, My Happy Home," was rendered by the seniors. Mr. T. C. Newton sang the solo "The Holy City." The missioner's address was from the text, "And I, John, saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven," Rev. xxi., 2. A description of the City of Jerusalem^ as travellers ccc it to-day, was given by Mr. Blamires, and contrasted with the Holy City of the apostle's revelation. The speaker said that peoplo thought too often of the New Jerusalem as the city of the blessed beyond the river of death, but the city John saw in vision was a dwelling-place of God with men, a spiritual city whose foundations . had been laid in the work of Christ, and His apostles, which would be completed when from this earth was removed all sorrow and pain, suffering and sin. John's revelation had less,, to do with Heaven and the future than with earth and the present; the religious hopes of men before the time of John had cen* tred in a that had been destroyed by the Romans, a Jerusalem that was defiled and unclean, but in its place John "had put a city out of which was cast everything that was an offence to purity and truth, and such a new Jerusalem was to be built in every city ; every land was to become a holy land, and every 'nation walk in the light of the "Lamb" which John mentioned as the light of the city. Next Sunday's People's Service will be conducted by the Rev. J. W. Burton, recently of the Indian Mission in Fiji.