BISHOP OF WELLINGTON S VISIT.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 November 1917, Page 3

BISHOP OF WELLINGTON S VISIT.

St. Mary's church held large congrcga('iions at the morning and evening sevices on Snday, the occasion being the visit 'f Bishop Sprofiit, of Wellington. In the evening every seat Was occupied and additional seating had to be brought in to the worshilppers.

In tii© morning His Lordship, 'in the course of liis sermon, compared the civil year, the passing of wli':ieli people looked upon as bringing them neaT_ er their dea:;ih, with the Church's year, opening with Advent and the coming of Oiriisfj into the world, passing on to Christmas and then to tho Ascension and the return to hea/en. .He spoke of the aristocracy of Chris';- : ian Intellect, tho early sainits whoso •day the church had recently commemor■atedw Christ V;aught that His people .should Hook forward, not to death but to joining those who had gotne befotre •in a happier life on another plane. He ou|i the important part hope in Jife hereafter played im helping anitaon to endure to victory.

Jm tlie evening the confirmation of sixteen candidaibes took place, the service being impressively carried out by the Bishop.

Bishop Sprott said that idi'e presem': *as the day of big things, and the teiu^ cnc - v * n Zealand andi places far re. fr° nl *' le war, with many peop 1 © w " us towards a feeding of dis. satisfaction* with their live® becauis/o they could In the trenches or work in' munition factories. But aM could not'do heroic deeds arull I'die Bishop pointed out bow from the small thincs of life miglrty consequences

might follow. He instanced the murder of the Austrian Archduke in a small Bosnian town in June, 1914, as an illustration. It was a small enough event of its kind, but from it had come the greatest war the world! had ever known. He quoted other instances of great and welcomo results following small events and urged that it should never be ibhought that because a thing was smnill it was not important. What- • ever one did should be done with nil - ane's might and the preacher em- ■ pliasised the effect of Clio small things in moulding the character in certain •directions.