PLEA FOR PROHIBITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 485, 15 October 1928, Page 14

PLEA FOR PROHIBITION

LIQUOR CONDEMNED BY MINISTER YOUNG PEOPLE’S DUTY Pleas for strong support of prohibition, and proper preparation by young men and women for citizenship, were made by the Rev. A. S. Wilson at the Grange Road Baptist Church last evening. “Young men and women,” he maintained, “should feel that the welfare of their country is in their hands. What are we going to do on November 14? Have we done anything so far? The New Zealand Alliance is calling for volunteers and for personal effort. “Once the people are aroused against the liquor traffic, it must go. The traffic would close every church if it could. In the month before us, our Christian citizenship will be put to the test —tested as to the men we vote for, the sacrifices we make, and our daily effort to sponsor Prohibition. The forces that centre in the drink traffic always work together against the forces that make for righteousness. We should make the politicians feel that we are behind them for righteousness, and we must oppose civic indif ference, which is nothing more nor less than a crime. “I cannot imagine our Lord being indifferent to the results of voting day. It is superfluous to ask what Jesus would do. I say, without fear of irreverence, that He would strike out the two top lines. The whole trend of the teaching of the New Testament that tells of Him leaves us in no doubt. “Our young men and women should train for the noblest citizenship, but have they thought at all of the great questions which affect the community v How many have heard their own. candidates speaking? I consider the casting of the individual vote one of the greatest choices in life. In face of the opportunity to show intelligence, conscience, and will, to be indifferent is to commit a crime. “The licensing system says as plainly as possible, and as falsely, that strong drink is a good thing, and that it is right to have it publicly sold. “I wonder if New Zealand girls are doing all they can in helping Prohibition. They have it in their power to influence the young men.” Mr. Wilson ended his address with the assertion that it was the duty of the young people to redeem the Dominion by ridding it of the liquor traffic.

SIN, DISEASE AND DEATH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE’S TEACHING POWER OVER EVIL “Are Sin, Disease and Death Real?” was the subject dealt with in the Christian Science # Churc’h yesterday, the Golden Text being taken from Jeremiah XVII: 14, “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and 1 shall be saved: for Thou art my praise.** The citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon included the following from the Bible: “And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name. And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke X: 17-20). The following passage from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy, was also included in the Lesson-Sermon: “It is sometimes said that Christian Science teaches the nothingness of sin, sickness and death, and then teaches how this nothingness is to be saved and healed. The nothingness of nothing is plain; but we need to understand that error is nothing, and that its nothingness is not saved, but must be demonstrated in order to prove the sometfiingness—yea. the allness—of Truth (p. 346). The foundation of evil is laid on a belief in something besides God. This belief tends to support two opposite powers, instead of urging the claims of Truth alone. The mistake of thinking that error can be real when it is merely the absence of truth leads to belief in the superiority of error.” (p. 92.)