YOUNG MAN’S FIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 999, 16 June 1930, Page 14

YOUNG MAN’S FIGHT

BATTLES TO BE WAGED * AGAINST EVIL A crowded audience of men greeted Mr. Harry Dawson when he delivered the second of his series of addresses at the Y.M.C.A. yesterday. The subject was "A Young Man’s Fight,” the speaker using the ancient man versus beast fights as an analogy. He showed how important to the man it was that he secured victory over the beast. Mr. Dawson outlined some of the lights a young man must make. These were against strong drink, sins of the body, destructive habits, afflictions arising from poverty, suffering, and sorrow. The speaker told numerous stories from life, illustrating the necessity for victory, and the fact of the Man of Galilee as the greatest companion to have in the fight. He challenged his hearers to come to a decision as to whether they would face toward Christian victory or merely drift along. Several young men present indicated their acceptance of the challenge for Christian living. PRESERVER OF MAN “God the Preserver of Man” was the subject of the lesson-sermon in First Church of Christ, Scientist, yesterday. The golden text was from Psalms xxv., 21, 22, “Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on Thee. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.” Among the citations was the following from the Bible: “And It came to pass, when He was In a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt. Thou canst make me clean. And He put forth His hand, and touched him. saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.” The lesson-sermon also included the following from the Christian Science textbook: “Jesus never asked if disease were acute or chronic, and He never recommended attention to laws of health, never gave drugs, never prayed to know if God were willing that a man should live. He understood man, whose Life God is, to be immortal, and knew that man has not two lives, one to be destroyed and the n| other to be made indestructible.”