RELIGION AND POLITICS AN UNCOMMON SERMON. Wellington March 27.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 4

RELIGION AND POLITICS AN UNCOMMON SERMON. Wellington March 27.

Ai)Di;i — i\i. the congicguhon of (lie \Vt> lo^an L'huirh la-t cm nmg on t bcir dut;\ a-indhidual-,.''tul a- a chinch, tin, Ke\. 1.. M ihiLt mentioned the political :-pheie a.- an jinpoitanl pail in life, Jle did uoi Know whet her there Hih ;myt hiitLf I'haiisaral in the utterance, hul In; often thanked (Jod that hi. -i religion.^ I, dining hail not lud him io ply inonthistic \ic\w In the la-t cltij he would rather take hi.- -Land with i ho old I lonian-, who, in thoir ignorance, .-.icriiiced their h\Lt> lor then country than with a man who, in l.hu Hood light ot ('O^|)l4 tcacliiny, Hung mvfij hit. Lrnuulf-l hcnta^c, and mtcqiretud tho comnmnd "(-one out ironi mnong thorn ' an adnim* in, auction to i-pend hi"-* hto m t.u in«r his o\v. nu-citiblc little .-oid, and in becking (oadd trom l.ho nuinhci 1 of those already redeemed to hio own narrow sect, >vhilo he, pluidinj; (Scnptuif as hi- guide, leaned back and let. the woilddiitt to the de\il. Mi K-itt urged o\ery member of the Christian Cluueh to evcieisc Ins vole, and, il pti-sible, ,-peud hi.titne and in todinu, tor the jiolitiealgood of Iho eoloin , lemumbering that the hiw.s made to-day weie tor weal or woe the dot-tiny ot u gre.it jieople. lie asked the congregation to let no narrow teaching persuade them that a. man who entered chio or political office, coi^eciating hi- powei,- to In* Maker and the .-oiviec ot hunumi^, was not doing a work that anfelb might covet and that <_-od smiled upon.