THE REV. W. READY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 40, 25 February 1901, Page 2

THE REV. W. READY.

In the courae of the sermon delivered by the R»v. W. Ready in the Whiteley Ohurch yesterday morning on " 4 Christian Patriot" sovero strictures were pasied on tha obvious luck of men in our ■churches, the rosultant weakonof public life, and tho guilty neglect of citizenship and its duties, Taking Nehemiaii for a pattern of the ideal man, tha ideal workman, the ideal builder of nations, the preacher urged th:so present to find out. their duties, and planting their feet firmly on the 1 principle of life ascertained by indivithought; and search, to go forward irrespective of result. Duly not"popular;'.v must bo their motto. Piety which! never made its owner weep for the j woes and sins of others, was naver born i at the cross. The religion which had !trt eyes always iteod oa tha tet tor lase!,'

but cmcerned not itself with making 'he land better, was a libel on truo Christianity, atid, s>id the preacher, hj; had do sympathy with a godliness which -nly nimod at fitting for heaven nun forgot to improve o'ltth. Sir Re-ady ii» ■x speaker wbo is cot afraid of an everydiy illir-.tsv-tii » i<» his discourses, who :ims at clil-ctivenesa rather th«u aftVct. The "ioi'fcura to bo tonight should be well worth heu'h'g. We remind our reiders of the time at which i. canamonci-r, 7.45 sharp.