REV. G. H. COLE'S MISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 122, 21 June 1909, Page 3

REV. G. H. COLE'S MISSION.

; A SUCCESSFUL DAY'S MEETINGS. 7 \ The Rev. G. H. Cole had a -very successful days meetings yesterday.' Morning and evening he occupied the' pulpit • at the Whiteley Memorial Church, where he addressed large congregations. . 1 The evpning suibject was) "Happy Homes iand How, to Moke Them," and the preacher, in Ms own particular style, shot home some truths that should make & number of smug Christians and ' > others wear their considering-caps tight-

ly and continuously for a while. In the afternoon the Mayor presided at two laigelytattended meetings; in . . the Theatre Royal. The first was a =t - gathering of women, to bear a talk on j ' , "Social quicksatads."' The missioner addressed a serious word of warning ■ to mothers in connection with neglected ■ jhildhood, emphasising the dangers aris- " ing from the two common system of ..C Tniied bedrooms for children up to an * . - unwarrantable age; the necessity for ' r > taking their girls aside and "pvag-them information that it was imt wrative they should receive first-hand ' jrom mother, thus avoiding a lot of . . trouble in after life. He alßo urged on k t,.the young women the necessity of marrying character. ' At the men's meeting there was sfome j rjv-y,, atraight talk in. manly fashion, the <£,. "speaker pointing out the strength of purity *nd the weakness of sin. He dealt trenchantly with sins that were J*rV j»pp7ng the ihest of the lives of our \ growing boys, and denounced cigarettey'O'.jluiaking and other insidious,and less apparent sins. He pointed oiit that cerr tain evils followed lives of uncleanlix ' Besp, as sore is night followed day, and ' ■.V "urged the necessity of leading lives of '§,£4' social purity. f 'At night the Theatre Royal was well filled for the public meeting held after - the close of the churches). Rev. J. G. Chapman presided. The Rev. Cole ilkumnated Luke 6, 17: "And He, came ' wwn with them and stood in the plain J> f • , " The lesson he drew was that f , JeßUs Chjrist was not only an approachbr" able person hut a man who came down Wjfy tp meet as. cjimb, for Christ had. come down to Same of our good Christians were elimb(J'VJng, nntil he felt like crying: "Coo r ee: ,* " coiie hack; you've passed Him on the ■ way." Christ bad been a lowly person on earth. There was no room, "not even v;.. a cradle, for Him when He came into the world. He came strangely, into a borrowed cradle, a manger; he left »■ * strangely, for his body was placed in a .borrowed tomb. He was poor his whole . life through, for our sake. During his v i discourse, the Rev. Cole touched on Vsocialism, and declared that "Socialism without the oroBS of Christ as its centre .1" *as a humbug." The gospel he referred V , to as "the short cut to success." The , Address was powerful, yeft not too The preacher, like the re--7 nowfled Father O'Flynn, "has a wonder- ■< •• way'with him," and he can make an boot's talk interesting .entertaining, and ■ Jtelpful. He was on excellent terms With his hparers at every gathering, . and, tell ,}t not to gome puritanical Christians, .aimed at putting them into t•. a good humor. \ , Op Wednesday evening he will give an p- <l illustrated lecture upon his life and ,i', *«fk amongst the boys ol the Melp;,;.;, bourne streets.