HUGH RATON MISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 55, 14 June 1910, Page 8

HUGH RATON MISSION

ILast evening the largest wecl-night gathering during the mission met* in St. {Andrew's Church. Mr. Paton eh'lwe as fynis subject,. "Rest." reading a pJ?*a ; ge tjfrom Matthew's gospel, 11th chapter, .jarrd dwelling on th'e*sentence. "I w'tTgive yon rest."" ynrest and uncertainty seamed to he universal; no matter vrhnt iflwrntry one travelled in, there was the .■vame restlessness. Tn the old" lands i peopJ" thought they conld dimly uniterstaii'd —sin was the cmtse of restlessness; and''sin was present in the new land's also. Mr. Paton has wonderful descriptive powers, and his audience could atnraat' see the pictures .foe painted. Mr. Paton touched u.non the claims whicb Christ made for Himserf. The mksioner does- not waste time iff .pnlpit logic: hj» appears to the reason are trenchant. Speicki'ng of life's weariness. Mr. Paton mentioned three burdens— (1) the con l sciousn&ss of sin, (2) tfte cares of life-, (3) the fear of deatle—which weighed' people down and from which the DivineChrist'can give rest. ifr. Paton gave it as arr experience of twenty years that" he bad not seen during that time a real Christian destitute or iaefcing the necessities ijf life. The ..passage In the Psalms,. "The young lions do lack- and suffer hunger, Jwrt they that seelF the Lord shall'' not want any good thing;" has been fulfilled' perfectly "in the lives of all Christians whom Mr. Paton Utrs known. Mr_ [Paton speaks again to-night and toimonrw.