ST. MARY'S CHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 271, 13 May 1912, Page 4

ST. MARY'S CHURCH

MEN'S SERVICE. The Rev. A. H~CoMle, vicar of <* Mary's Church, conducted a Sice t men on y yesterday afternoon ThSl was a largo congregation and it «=! announced that similar 4v?± L'2 Je conducted on the .secoTd Sundlv 3 every month. The vicar's addresswas lon the subjcct of „ or dd^» 8 ; which was the .better m ,„»T Storf tth "«"• «-« W%r < w rtl,nff revela tion of God's he " f the ta wX »«n {*» « * FevioUß aer ™ 6 f °' 9 - CCn& dCpicted I «"« at the rich man's gate, a scene Mint those who have been\t kome ean mo* rca<hly under,tend than those wh" hav of h„St Symbo,ised t,le consta nt claim of humanity upon ,», for sympathy. Th* next scene was the rich man in heH at the mercy of the pitiless Lazarus whn «« II «" Grent Maßter mean to St*' ? id *• **an "hat uizarus was repaying Dives for his "terna ™sl° ifv «« aoetrine of eternal punishment. Thousands wer* horn ,„ sm and otl)ers b rou!?ht up without control Wad it v„ i th»+ « n «n, ~ i ' ,t0 " p « s s«mea that «nA people were doomed to damnation? Dives' punishment was of a purinZ g Z tur( \ c . ,ean . si «* him from selfishln £ m th «^htfulne SS Z It Th ,° P*"* l * teacn '* that we ,1? ot m , con <3emned for poverty or ™«m2 Sh a 8 t he n>n man in tfc* K,vtf a^ a . m \ ba ! om '" where ™Zw Cd t0 be in the P»«Me. ww fL™ Tw" mi?ht P rav to °e delivered from * We were inclined to shnn tie man living in open sin< sengUftl f gtj or whatever he might be, and not rethought of the fatherhood of God an<! remembered that God was in that man AZt- aS ,"J ourselv es. then the respon,,tlPi»f hrotherhood would be better .«»* lh / * ! 7 ico concluded with the fl he hvinn " Rescue the perishing, and the pronouncing of the Benediction.