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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1920, Page 6

AGATHA (Aramaic word used by the early Christians-to cheer one another in tin' hope of our Lord's coming). SIGNS OF Tllli LOltD'S COiJlSf:. nirc Biun nature. "Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" Malt. xvi., :l There have been great storms and pestilences iiere and there all down tlie ages: but never have the lushing elements lilted the inhabitants of earth with such forebodings as now, Wo gannot remember any such dreadful ravages produced in the earth as caused by the bubonic plague, and (lie still more recent and universal scourge of influenza. Theiy have been failures of crops, and consequent famines 111 various localities from time to time, but never as now lias tlie evidence made itself seen and felt that the .earth is "waxing old like a garment" as beneath its load of transgression it begins to crumble to decay. Christians, "knowing tlie time, that now it is high time to awa'ce out of our sleep; for now is our solvation nearer tlutii when we tyeliev-