SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1922, Page 6

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. The address on the camp ground was delivered last night by Pastor A. W. Anderson to a tent full of attentive listeners. The subject presented was, “Industrial Unrest and its Solution.” The speaker introduced his subject by the statement that unrest had increased fiftyfold since the war. He drew attention to the statement made of late by Pope Benedict respecting present conditions. His Holiness attributed the present state of affairs to five causes, the first being the widespread challenge to constituted authority; the second to national race and color hatred; _the third, abnormal aversion to work/ This, the speaker pointed out, was very pronounced in Australia, some factories displaying the notice, “Go slow.” The fourth cause was extreme thirst for pleasure, and the fifth gross materialism. Some people, he said, looked for a' bettering of conditions by the influence of religion, legislation and education, but the Scriptures foretold that things will grow worse to the end: “In the last days perilous times shall come, because men shall be lovers of their own selves.”.

The great nations, he said, were living on a valcano. The leaders of the nations were attacking the symptoms instead of the causes. Legislation did not make men unselfish: it took the grace of God to do that. The reign of Solomon was cited to illustrate the inner working of these things. The speaker closed an interesting address by exhorting his hearers to seek the unselfish principles set forth in the Christian life, and thus be prepared for the coming crisis of the ages.