ANGLICAN MISSION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1515, 5 June 1886, Page 2

ANGLICAN MISSION.

At 7.30 a service was held in St, Saviour’s Church, Temuka, last Thursday morning. There was a large attendance at Holy Communion, and there was also a good attendance at JO o'clock, the day being Ascension Day. In the evening at 7 o’clock services were held at St. John the Evangelist’s Church, Winchester, at which there were about 70 persons present notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather. The service was conducted by the Rav. T. A. Hamilton, and the Rev. Mr Bodlngton preached an eloquent sermon from Ephesians iv„ ID. In the course of his address he contrasted New Zealand with England, pointing out the many nalura 1 nad political advantages we enjoy in this colony as compared with the Mother Country, The colony was much more fertile and productive than England, 1 the climate was better, food was more plentiful, the hours of labor were shorter, and the people were not pent up in overcrowded cities, as was the case in the Old Country. There was a great future before the colony, and it was a great pity it was marred by the National neglect of religion. He urged that this neglect of religious training would eventually lead to lawlessness and anarchy, This neglect in America had produced already such results as he pointpd pns, In that country life was so lightly valued that ipon resorted to revolver or knife on the least provocation. He told how a railway conductor in America found three stowaways on his train, and when he removed then) one of them drew a revolver and

fired two shot*, which fortunately took no effect. The conductor, taking it as a matter of course, merely smiled and went on with his train. He contended that religion alone would cause a man to restrain and govern his passion, and he exhorted those present not to rest until religious instruction was given daily in their public schools. At the conclusion of the service the rev. missioner bade farewell individually to those present, giving each of them as they passed out of the Church a memorial card of the mission, The rev, gentleman left for Timaru by the express yesterday, and opened his mission there last night.