MASTERTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5

MASTERTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

"SPRING" SERVICE. A "spring" service was held at the Maaterton Presbyterian Oburoh, yesterday. The Church had been tastefully deoorated by the ladies. There was a large congregation at the morninE service, probably the largest at any service since the new Church was erected. The preaoher, Rev. A. T. Thompson, delivered a speoial address to the ohildren at the morning service, taking for his subjeot—> "All things are passed away; behold all things become new." In his address to the congregation be took for flis subjeot—,'The message of a flower." During the course of an eloquent sermon the preacher took as an illustration a daisy, and explained that the three main ideas to be derived from that flower were service, self-renunoiation and beauty. The peeacher then Bhowed how these three ideas were exemplified in the life of Christ, who renounced his own interests for the sake of men.

At the evening service the subject was—"Do men gather grapes off thorns or figs off thistles." The preaoher, Mr Thompson, treated life as a garden, and showed that the harvest was appropriate of the kind of seed sown. The seed, be said, was really thought. Thoughts issue in action and aotion in character, and character was really the harvest that was reaped. The main object of the address was to show the operation of the natural law in the spiritual wotld. The choir, under the direction of Mr A. Niool, rendered special anthems appropriate of the occasion. Mr R. Young sang the solos. The service ia nut an annual one, but Mr Thompson hopes to make it so.

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