CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9702, 27 January 1910, Page 7

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

AN APPEAL FOR MISSION *UNDS. Last Sunday morning, at the Congregational Church, the service was of a special missionai*y character, when an appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. A. Hodge, and an appeal was made for contributions to be given throueh the missionary boxes distributed amongst the families. Mr Hodgej in his address, said that there were yet one thousand million people in the world to evangelise; that the missionary force at present consisted of 13,000 men and women, while 40,000 were needed, which would give each missionary a charge of 25,000 souls; that the missionary income at present was £4,500,000 per annum, while the drink bill of England was £160,000,000 per annum, and yet all the riiissionary societies asked for was £20,000,000, and get four and a half million. It had been stated by Sir Robert Giffen that the British peopie saved £1,000.000 sterling per day, 365,000,000 sterling per year, and yet all they contributed per year for evangelising the world was £1,800,000 sterling. Coming to the Congregational Missionary Society (M.L.S.) Mr Hodge said that a great work was being carried on by the Congregational Church in India, where the work was necessarily large ly educational: in China, where all the doors were opening, and opportunities far beyond their possible operations; in South Africa, where the work was rendered hard at present owing to severe commercial depression; in Central Africa, where the sleeping disease had seriously interfered, making it necessary often to change the site of the stations; in the South Seas, where the native churches were learning to be self supporting, and at Papua, where the natives were showing better fire in their character. The Congregational Missionary Society was 114 years old. and was an important factor in the history of the development of the race because of the strategic positions held, such a s the great Presidency towns in India, in the strongholds of enthusiasm, in the centres of population, in the treaty ports and seats cf Government; in China, and many points of vantage in South and Central Africa, and chosen bases in New Guinea and the Polynesian Islands, The income of the Society,. from the Congregational churches, for the last year had been£l4o,s92,exclusive of the money raised on the mission fields, and the expenditure had been £13,387 more thd»/ that, hence the earnest appeal which is being made for increase of fun's to overtake the ever-increas-irig work.

WORKS OF THE DEVIL. A schoolboy, being asked to explain what is meant by "the devil and all his works," said he supposed it meant "the devil and his inside." This boy was, probably, the first person to whom it had occurred that the devil possessed an inside, though millions of sufferers have, no doubt, thought that their own insides were possessed by the devil. At any rate, when our "works" are out of order, we feel as though his black majesty had taken full charge. Especially is this the case when, as so commonly happens, something goes wrong with the kidneys and liver. Derangement of those vital organs is the cause of most of the suffering by which humanity is afflicted. Rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sciatica, blood disorders, anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, general debility, gravel, stone, and bladder troubles,' to say nothing of Bright's disease, are all caused by disorder or disease of the kidneys and liver. When we suffer from nnv of those complaints, it is the primary condition to recovery that the kidneys and liver must be induced again efficiently perform their allotted task of extracting and removing from the system the uric and biliary poisons which are the exciting cause "of the trouble. This is the reason that Warner's Safe Cure is so eminently successful in the treatment of the disorders named, and, if you suffer from one or more of them, you cannot do better than to at once resort to Warner's Safe Cure, simply because the medicine restores the kidneys and liver to health and activity, and Nature doesthe rest. Warner's Safe Cure can be obtained from any chemist or storekeeper, both in the original form, and in the cheaper " Concentrated," non-alcoholic form, each containing the same number of doses.