CHRISTIAN UNITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 7

CHRISTIAN UNITY

ADDRES BY DR A. G. HALL. CLASS STUDY PERIOD TONIGHT. The Y.M.C.A. Hall was filled to capacity last evening, almost 300 people attending to hear' an address by the Rev Alfred G. Hall, D.D., Ph.D., director-general of the World Fellowship of Faith and Service, on “The Power of Christian Psychology.” Mr R. H. Keitie was chairman and associated with him were Messrs Ben Roberts, M.P., and Mr R. H. Anker, of Greytown. Dr Hall again delivered a most stirring and forceful address, and his audience was gripped throughout. In opening, Dr Hall expressed his appreciation of such a large attendance. From conversations he had had that day, he said, he felt that Masterton was ready to accept a fuller conception of the new' spirituality. Bringing the state of Heaven into reality in the ■fives of the people one associated with, and so into one’s own -ife was the objective of the fellowship in the practical application of the message of the Sermon on the Mount. Travelling the world as he was doing. Dr Hall said, he was amazed to find so many signs of the dropping of differences between the various churches. There were very definite evidences of this in both the Eastern countries and m Western lands. People realised how near the union of all churches into one church oi unity really was. He felt that many in his audience would live to see the apex of the heaven on earth —the joining of all churches and peoples in one real fellowship. Dr Hall will conduct a special class study period at the Y.M.C.A. tonight at 8 o’clock, at which it is expected there will be a large attendance and to which the public is invited. The subjects for the study evening will be: The true nature of the sacrament of forgiveness and its phychological effect; the science of modern prayer and the relationship that is thereby set up between God and man; the science of Divine healing; and the creation of lasting prosperity by the practice of spiritual law'. A special offering will be taken up to aid the work of the fellowship of which Dr Hall is the wond head. As Dr Hall is condensing four lessons into one this evening he suggests that only those who have attended a lecture should attend; otherwise his hearerse would be unable to follow the lessons very intelligently.