SPECIAL SERVICE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1151, 14 August 1882, Page 2

SPECIAL SERVICE.

~ ,On Sunday.morning at 'the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. James MoKee'preaohed • from 1 .Cor. 18:18,"" ""And "now "abidbth il «itK!;h'ope,''aria'ohftHty;theWWree? but . r the greatest oßhese is charity," and, in I 'iritrdducing'lit«ybiect said,' Christianity " kftW? er r* IWW^j'rfmiplJwhiob' [ i ffl6yes;Mm,;''Jnd -fin rrier^prn/easion or '. phati.torai.p l lt ; J exljtbi(8 J ifself' in.'.'miny !uW> in possessing tjiejijhi'ee graces or virtues mentioned in the text. ' Mr'MoKee prooeedeOo^explain"ihe tfatfla i oii A ttle i sopertority % of 'oKa'rity or 1 R ara.many ways in whion flieae can be tdoije.. .Thece arejthe noorAnd: friendless iih Mr. own oommunityiiri'iLetiit'he"o|ur priviHela'ndi duty, to i!give'JiraeticHl }xtyreWon to-our B)ttpfthy4r' them |by .aidine.tliem tn~lhe best of our ability. , Often we'xkiPdn 1 this bdrby uiving o> mite to oharitahlb institutions. Whether 1 itik let us aid the poptand :MendleßS as God has ; proapere'd'flS. ThW flieri- are the poor 1 fay privilege to-day.to plead with ynu on pahalf,ofcthe:p:flrieQOted Jfewaift Southk ! Rmsiajiand those who have esoaped the .'swnrdobf 4ho;arriiiraerer and fonhH [an - -ftsylmn-on-some-hospitable-shore, but r. xthe &Wkiffi ihe t mnrderer, are itua state of total destitu-,-.pfesaea:'Thel'Hbagle?ders in l^ iiflwa M Mta#, «(on :bfcaji3V£hio.h/thß8 4 ri & severity especially jn the There the mob-plundered, maltreat id, and raurdereftWrfojlahdi. There, are, it n. dereflUs / olJte , ly''Aesfit'u l^l'ro l UBh it! In theiown. of. Bislia;„with a pppb ation of town was the scene of one of the m >st single Jewish (Wing was left, all their i^Jl]Rtrwti.nf§Btpttnt#nyhe J f,onTen were violated and then many of. fhim were ruthlessly mnrderedTn the pieiencr QtlteiriielpJetf.'hifßbiidelJvJio «o [ on this and !? l " t ß|„w.wni :| eioaped- wlthAuV olnthing, and'iifitliodrany means ofetjp. iporfc'j'ttiankful'to:Godui'd of the mob. Sovery severely thia' •'perEMutiottrsged'thit oMU whojhfiV.. total asking wH, was the M® of*Slt!.thisi ■• persptidn. Thegenerßloanse .wf*^HfcWhaa'Weh

This, they lent but; Wfi lUttuaira plants, who' were, owing|§M\bad times* unable to pay interest M lir lir iteregjepd; espeoiallf eeourity l Ten 88-#■*"?*')B 8 -#■*"?*') then lupewtifwnV waa re gardless of law or humadiljCbegan their work of bloodshed and rapine Doubtle a : t . b "**!™^ a not, say the/Jews were KmltlesTinTiie, matter, _ but whateTer may have beeb< black Btam upon .oentury,. Jt -a ou^ommo n brotberhoodA¥h& V .ffel' .Umm » ; m&tifa i ligious sentiments and perhap politi 0p.n.0 father, race through', whom many of our beat law»oame. Vey »nd-ihithfeir r the strongest evidenoe of the existence «.f •KfMout SdditwloplekdL'onitheif- behalf for the honor, of buti gstiofi, .iffie'mbat. Honorable and noble in the world A 'te(f(?! ( l , )r3 ,^1 i er hwi| l,Bi i'F(i thehas nobly liheraied herslavis'.U'Alnate may well be proud ofherliberaUtyrWm%fenWSmmgW* toov«d Ml but urfne.tore cVnel'ty of this persecution; 4"tof ftthis small 1 depradenoy oim.omt nation, .to, m, cause. I plead on behalf of theTJem r 6Y account 0 f our common' 3, &£&>, weas, ( ln 1847 wh»-i a famine-raged. o»me to the femfne aacken)people, from, the Jews Of Busaia and other places, •^rotbrenj-hereiiß.:a , pri*ilß| i eiaff6rd«d! uV "•day, It has pleased God to plaee our lot in a land of Beta'eAd'ieJdffitfc tf&ff Theory comes'tMs W from those in distress for help, let as not i P mer,oy v S ra rletßS>aid, in clothing the nak.e.d>,fe.ediog,the hungry;, and id so doing we practical expression', to Brethren' 1 plead for the paraeouted-Jewi-on-aocount of fttie' "V *&P\ M d > l k .religion •he strong to help the weak, but also if pur euemy hungor.tha>r^»e'feed , him, arid' ££L b JMMxedothejim.' "