A Week's Special Services.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3055, 16 November 1888, Page 2

A Week's Special Services.

Special services at.the Masterlon Presbyterian Clmrdi are being held throughout the present week, .and finish this ovenlng. The Rev. J, Macdonald, of Petoue, is conducting tho services, He is an earnest and powerful speaker aud keeps the attention of his audience fixed throughout his. address. The, attendance each evening has been very good and last night was no exoeption, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. The Eev MrMacdonaldtook his text from II Book of Kings, sth chapter, on tho 1 subject of Naaman oured of his leprosy, In referring to the little Hebrew maiden through whose instrumentality the mighty captain of the Syrian host was cured of his loathsome; complaint, the speaker took theopportunity to urge upon parents the necessity for home instruction, in religion. "There wero no Sunday Schools in those days," remarked.tho lecturer,:" and yet the young girl had a clear knowledge of God, aud the power of His prophet." The necessity for-home iustruction,heAVeiit on to say* wjis the greater nowadays-in-New Zealand where- Bible reading was .banished from .the State Schools. He poiuted to this'little Hebrew captive, as. an. example of.what good could h done by even the humblest p'eraou." As to Naaiiian,; he was : a mighty; 11M of valor and captain of thousands,-'Jkls ho,™ .a; iep.ei'.,'.iljb.spealciav laid great'stasi iipoii ihis.l(ttle'co(yuiictioiii i.llverypneiliaila.f'bflli','iu.tjiefc UvoSriLasaayi, .aud. ti|D. world judged a what;".:' How; fie< queiitly; waif ■ heard'the remark " Mr So''Mid ! :B6'B'ii;;TO^ , 'gbod&an'J!rtMs got;;a ;sh(jr|:{pmperp ? di'j|; VHeVa sniUrt ■ mani'qf .bpiiess',; yeuyjCleyer A &c, ft!'? lie, takps,'9, tlraip,; V Qiv;wtaioyor;lnai Thow'orld never judged a. ;raftSpu'liis heat points but always 1 , on his weak'

orjiadj'pnes! The Beverend gontle- j mail then in well chosen words arid. ennicstjuanuei' showed how conversion destroyed the " huts." He showed that Milan was cleansed bodily and spiritually. He. went into the river Jordan a leper and an idolater, kt lie came out clean,his flesh like that of a child, with a new body and a new'spirit. Many other truths the lecturer put before his' audience and concluded with a powerful appeal to all the unconverted to follow the example set forth in.his .text, and get theirjins washed away. At intervals "during the evening selec-' tions from Sankey's songs were sung the whole assembly joining; heartily in the singing. Prayers, brief but pointed, were offered up by several present. This evening the series will be brought to a close,, arid those who have not yet'had an opportunity of hearing the' Rev. Mr Macdonald will do well not to juiss tlie chirnco that is once more offered.