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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 560, 26 October 1871, Page 2

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vVi. would direct our readers to a notice in another column respecting the giaud secular concert to be given to-morrow evening in the Choral Hall. Its object is to r.iise funds "for providing an addition of some 800 volumes to the children's library in connection with St. Matthew's Sunday School. This school, we belie.c tho largest in the city, having an average ■attendance of 290 children, has atpresent a library of but 300 volumes; Of course, in such cireumstauoes, a weekly exchange among the children is an impossibility, and the laudable desire of the teachers is to extend the benefits of the library so as to make it really workable. We do not know of any _ agency that may ho more effective of "gnud than a well - selected library of book;, calculated to impress childreifs minds. It is au influence that operates at the most, susceptible period of human life, and

at a time when the mind is thirsting for knowledge, and where there are so many useless and even bad books bj which that thirst cau be satisfied, the placing of readable and interesting and good books iv children's hands, is, perhaps, the most powerful means iv the hands of a church tur doing real and permanent good. We trust that the consideration of this wiil mduce a bumper house in the Choral Hall. We learn that the concert, in itself, is likely to afford a treat of rare excellence.