YOUTH GATHERING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 25, 16 September 1946, Page 5

YOUTH GATHERING

THE MILDMAY MISSION YESTERDAY’S SERVICE Though the wet weather prevented the parade and march from Pohaturoa Rock, the special service for youth conducted by Mr Alfred Williams of the Mildmay Mission in the Parish Hall, was a singular success and an inspiration to , all who attended.

Representatives of the Scout, Guide, Boys’ Brigade organisations attended with their respective officers together with practically every other youth movement in the town,; and though the weather must have prevented many from being present there was well over a hundred and fifty, in the hall. Mr Williams who is an excellent narrator held his young audience spellbound as he handled key bible texts in a fascinating and. interesting way, driving home his points with anecdotes and first hand experiences of his own in the Old Country. His magnetic personality has been known to hundreds of school children and others during the week and yesterday’s gathering was something of a climax in which many of the airs he had taught previously to the local children were repeated.

Rousing hymns and spiritual choruses occupied the major portion of the service which was altogether brightest it has been our pleasure to attend. An illustrative talk on the triple heads ‘Nothing hid’; ‘nothing amiss’ and ‘nothing to pay’, was splendidly done and held the youthful gathering throughout. The whole service was a x tonic in itself of which the community could well do with many repetitions.