MISSION TO MEN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 715, 14 January 1910, Page 6

MISSION TO MEN.

I [ ••-. According to an - Austrahan Church te'v'paper,:vlainy. in; regret . hayirig . missed; bearing the . Rev.- H. > v S.-AVoolcnmLe (who is on a world tour | ; and- who will , speak in Wellington ■ Town EgKj'i'HalL'on';the '2Sth -,arid '30th instant);ln a . . other places, where ; thousarids have .lis- ,; IrSS'tffiaed; to this' inspiring,speaker,-tiiey have : pyfelffienfiririch-' the* charm of I /•.'-. his'".personality * and - have come to the ~ | conclusion that a London speaker -was - p... right when. he:.stated-,.that . Mr.- Wool- :' j i-;'.,combo.-.''is -one ;of '-the - - 'Ijest -'- paltform : speakersof. to-day." v■)■ <ij-; : i \ f;£^';it'a.meetiig,;iialii'in "Wellington last) • IT;' night,: a,nuiriber.- of imen- pledged them- '; in "such ■; i';. : that-there is good reason, to . !;.-.. believe that great interest will be aroused ■'. [.- ■■' } : over : thocoming; of; the 'man • who has ■ S.VA-;addressed,- : .tins. 1 of, ; thousands..since,.. his' ; ,:.three 'years tour df ':,the. colonies. : began.fSii&i The;, following. is, an' extract from' a - report fi@? 'of com■ - of.;: fir.. W.oolcomhe's. J,;-. Then,: bywayof illustration, came the j' ; following story of a small-' I ,shoe-black, tj'S: taked;,'by one 'of ■; those splendid,i womeri |j . who ;'.work ;for ■ Christ. amongst • the \ : Bast t'. Enders for. something for . the mjssion-/-anea. After/ he ■ hadgiven the : . sixpence - H.:* ,she-had asked for, she also got his pro- : |;;; r:: ;;imsa; : to- go'to "the meeting at; which; this i-particular mission ' was ---. going to be ; i .- spoken about. ■On his way ho A was.'met by a mate.- "Where ye goin', Jack?" , -I-am ,just goin' over to a missioni. •; aij inoeting." ••Wot,", was the. ainazed . question. -"Well,.you 'see this:is hmv it ■ : is," explained Jack:. "a; lady, fnond' of • mine aidced mo for -a tanner for the ■ i '/■: Mission ;!.60 ;I've become a' sort of: part- ';. k ner ln. the-concern; and now I'm-going downto: sco how my 1 money's spent;"' f.i And - then,as - tho .laughter subsided, ho drove tho point- in: /If every sleeping ' Churchman would wake up to the fact tVy.-[ that he .is no Churchman, at-all until he p:HK.Bhqwß,'an^"active concern, in - the,: lifeJand >: ,-! ■ affairs of the Church to, which he beE longs,- .then the Chirreh would at once f.gj?.-become, a : ' hundred-fold> stranger than ; it > js "to-day." r