CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR UNION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2011, 19 March 1914, Page 6

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR UNION.

i . ,-. ■ .--.« ! . ANNUAL CONVENTION. : ; ' The meetings of the Wellington Proi viijoiiil Clirist-iau Endoavour Union'are . being hold at the Tarauaki Street i Methodist Church. • Tuesday night's missioiiary meeting . was addressed by the llev. A, E. Hunt', . who for 15 years worked among the ! natives of Samoa o.n<l Papua, Mr. . Hunt, who was a fellawMvorkcr with ) the groat "Dr. Chalmers (Tamati) told i some stirring .iuctdents a£ the self-sac- ) rifice of the natives in. order to .spread 1 tho'gospel. Mr. Arthur Taylor, of the ! China Inland Mission, who alsa was to l have spoken, had to cancel all cugsigc- > inents owing to a breakdown in lieaiHi. i Yesterday was the junior Endeavour* . Ms , "big day." There were several : . hundred juniors-present at the eonse- . cratkm meeting, at 4.15. Sir. A. Var- ; noy, general secretary -of tlie Y.M.0.A., ; spofco on "The Thing That Counts."! That -vvhieh is accomplished by effort, \ i bv sacriiicej and drove honio his point i with two very impressive illustrations, , referring to the engineer who stood at ; his post down in the engine room of the i Titanic, and kept the dynamo going, ; knowing that he was providing light, i by which means many lives were bei«p; • saved. This at the cost of his own life. • The illustration of a foci who had gainl ed highest honours at a university was i tho other illustration. O» receiving bis • reward he stepped off tlie platform, ami,: ■ walking m> to his aged mother, who had r saeriftoed much in order to give her boy » au education, pinned tho gold medal upon her. ami said, "Mother it. is 1 yciirs; your great sacrifice has won it." : i This cjec-jity impressed the .youiig people. l The annual-tea was" held in Wesley' Hall. The tea-t-ablos were prettily arranged by the leaders of the j-traios - societies, and about 250 sat down to tea. The evening demoiistratioii wns witness- ' ed by a crowded audience, Wesley Hall ' being packod-te tire doors, many "people . I hting Hiiabte to obtain seats, Tho pro- ■ gtainme was contributed to by Erideav--1 mirers resM'eseiitiiSK the following saeieI ti-es:—Brooklyn Presbyterian, Constable Street Congregational, l 3 etoi»o Mctliad- '. ist. Hfsoklyn Baptist, Triirity Metfrod- \ ist, Tiirnnaki Street Methodist, Karori \ Methodist., Vivian Street Baptist, St. ; James (Presbyterian), Kiltiirnic Metli*j i>dist, B-srhafnpore Mcthotlist, Webb Stj-eet Metlwdibt, and Berhamporc Bap- \ tist. ■ Uui'iiiK the evening the Rogers Jits-' , skiiary which is competed l for i br all junior societies in tlie WelJiHs:-! \ ton province, for raising tlio highest t amount per member far foreign mis- [ sions, was awarded to tho Turanald , Street. Methodist juniors by tho presi- \ dent {the Rev. P. J. Cosstim), the win- . uers having -raised oh the average 13s. i 7(1. psr member during tlw past year. This is the third time out of six years the shield has been won by the Tara* naki Street juniors. Tho secretary '< <Mr. L. J. Brabin), on atiuounc--1 ing th-o ci-owninjj mooting which h to be held to-night at 7.J5, and ' 'which is to bo the consecration service {tho address to be delivered by the Rbv. ! O. Knowles Smith, presi- ' dent), poititcfi out the claim tlie- young > people had on the support of iho 1 Church. Tho young Endeavourcrs to- j ' clav wore the Churdi of the future. The 5 very fact <if the EsuleftVOTiroHs' raisiiig £180 for Homo and foreign missions 1 during the past year, and of tlreir Ucep-■ " iiip- in totich with nearly every mission. '' Held in the worlfl, apart from the wbrte 5 they wero doing in their own City, call' I ed for Ri-nater interest aiid s'lipport ' from the Church of which they form a