SAILORS' FRIEND SOCIETY
The large Institute was crowded with an appreciative audience last evening, when At.iss Cmuunghani provided aft interesting entertainment. Mr. J, Moore, Mi.ssioiier, presided. _ The following confcrilMitcd items;— Misses Ctirtnwghaiii ; A, J.toeHor, F. Biitterfield, Fairctoiigh, Messrs. C. Cclims, Nattoe, H, CalpuS; ami I'Vazer (R.iI.S. lonic). Mr. Carter played the aeco-mpaHimonts. A.inciith organ cmnpetJtion was heW, t : itG i'o?« lowing competing:—Messrs. P. Smith {Il.lK'S. ionic). Severn (ex Niagara), ami CoGiwr (Mamari), and a most auwisiuw i'Miindvum cwwpotition was won 'by saifors itwbi- the lonic. The perfonnefti «'<re aeowtled a hearty' veto of tlianhs. Tho society tluinkcd .Misses Fflitoit and Kemp !'«•' koeping tlie church iUKt itpstitato provided, v.-itii flmwrg, and Mr. Sorttuso-u for his gift of three offertory tews. During th» eourso of tho -cvciviiig Mr.- W. Fuller (a lueii-ihor of tlw eoMinrittce) laroposed tlie Folloiring i«.olution:—"Tins iarg;& atidiwtCG Itas heard with kcrmi'-satis-factioM tho result af Mrs. Vi'illtinns's itotennined action in seejiriiiK tins bisildiliK and reiitst-aling Mr. Mooro in his old position after long and (wotvaetod. prfti'wec'ling-s, and wislw-s to place on record its high approciation of Mrs. Williams's efforts ou W«it[ of (lie society, the workers, and sailors tho wo-rid over." Connnanrter Htsojjer seconded the and expressed Ids great ptesnro that the prospects WH so favourable for a vestinip-tion of the work o)i old lines after Mrs. WilIkuus's heart. Mr, R, G. Reimer, spcretaiy ta the society, i'u aii-pp-B-rtfag tho .K'soh-itio!!, desired on behalf o,f Mrs, Williams to rontove an erroneous j«ipH'Ssten that had got abroad in the city, uaraely, that on the. decease of the drmw and Mr. Monro, flic building wwld royorfc in the- Missiojis to Seamen. Ho said that ttip woi-ding <if the deed did not omivo.v this, but- that on tlie <fcra*as«< nf tii-osti iiaiiied tlie old ordor of things in existence before Mr. Moore's breakdown \Wiuhl cotit'muo, the Inwtces Kiill hotdiiig i)w odillco isrid havitig a v,iici> in tlw appaintiivejit -of a livisbioHer. I'wiswr f'H.MJ. ionic), Sproul I's.s. Maitai), and FarqWlrav <s.s. Ka-p-iinii. and olfiers spoke to f\it\ resolniton, wliiidi whs carried unanimously, Mrs. Williams, mi rising lo ifsjioml, received an oval ion laMhft; some time. She esprc-si'cd her great pleasure at i'in-r-essaiinn fif liiijiafioii. and intimated lliat her desire- was I kit the snijors of Use world should ever find a home in tho building she had been permitted to erect.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 10
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388SAILORS' FRIEND SOCIETY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 10
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