Y.M.C.A. NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2193, 4 July 1914, Page 9

Y.M.C.A. NOTES.

Ihe North Island associations plt-Jgo a thousand pounds tovards tho cost of tho Y..U.CA. budding tor the students ot H\derabad, India. Mr. J. 11. Lang, Now "Zealand's rcpiescntauvo 01 tno l'oieign field, has been using Skiveral weeks of his furlough to briii" a grcjt nios-sagc to his homo folk in this country. During threo »nd a half j cars of dovoted service in a very diflicult field, Mr. and Mrs. Lang have-camed on three branches of the for tho Anglo-Indian young men, qno Jor tho British soldiers, • and ono lor tho Indian students. Buildings for tfco hret two na»-e been crseted by ihoofficials and churns of Hydcraoad, oi all religions and crc-.ds. Tho bu-ldin" will bo furnished by tno assocm'ioiw of No»v Zealand ana 'Australia. Mr. Lang is now touring the South Island. ~ „ ,■- n « • The membership oi,tto K.-d.t.A. in Now 'Zealand is showing a steady and healthy growth. During tho months or March and May over eleven hundred low' members wor© aadea, and thr.'C new general secretaries bosan their work. Even greater progress uas mule in tho enlistment and training of honorary r.orKcrs for tho many departnlLcvin maintains a varicd'Vork be--caus* of the splendid spirit of earvico ir this little a«oeif>t,on. A crcditaola nrlo cl.oir, intermedial and junior dcr'artments, senior Biblo, chss, and m .thloiic club are all "going MECorns. Christ'Eurch Y.M.C.A.. in adding 300 Ilt 4 members, passes th* 1200 marker seniors, and takes tho lead among Now Zealand Associations. Tho scc-al icrrice rendered in tho Lake Coleridge construction camp was valuable, and should open tue nay to similar work Cl Mr 10 J°.' T/. Hall, of North CanterbuWchaiimanof tho Rural flora Committed, appointed b 3 tho Nati.njl Con-"ni-on of tho V.M0..V., plMMto visit America won, and wn.lo there will study (lie methods employed by tho hundred or more secretaries whoso attention tircl\ devoted to roral work, in "m/alox Jameson, National Y'M.C.A. secretary, visited Wellington last wo<\i ljn feft en Tuesday for Lis Soutu Island Tl Tho Bov Charles M. Sheldon, the famous author of "In His Steps," "Whit "Would Jcaus Vat" and otner 1-ooub treating the problem 1 -, of social £.ce, will tour New Zealand in September under tho management of tho YMC A. The threo groat IAWs which he will J" 1 «° ra V- » *™mo Results of a Tn» Education," "Christianity a. a Old and Not W.ajs." ar.d The .Main Things of Life.'*'