Pleasant Sunday Afternoons.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 262, 11 May 1897, Page 3

Pleasant Sunday Afternoons.

A gathering, the first of a proposed series, with the abovo title, was held in Glasgow House, in the gymnasium of tho Boys' Club, last Sunday afternoon, at 3.30, in pursuance of a notice which appeared in onr columns. There were some 60 or 70 persons present. The scope and general aim of this attempt to provide an hour's wholesome relaxation on Sunday afternoons may be gathered from tbe opening remarks of the chairman for the day (Mr Greenwood) who said : — I have been asked to act as chair, man tbis afternoon, and before beginning tho proceedings I should like to say a few words as to the object of these gatherings and the steps which have led up to tbis first meetiog. A short time ago some of those interested iv Sunday work knowing that gatherings^ of this kind had been found useful in other places, determined to try whether they might supply a want here in Feilding They accordingly obtained leave to use this room for tbe purpose ou Sunday afternoons, and called a meeting by ad yertisement, of all interested. At this meeting a committee was chosen to select speakers, arrange about music, and take the general management. The general idea is that there should bo some bright music, and a short address on some topic of interest. The whole affair not to last more than an hour. The general character of the these meetings will depend very much on the views of those who may be asked from time to time to give addresses, and the amount of hearty co-operatisn which the committee may receive. If I were asked what sort of pleasantness is aimed at in theso meetings, I mi^ht say that it is the pleasantness which comes from seeking after that trne wisdom of which we are told that " Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her raths are peace" The followiDg programme was then gone through : — Hymns 15, 117, 10(5, (Sankey). A short prayer hy Rev J. Cocker, hymn 100, and then a short practical address by Mr Cocker on " Companionship," showing the danger of bad companions aud the advantage of good ones. Hymn 52 ; a solo '• Consider the Lillies" by Mrs Wood, and another hymn concluded the meetiug. It was announced that the Rev. F. Stubbs would give on address next Sunday.