MEMORANDA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 8

MEMORANDA

Attention is drawn to the advertisement on page 1 for the annual anniversary services of the Baptist Sunday School. The choir of scholars, assisted by members of the usual church choir, will render splendid numbers of festival music under the skilled direction of Mr. W. R. Kemp as conductor. Several individual items will be given. At the morning service the address will be given by Mrs. Captain Smith, of the Salvation Army, while the pastor, the Rev. E. W. Balls, will preach at the afternoon and evening sessions. In the afternoon lie will deliver an illustrated message on "Bottles" and at 7 p.m. the second of a new scries of talks on "Things Seen and Heard in the Holy Land—The Street Called Straight." The scholarsannual tea and concert will be held on Tuesday evening.

Mr. Sarcl F. du PlessLs, an evangelist and lecturer from Johannesburg, South Africa, has arrived in Gisborne to conduct a series of meetings, the first of which is to be held in the City Hall on Sunday night, and the subject is entitled "Russia—Her Aims and Ultimate Destiny." Three thousand years ago prophecy made some remarkable statements which are being fulfilled with amazing accuracy. Two things are very plain in cpnnection with Soviet Russia, according to prophecy; she is to play a most dramatic and important part in the international arena and her downfall also is plainly inscribed on the pages of Scripture. Will Russia dominate Germany eventually and how will her policy affect the Near East? Mi-, du Plessis deals lucidly with this subject. 'Week-night meetings will be conducted in another public hall when subjects of great interest will be dealt with, some of these to be illustrated by lantern slides. A special feature will be "Wild Life in Dark Africa." Accompanying the speaker are Miss Stables as pianist and Mr. Mills, who will lead the song services, both from Auckland,