EVANGELISTIC SERVICES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2240, 3 May 1881, Page 3

EVANGELISTIC SERVICES.

A meeting was held at the small Oddfellows’ Hall yesterday at 4 p.m. Thera were, besides several clergymen, a number of ladies present. Mr George Booth was called upon to preside. Bov. Mr Buller offered prayer. The Chairman called upon Mr Heywood to read a letter from Mr Twentyman, who was prevented from being present. The letter spoke of the work of Mrs Hampson in evangelising, and suggested that steps should be taken to render her mission here a success. Mr Heywood detailed the steps taken by the Young Men’s Christian Association in the matter, no far es calling the meeting. It was for the meeting to decide what should be done, as the Ministers’ Association and the Young Men's Christian Association had not thought it wise to take the matter in hand. In response to a request from the chairman, The Bev. Mr Taylor gave an account of the work of Mrs Hampson in Auckland, stating that he never heard the gospel presented in so simple, so homely, or so expressive a manner as by Mrs Hampson. He thought as a city they should invite Mrs Hampson as an evangelist. Mrs Hampson belonged to no church at all, yet claimed to be connected with everyone. Her non-church relationship had given rise to an idea that she was a Plymouthite, but she emphatically denied this. As an evangelist, Mrs Hampson had been remarkably successful, and as she bad given a guarantee that no controversial matter should be introduced into her teaching, he felt she would under God do a great deal of good. Something had been said of Mrs Hampson coming without credentials, but that lady had come to New Zealand to rest and not to work, but feeling so much better for her voyage and stay in Auckland, she resolved to go to work. Ho might say that Mrs Hampson had been offered letters of introduction to the Bev. Mr Morley, the Baptist minister, and to himself, but declined them, because she came to rest.

The Chairman asked whether any one would propose a resolution. After a slight pause, Kev. Mr Taylor said ho had thought that some older resident than himself would have moved the resolution he now submitted. He begged to move, “ That Mrs Hampson be invited to hold a mission in Christchurch.” Mr J. h. Wilson seconded the motion, which was agreed to. The following were appointed as a working committee, viz.:—Messrs George Gould, J. H. Twentyman, James T. Hart, H. Purdie, W. Ohry stall, Geergo Booth, with power to add to their number one minister from each denomination. Mr J. M. Heywood was appointed to convene the committee meeting. The meeting then terminated.