Y.W.C.A.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16487, 28 February 1914, Page 9

Y.W.C.A.

DIAMOND HARBOUR CONGRESS

Tlie Y.W.C.A. conference at Diamond Harbour was continued on Thursday.

Amongst the speakers was Mr Brownell, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. He referred to the financial work of the Association, and the necessity for combining business methods with religion, if there was to be a successful Association.

The mission study, circle met as usual, keen -discussion being general. Mr Jupp’s Bible study on the Ideals of the Master, emphasised the high standards set by Him, as compareduvitli the spirit of compromise found everywhere else'. . Miss Barnes spoke on 1 the work of the foreign department; The. Y.W. O. had already, undertaken to maintain an Australasian secretary in India, and the Twenty-four Hour Club hoped soon to have the money to send a secretary to China. ;KS That? club aimed at 365 members: due' tor each day of the year, and already over 200 had joined. In the evening the -Rev J. J. North gave an address on “The Man from Macedonia.” The speaker outlined the apparently contented state of the pagan, world when Paul heard the call to go to Greece ; nobody seemed to want his gospel,.and yet God heard the crv of the unrecognised needs of that world,Mand sent Paul with liis message, 60 vjthat dormant faculties might be : awakened. ■ Several'members of the Christchurch board bi management visited the. conference, during the - day. The Rev Gy P. Harris, now of Wellington, was also a visitor."MMr Harris is a recent arrival from Wales, and is much interested in New‘Zealand.