SALE OF WORK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17690, 30 July 1919, Page 10

SALE OF WORK.

The annual sale of work by the P W M U in aid of the Home and Foreign Missions and the.Braining Institute was hold in the Burns Hall yesterday altemoon and evening. The hall was tastefully decorated, ana there was an abundance of useful articles much .met with a roady Ealo, oil the various stalls. Proceedings were officially opened by the Rot. W. Gray Dixon, who, in mentioning the work put in by the stallholders, said that without the womanhood of tho church the work of the Gospel would be most difficult The Christian Church stood for the League of Nations. It was a commonplace of our religion that all men were of one blood, gathered into one brotherhood. Our greatest generals were appealing to the church, in yiew of +ho momentous problems which confronted us, not to fail them, but to put as much energy and self-sacrifice into its work as our soldiers had put into the army. The speaker quoted striking \vord3 to that effect from Earl Haig and General Bvng. He said that God had puj a special fire of selfsacrifice into women's hearts; hcnco their devotion to tho causo of religion. Tho results of this devotion were pLa inly in evidence at this bazaar. Mr Dixon then officially declared the bazaar open, and wished tlvvt it meet with every success. One of the features of the sale was that all the stallholders adopted Oriental costumes for tho occasion. On the platform was an especially interesting display of Chinese. Japanese. Indian, and South Pacifio Isla.nd curios, while one of tlie stalls was given over to choice Chinese and Indian needlework. During the evening a most enjoyablo musical programme was submitted.