PRESBYTERIAN SUMMER SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3052, 24 November 1908, Page 7

PRESBYTERIAN SUMMER SCHOOL.

PREPARATIONS WELL IN HAND. A CIRCULAR TO BIBLE CLASS MEMBERS. The largest event of its kind ever held in Masterton—the annual session of the New Zealand Presbyterian Bible Class Summer School—is being arranged for by the local executive on a scale of the utmost completeness. There are indications of a record attendance on account of the centrality of the school this year —in fact Masterton ia "suprema a situ" in many respects for an affair of this nature. In view of this fact a large band of workers is busily occupied in arranging the preliminaries, which are obviously many, seeing that perhsps eight hundred people will be quartered in the town for a week, and these eight hundred have an extensive and varied curricuk lum. A fresh ani vigorous circular to V all the Presbyterian Bible Classm embers in the Domic ion has been issued, the text of which is as follows :—■ "We remind you again of the Summer School to lake place from December 24th to 31st, 1908, Masterton. It is going to be the 'biggest MTid best' without but only if you as a member of your class do your uuty. , "We want you to recognise that you, your class, and your union need the Summer School. For the Summer tSchool is the focalising point of the work of our youth of the Church Committee, our travelling Secretary, Bible Class leaders and Sunday School teachers. Here you get the best that our young people's movement in the Church can offer its ideals, its inspirations, its most successful and approved methods. Our Church of New Zealand gives of its best for this work at the Summer School. For this reason you seed our Summer School. "We want you to recognise next that the Summer School needs you. You are the Bibl class member, you are the Sunday School teacher we want at the Summer School, because we want to help you, your class, your Sunday School. "Now if you can't come, we want you to make an effort to do what other class members did last year in order to get the benefits <?t the Sum*mer School for your class—combine to send at least one representative from your Class. Perhaps 2s 6d from each member could secure that result. It will be money well spent on your Class or Sunday School. "We want to remind you that, apart from the gain to the Class, Union and Youth of the Church work generally, our Summer School affords the best holiday you could wish—cheap travelling, good companionship, cheap living, camp life, sports' con- 1 tfests, outdoor entertainment, bodily J-ecuperatiom mental quickening, I spiritual Stimulus. There is every I IreaSOh Why you should come. i4 We want to remind you that wje shall be satisfied as to your absence when we feel that you have faithfully made every effort, but have found yourself face to face with the impossible. "Having made up your mind to come we would remind you of the following 1. That you nhould register as a student at once by cutting off the form annexed and posting it with registration fee to Mr W. E. Chamberlain, Masterton. 2. That you should bring the following requisites for camp and sporty fete.—rug, blankets, pillow, towel, soap, etc., brush, boot polish outfit, tennis shoes, note book, pencil, Church prai&e and Bible. 3 That you should label your goods "Ladies'" or "Men's" Camp, Summer School, Masterton. 4. That you should wear on arrival a dark blue badge.