Y.M.C.A. FOREIGN MISSION WORK

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10423, 14 September 1911, Page 5

Y.M.C.A. FOREIGN MISSION WORK

Mr J. R. Mohol, of Melbourne, lion, secretary .to It be Foreign Work Departmemt of the Y.M.C.A. of Australia and New Zealand, delivered a JixnieJigjhlfc lecture in Knox Sail / last nigjhtt, before a good audicsnoe. Dr Prior, the local President, was' not able Ito get in at the beginning of itlhle meeting, and in the unavoidable absence of the • Rfev\ A. T. Ttonnpstan, the Hev., A, Hodge pireI sided, amid introduced the lecturer, I wfco gave .a most thiri]]Sng. antL int&r- , esting account of the awakening of tibe' people of thje Far Eaist, creating a mloßt momentous' crisis in the (history of. Christian work affbndlmg a great opportunity, before the Ghrfiistian diiurcih, whicih, if not taken advantage of, would result sn> the door being closed. The problem ,to-day in thje East was not political, ediueat- . ioniaH or leooiuxmfiei, .but religious and social. As a-resiult of mission work tlhfer© was already & marked improvement in the moral life of all those influenced by it, and a ispiritual ilevdivai!! wlhicihi •wlas' resulting in a nuostt I earnest ical* ifor meai and money to i oventakte tiue work.- Dir !Plrior m<bv©d 1 a" vote- of thlanksto (the 4eoture>r, and : Mr McHattie, wiho worked the lantern', was also accorded a vote of thanks. :