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HASTINGS

The United Friendly Societies held*- a. demonstration on the- racecourse, Has tings,'- on. Sunday?- December'- 2, on behalf of. the. Napier, Hospital funds. - Among' the friendly societies- who' took -.part- in -the 'procession were'"* lliberiAans to the number of 105. Addresses were delivered by the Mayor '; of Hastings,,. >, .Very Rev: Dean =•- Smyth, Sir William Ru&sell, .Mr. -A. L. D. Fraser ' M.H.R., JVIr. Dillon, M.H.H., and others. . '« Dean Smyth spoke on an ' Charity," and showed Vl how,- 'from the "very first, *th 1 c Church"'; made ' pro visibn' for the poor, the sick, the old, and- the infirm. From, the early days of Christianity down" to the "present" * time, .hospitals and institutions' for- the alleviation • "of r human misery , had been" established and fostered" 'by' the ' Church: And in our own times, .who : has' not heard- of the devotedries_s and self-sacriiice of the Sisters of. Char^"' ♦•ty, the Sisters- of." Mercy, and other associations 'of H noble-minded and charitable woman,' who perpetuate' 'i those great works of chanty in hospitals and on the '-: battlefield? And what .has .these heroic worn- -'' en to devote their lives, to such a grand work? ' Theteaching and spirit of "their Divine Master. And ;b; by l whom have they been encouraged and prepared for' the"' work ? By the Church founded by that "same Divine'V Master.- Yes, it is tha .spirit' oi Christ, the abiding influence of Christianity that has infused life, strength, and vigor into those natural- traits of -ours, -not >- merely giving' them " expansion, but imparting to them:a ' superhuman force and power of endurance which , humane nature, left to itself, would never possess. And -so - deeply hacTthis spii.it rooted itself in the' breast ofhumamty in general, that though individuals may have lost it or shaken it off, its beneficent influence hovers round them in spite of themselves ; and, though how- . adays many perform good and kind and praiseworthy works— through a purely philanthropic spirit, without any Christian motive oii their part, these actions eman- ' ate from a traditional spirit of Christianity — riot acknowledged if you will, but 'all the samq handed! down to them, perhaps from thxfcr saintly forefathers.

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New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 33

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HASTINGS New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 33

HASTINGS New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 33

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