PERSONAL.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 272, 18 February 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL.

(Contributed). Our readers will be pleased to know that Miss Atkinson (our l.itr VicePresident) though away in England,’ does not forget New Zealand White Ribbotiers. Many a par in our “Women at Work” column is sent by her to our Editor* as a clipping from some English paper. Also we have been privileged to read her diary of her trip home, a most interesting account of Panama, and many other places of interest. We wish our mu< h-esteemed friend a speedy and safe return to “God's Own Country.” Our Editor, with her family, has been enjoying a brief holiday at Putakanui. Our Dominion President joined them for a few days, and by swimming, boating, etc., tried to gather strength for the coming labours of Convention.

But our officers also did some work which it was too late to report to our N.Z. Evangelistic Superintendent. An open-air service is conducted every Sunday evening by the Presbyterians during the holiday season. Mrs Penman was asked to take the service on January 20th. The people sit in ranks on the grass, row above row on the hillside in a kind of natural amphitheatre, while the preacher stands at the foot. The sea gently murmuring on the strand, and the fishing boats anchored close by, transport one’s thoughts to Galilee, and till the mind and soul with thoughts of the (ireat Master, who preached on the shore of the sounding sea. The next Sunday, our President joined the Editor, and together they sang and talked about the “Wonderful Words of Life” to the large audience, who listened so attentively, and seemed to enjoy the women preachers. On a previous Sunday, our Editor took the pulpit at the Central Mission, and preached to the largest Methodist congregation in New Zealand, and the same evening, the National President had the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church at Ravensbourne, while th»* respective ministers were on holiday.