FLASHLIGHTS

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 7, 1 August 1947, Page 2

FLASHLIGHTS

Speaking at the Auckland Union July meeting, Captain and Mrs. McCallum told of their work during the recent “Commando” raid on Wellington hotels. They explained that the twofold purpose was to find the reasons for non-attendance at Church, and also to turn the hearts of the people to God. Mrs. McCallum and her lady friends conducted a singing campaign. The “raid" was considered a great success. With the personal messages and the sweet singing, better desires were started in the hearts of the listeners and definite cases of conversion were recorded.

At the June meeting of Hastings Union, Mrs. Lewis spoke on the 'White Ribbon.” Among other things, she said:—

"The ‘White Ribbon’ is for our use. Make it ours. Do not glance through it while drinking a cup of tea. Rather study the articles, and become able to pass on the facts. Get other people interested in it to swell the number of its subscribers. When sending reports, articles and on one side of the paper only.

Speaking at the Hastings Union meeting in May, the Rev. Mr. Cattanach took for his subject, “The Church in Russia.” He said that Religion and Communism could not go hand in hand, but believed the Church had become popular of late years because we had heard of it behind the army and the government. Russia was so vast, and so different, that we could not compare our Church and religion with theirs. There was no religious instruction for the young. The homes which should be a centre of religious instruction, had no home life as wc know it.

At the Sydenham Union’s July meeting, Mrs. H. Graham gave a very helpful address, reminding her hearers that God Can, God Is, God Hears, God Has, God Doe«. The speaker endeavoured to show that in our time of need our Father is ever ready to help in a personal way, if we only have faith in His pow*er to do so; that very often our work in the Temperance Cause does not produce the results we desire, simply because we are not willing to avail ourselves of God’s promises —and if we can only realise that God’s care is always round about us, protecting us day, we shall be able to go forward bravely, facing whatever the future may hold.