ITS RESULTS AND ITS POSSIBILITIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13880, 3 November 1910, Page 7

ITS RESULTS AND ITS POSSIBILITIES.

I A MISSION Ell 'S IMPRKmIONcS. I In the majority of the city and ; suburban chut elu-s liv- general Chun-di Mission came to a funclu'-iou list n.ght, ; itr.d thanksgiving servltcs wetc- iield. lt is generally Mjuc-e-.iett by Churchmen that tlio mission has by.en •.'.leeci.s-.r.'l, land v.'ill have e.ll appieeitiole ciioet : upon the- spiritual hie* "of the e-:>*ui;:u- ---• liny, iio'.v t;*.e n.i .si;iiters tin: v;'-••. 1 '•'■-.- looic upon t'ue init.;..jii and tlio v.oii*; it Iki.s A.-.ir.v, a it'iMV.-uii.uiw oi 'iA'.e . I'rcs*. ' sought to ast-t.-rtiiiu last iu.-;ht , trom the llev. J. C l-'itzgeraid. i "Peuple a. s k ;;k .-.hi';her tiie mission I has bteii v. sueee.-.-, t.n-i they them- ' selves say it has been." Mr f itzger.i'd said in tiie course of iii*- sermon at St. Luke's h-.-t night. "1 do not know whether it ha. been,"' he proceeded. : "hi :-ome p!.;.es where missions have appeared to Le mo.-i enthusiastic they havo led to nothing: on the other lie.jvi, v.lure a quiet ;o!t oi work ha*-- !.*•■• J' done, there has be-on a grt.it work accomplished. Tiioroiorc I give it up: it is quite impossible to uJIA' i Alter the service IM:* Fitzgerald, in ! response to the re' oner's re-quest .!•"" •lurtner opinions regarding the mission, • said:— "iVc- cannot be too grauUul to tiie Press for the manner iv which it ■ has reported tho mission. . . . The re- ! .spouse hits been juo.it wonderful, and ! amongst the men, especially iv the j CaUic-ural wirvic-is. Tii ere have been ' vv(juoertui congregations; it is quite tho best mission so fr.r; cadi mi.v-iou has gained strength, and to ir.o this is ' quite tiie best. I'kuse i-ay something ■on the ijuo-t:<;ii of purity, 'the men are ' very anxious that there should bo a 'movement for purity-—several men have spoken to mc about it. . . . At lca-st twenty peoplo have told mc tonight" what a glorious mission it has been .Speaking generally, and not of tiie mission m any particular parish, I think the men have t-'.ken it more emotionally than , the women. There have been more men weeping for their sins and troubles than I women. . . . The Cathedral services havo really been a great value. Only ' yctterd-*y' a man, over I'u'ty years of ! age, ca'ue to mc and told mo that his 1 ii'tc had simply been turned right '■ round, and that he had nover had such ian experience before.''

| "Will tiie results be permanent?" 1 tho reporter asked. | "I think they must be," Mr Fitzi gerald replied. "It will depend, in a i great measure, on tho work that goes | tin afterwards. . . . There has been : most wonderful unity in the work; all the schools have united to work as one; i there has been really no bitter opposi- ! tion."

i Then, as the reporter wa.s taking his j leave, the missioner said: "You will say i how much we appreciate tho way the mission has been reported?"