SOCIAL SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19611, 6 May 1929, Page 13

SOCIAL SERVICE.

PRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION. The Presbyterian Social Service Association and the part it plays in the community was discussed by the Rev. Frank Rule yesterday morning at a service ut St. Paul's Church, which was attended by members of the Masonic Order.

Mr Rule, who was the originator of the Association in Canterbury twenty years ago, spoke of failure, illustrating his remarks by the story from St. Luke's Gospel, where the disciples as fishermen "had toiled all night but had caught nothing." "Is there an experience more disconcerting for mortal man than failure?" asked the preacher. To give every possible bit of thought, energy, and intelligence to a task and then to fail was not a pleasant prospect. But it did one good to fail, because it was only then that one realised he was mortal. Indeed, failure was one of man's commonest experiencDS'. When the family circle failed, then it was that the social service got its chance. During the last twenty years in Christchurch, it had rescued many orphan children from a miserable existence, and had brought fchem up fo live useful and Christian lives. Mr Rule reminded the congregation that this could not be done without money. The Association had established two homes in Christchurch and one in Timaru, and the work carried on there was worthy of all the help they could give it. A retiring collection wna tafcvn up for the funds of the Association. I