CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 6

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR.

> ANNUA! CONVENTION: ; ' 1 The closing sittings of the annual, con-, vention of tho Wellington Provincial. Christian Endeavour Union were . held yesterday. At the afternoon meeting, in the Tarnnaki Street Schoolroom, Mr. G. J. Clarke read a"paper,on "The Participation Clause of our Pledge." The evening meeting was held in tho Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church. Tho retiring president (Eev. T. Keith Ewen)delivered' an address, and inducted the new president (the Eev. P. Hutson, of Brooklyn). . Tho new.'.presidfint, in . this , course, of his address, said that the Christian: Endeavour movementiiwasvhot iflourishihgV.'hbw..'! as much 'as■ it>had'been. 'The: Bible .Class, movement had come along and set it'back. The modern 1 Bible Class was 1 really a mutual \ improvement society, where the young people of the church, converted or ..unconverted, met together to talk about the Bible, or George Eliot, or- Shakespeare, or the next. football match. Tho Bible Class did not emphasise work for Jesus; it was a sort of go-as-you-please society. The Christian Endeavour. Society was different, and he thought it was now coming to. tho front again.. Miss Henry, of the China Inland Mission, gave ,an interesting address,. in' which she clearly outlined the wonderful development known as the awakening of China, alluding to the popularising of Western learning, the . great. industrial and military efforts, the birth of' . the. press, the . anti-footbinding movement, and the Chinese Government's antiopjnm policy. Good as civilisation was, the speaker urged, the Christian gospel was urgently needed to replace 'Confucianism, laoism, and Buddhism—religions of idolatry and fear. "While they, rendered thanks to God for the 250,000 Chinese Christians, for the "257,000 boys and girls in -the mission schools,, for the', tens of.. thousands ■ of■ catechumens : who .were receiving'instruction,.they could not foTget that a million Chinese were dying every month without God. No fewer, than 1557 walled cities .out of 2033 were without a resident missionary. There, were thousands of large cities, and tens of thousands of towns and villages that had never had the foot of a missionary set within them. Yet there' was' no' hindrance to missionary effort in most of those places, if only the Church'would do its duty. The _ Missionary Conference' at Shanghai had issned an appeal for a great.effort to Christianise China by theend of the present- centnry. If the work were not done while China was making herself a modern civilised power, there would be a day of reckoning for the nations. ' The cwrventaon concluded with the administration of the Sacrament.

Messrs. Jame3 and Gillman, Hawora, taw for exchange 1000 acres, of grazing oountry, near Cambridge, Waikato. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. hase several important announcements' in; our auction columns with regard to coming Bales to bo held by them. On Monday next, at 2 p.m., at their rooms, they are holding a sale of valuable household furniture' including a- piano by R. Wesel and Son, English oak sideboard, Chesterfield couch, extension dining table, Brussels carnet! bedroom furmture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and sundries. The furniture will be on view on Monday morning. On Wednesday next, at 1.30 p.m., at the residence, No. 49 Thompson Street, the firm, under instructions from Miss Rutherford, arj selling her high-class household furniture. The whole of tho contents of tho house will bo sold, and amongst the . articles to bo_ submitted, aro mahogany sideboard and Chiffonier, bookcase, mottled walnut tables, engravings and oil paintings, best crystal and electroplate, valuable old china, bedroom furniture, kitchen utensils, and sundries. This furniture will be on view on Tuesday afternoon, and ,on moraine of sale. Also, on Wednesday noxt. at 2.30 p.m., at tlicir rooms, they are soiling a property 0f47.3 perches at Rosa Bay, with I a four-roomed dwellinghouse, also bakehouse, oven, and fittings. Messrs. Hamerton, Andrew, and Webb are the solicitors. Oo Tuesday, March 22, at- Upper. Hutt, the firm will sell a dairy farm at Mungaroa, together with a herd of dairy cattle. Information may be obtained from . Messrs. Hcrdman and Kirkcaldie, solicitors, or the auctioneers. Tho firm, on Wednesday, March 30, at their rooms, are submitting a property with five-romerl house, situated on the Hutt Road, Pctone. Hie Y.M.C.A. announce that their c.vmnasium classes will Commence on Monday, April 4. The gymnasium is ono of the most, perfectly equipped in iiic Dominion: There will jbe classes for young'and old, and a.special one for business men in the afternoons. A handsome prospectus has boon published, and can he hci/i oil aooli. oaitoa at the office of ttut Y.MJ A.