AUCKLAND CITY MISSION-MISS RYES ADDRESS

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2237, 21 September 1864, Page 5

AUCKLAND CITY MISSION-MISS RYES ADDRESS

Yi>uhd\.\ evening x sou il meeting of the piuiils, tLiiln'i-, and fi i, 11,11 1 , 1 ■* (if the lliihl'Cii dtlcmliiii; the ('icy Mission School, w is held in llio Sclim 1 house, D.uhaui iti Let r l lit. ,I'tuiul iiilp wa-. liiiniLioui anil l aspect ibl<'. lii the ui)a\o, liable absence of the lion William L'\>\ Colomil Vuolii), Uio ch.ui wns tikm by Mi (Jutiiim^hun, Supuuiteudeiit of the jMimioii. Aitoi tei mil dc\otioiid exei<_isCs, the CiiuttM \.?> made a few a >]iin>ii i ilu inlioilnctoiy obsei\ations sli'ing tlio übjei tot tin mcefciiiij, the lust tilidfc Ind I>cj hel I fm tlic [II cuts of the clul ilien, ami alluding to the ,ucecss which had attended the ni'Ssiou smoe its commencement. Mi. M vsox, col|ioit«ui to tlie Bililc Society, doli\,eied a lengthened addiess on tlio impoit.uice of the mission, .mil the nrccs'-ity which umsiul foi such an oi^ani/aliion in this city Tlie CiiiiitM vv then mtiodiiced lli^s Ryo to tlie meeting, focbn^ a'-siupd lint li< l ob&or\ationa would bo liiti ned to with delight by thosi 1 piesi-iit. MhS l!\i, nil iiMiii;, wa-i gieottd with l iphuo'is pliudit-s She s.inl she was not; aeuistomul to ■iddie-s ]iul>lil mieliiii^, but, fueling .i ilee,) mteicst in the niis^ion she fe t it to be hoi duty t > attend hln. h id lon<s bei n an .vhocito foi cini^icitmn to tin-. Gountiy but hci hcut was often suldcncd by uitncsbin^ the scenes ot diunkcnnes-. whkh mOLt the eye it e\eiy sti'|i in this city It had c.ui-ed hci ottcn to tkmk th a money v.as .i enisc to m my. hhe Unew tint mom > and othei cuthly nelics could not in ike men h.ipny , but s>'ie felt SLiioii'-ly ti it it u n w ibe ■mil n^ht to induce people to cpi'l,l itc It \\ is irtoil foi the \\ oiking clause-, to conic out to thi- colo'iy If the) only kept sloidy tliey must inipiiiv t'len coii'lition 'I ho^o ineetings ,\uoi 1,1 -cit he']) in fm tiler ing hci bcheme of cinigiation , and it w )iild h i\e been uugi.ittful onheiput not to be pic-ent, and give the mission hci co'iiitonanc". She c, ailil al« iys lceomniend joing p oj ile to no to this mw'-ioii scliool foi coun&el and lill|> m then tune ol dilhculty and di-.li ess It was the duty of i \ oi y well disposed jioison to fiuthei the object ot tin-, mission, foi, it adequately suppoite.l, it could not fill to be ,i gicat blcisini; to the people of Aucl.la.iul 1 1 mii a i;ici.t m.ittu to see such .i building as tlu- Ci y JM^sion School. She might mention, In Iho (Jh.aum m's encoungem lit, tint i ladj f i iciirl of hcis m 1 ondon li.xil done i sicit deal f 'i tlio Moikiiit; cl uses in that sjieat city " 15y hci elt'.it-., .an mstitaio had been o t ibh-hod f.n woikimj men, and was attended every m«ht by soino tw o Irmdied poisons t^he did not ■3 c why soiii-t'-mi; sinn' u --hou'd net 1 c established in Am kl iml It v ould b• a gieit blessing to tint class of p'lsons, and esp cilly young men who weio fai fiom home and lfr- n.lluci cos, she did not see why tins building should not become the centic of a building club foi wiking men, which, was much wanted, and a icid'u^ i 'Oiu foi woilangnien. What was the ieaE>oii,s.oinciiiy men frequented public housed

Was it their love of drink? No; she did not believe they loved dnuk in the abstiaet. They had no place where they could meet for intellectual improvement and rational enjoyment after the toils of the day. Such an institution was much required ; and not until something of tins kind was bupplied could they ex pect to gain them over ftom the public-] louse, wheie their time and n oney weie spent to then injiuy and the ilctumcnt of then families. llci fuend in London hul succeeded in getting in tlie pooiei classes lvchgious sei vices were liold eveiy Sunday and Wednesday, and in connection with the institution theie was a lagged suliool, conducted by the woi king men >Sho dul not see why the same thing could not be done in Auckland. She ineiely thiew out the hint foi the coiibideiation of those picscnt It afforded hei much pleasnie to see sommy patents pie&ent, and ,she lioped the ne\t meeting would be still moi e hugely attended, although she might not be tlioie to witness it. She sineeiely tnisted that Cod's blessing would lest upon the Auckland City Mission (Miss liyo ic-mmed hei seat amidst warm applau&c ) 'J'ho (Jir umriN then announced the houis at which tlio sci vices woe hold, and the tune foi imputing scculai and i elisions niSiti notion In con u«..u>u wiUi the Mission theie was a Savings Bank, li ict Society, and Lhildion's dome. 'Jliu Hon. Mi. Fo\, who had entcied the loom a fuw minutes pi oviously, made a few obseivations to the assemblage expiessivc of his mtei^st in the mission, and the necessity which existed for its opelalion in this city, uheio so much diunkennc-s, vice, and miMny existed, lie hoped that many wmiliir institutions would be laised to counteiact the e\ d liillucnoes by the humbler classes woio unliappily suuouii'led. lie apologised foi his inability to attend .md tiillil hi-> cnga^cment-. The annal of the Enghsli mail and otlici piessing bu--inoss had pi evented him. (Applause.) The meeting \\ as then dismissed with singing and piiyei. Miss T!yo left in company with tho lion. Mr. and Mis l'o\.