FATHER HAYS'S MISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 59, 7 September 1905, Page 6

FATHER HAYS'S MISSION.

[BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.! GREYTOWN NORTH, This Day. Father Hays, the apostle of temperance, addressed a representative demonstration in the Palace Hall last evening, the Mayor of Greytown presiding. Mr. Heagerty, representing the Roman Catholic Church, proposed a motion expression unbounded gratification of the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Protestant people throughout New Zealand at the magnificent success of Father Hays's work, and high appreciation of the fact that 25,863 people had become his disciples, pledged by practice of tern- j perance, thrift, and industry to become more practical Christians and more patriotic citizens. The Rev. Mr. Smith, on behalf of the Church of England, and the Rev. James Brown, for all the Protestant Churches, seconded and supported the resolution. Father Hays expressed his gratitude for the magnificent receptions and unbounded kindness received throughout the colony. The most valuable and unique part of his work in New Zealand was, he said, the bringing of all creeds together on .a common platform against a national cvil — drunkenness, thereby destroying the narrow-minded religious bigotry, and bringing men to a fuller recognition of the brotherhood of man. Father -Hays left this afternoon for Wellington.