HELPING HAND MISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 3

HELPING HAND MISSION.

ANNUAL MEETING. The first annual meeting of the Helping Hand Mission was held in the Mission's room, Taraifeki-street, last evening. This movement was inaugurated with the object of extending a hand to the poor and helpless, and relies entirely upon voluntary gifts. There is no official constitution, nor officials, except the superintendent (Mr. L. O. Stanton), who does not receive a settled -salary. The power of faith was a point emphasised in the superintendent's annual report, which staled that the total moneys in hand for the year were jbJ.54 0s 9d, and the expenditure made up in various forms of relief, etc., £154 0s 9d; the liabilities were nil, while afesets of furniture worth £7 10s were in hand to the credit of the mission The Eev. C. E. Porter delivered an evangelical address on the power of religion m daily life, and the obligation of Christian people to see that these islands, when the future «nay see instead of one million, six millions of people, do -not reproduce the sins and failures of the older land. All commonweal being founded on the individual, it was in The formation of the individual character that the future k>y hidden for good or for evil. 'Hie meoting closed with short speeches by some of the workers.