ANGLICAN MISSION OF HELP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 5

ANGLICAN MISSION OF HELP.

WELLINGTON PREPARATIONS. Arrangements in the Wellington and suburban parishes in connection with the Church of England Mission of Help are now well in hand. A meeting of the general committee was held last evening, when reports were received from the Stewards', the Advertising, and the Town Hall pommittees. After considerable discussion, it was decided to arrange for the Central Mission Band to play the procession from the Queen's statue to the Town Hall on Sunday, 25th September, the opening day. Several suggestions re advertising were considered and approved. On the 24th inst thero is to be a public meeting of all the church workers, in the Taranaki-street (St. Peter's) Mission Hall, when Canon Stewart will deliver an address. The Mission, which is exciting much attention at the present time in Auckland, starts in Wellington on the Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, to bo followed each day for the following week by public meetings for men only, from 12.25 p.m. to 12.50 p.m., and from 1.25 p.m. to 1.50 p.m., in the Town Hall. Simultaneous with these gatherings meetings for women only are to be conducted in another hall to bo arranged for. Then in the evenings, until the end of the week, big mass meetings open to everybody will be held. The Mission proper will then be commenced in all the churches throughout the district. Meetings of lady workers are convened for this afternoon and the following Saturday, for the purpose of enrollincr 100 ladies to distribute mission notices in tho various shops, workshops, and warehouses throughout the city. One hundred men are also required for a similar purpose. On Friday next a general committee meeting is to take place, to make final arrangements. Following on the Town Hall mission meetings, services will be held continuously in the churches in the Wellington district from Saturday, Ist October, to Monday, 10th October. The Town Hall services will be conducted by Canon E. H. Stewart, and Bishop Julius, of Christchurch. Canon Stewart is stated to be a particularly brilliant speaker, having for the last 25 years presided every day over services attended by all classes — merchants, stockbrokers, and others — at Bow Church, Cheapside, London. The pecuniary aspect of the mission, the committee states, is being left altogether out of the question, so far as the meetings are concerned. No collections will be taken up at any of the meetings, and there is to be "no frill" about the methods of procedure. Popular hymns havo been arranged for.