SALVATION ARMY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 8

SALVATION ARMY

DOMINION CONGRESS

The Dominion Territorial Congress of the Salvation Army will open in Wellington tomorrow and will continue until Tuesday.

Commissioner and Mrs. J. Hay, former territorial leaders of the Army in New Zealand, will conduct the congress, supported by Lieut-Commis-sioner and Mrs. F. H. Adams, the present territorial leaders. Lieut-Colonel G. W. P. Grattan, chief secretary, and Mrs. Grattan, and the headquarters and divisional staffs. About five hundred officer delegates from all parts of the Dominion will attend the congress. The first meeting will be for women, the speaker being Mrs. Commissioner Hay. This will be held in the Vivian Street Citadel, at 2.30 p.m., tomorrow. A public welcome will be accorded the congress leaders in the Citadel at night. This meeting will also be marked by the farewell of Adjutant Ivy Williams for service in South Africa. Officers' councils will be held on Friday, and at night a three-hour prayer meeting will be held in the Citadel. On Saturday the veterans of the Army, including the retired officers, will meet at the Citadel in the afternoon. A feature of this gathering will be the playing of "Old-Time Melodies" by the Wellington South Band. At night a Young People's Demonstration will be given in the Town Hall when a programme of drills, dialogues, recitations, and tableaux will be presented by the young folk of the various corps in and around Wellington. The Raetihi Guards will give an item.

On Sunday three meetings will be held in the Town Hall. In the afternoon the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) will preside, and Commissioner Hay will lecture on "The Salvation Army as an Empire Force." A short musical festival wi}l be giv.en by the bands and songsters.

On Monday night a musical festival will be given in the Citadel by selected bands and songsters, a programme of a very high order being arranged.

The congress will conclude on Tuesday night with a solemn assembly in the Citadel conducted by Commissioner Hay, the main object of which will be to offer prayers for the people, to make confession of sin, and to renew covenants for sanctified service.