WALKER STREET MISSION HALL.

Evening Star, Issue 7308, 5 September 1887, Page 3

WALKER STREET MISSION HALL.

For some time funds have been in process of collection for the erection of this oftou-spokou-of mission hall. A sum of about LSO has been got together by means of lectures which the Rev. Mr Waddell has been giving to tho public and to his Ladies’ Literary Glass. By invitation to the Presbytery tho Presbyterian churches in and about Dunedin aio to giyu u collection, indeed one church has already given tie collection, and a good sum wnl be available for the misaau. It is believed that tho combined forces just named may ultimately be able to account for posiibly 1100. The modest sum of L 250 is required, and it is hoped that tho sale cf wqik which is to take place in St. Andrews Half, Waluer street, this week, and which His Worship will open to morrow at 3 p.m., will provide at least the most of tho remaining Ll5O. Contributions have come in not only from St. Andrew’s Church people (whose ladies are managing the affair), but from numerous sympathisers in different parts of the City, province, and also from Australia. If tho sale of work is e'-en fairly successful—and the articles to bo sold aro being marked very low—the Mission Hall may be erected by the end of tho year. If present negotiations come off, it will be planted right in the middle of what lias been known as the Walker street “Devil’s Half-acre,” and it will be used in a variety of ways. Sunday school will bo held in the afternoon (the Mission school now numbers some seventy scholars, and is temporarily in occupation of a portion of St. Andrew’s Hall); a regular meeting will be held on Sunday evenings; the week nights will be filled up by nightclasses of a mission kind,; occasional entertainments of an unostentatious nature will he given, and generally it will be the aim to use tbo ball on Sundays and week days in an intelligent way, for the spiritual, msnfa 1 , and physical benefit of those for whom it is to bo built. The idea is that no particular religious creed should be taught, so that Christians of every shade of opinion may join in tho work without ream ration or restraint.