THE RESCUE LOCGE.

Evening Star, Issue 14117, 21 July 1909, Page 3

THE RESCUE LOCGE.

I lie Rescue Lodgy of Good Templars celebrated their fiftieth anniversary by a successful concert in the Oddfellows' Hall Kensington, bust night. The hall was. filled to overflowing, liro. Hilton, P.C.T., presided, and remarked that the Good Templar Order was the largest temperance organisation in the world. The membership amounted to 500.000 members and 200.000 jnvenilcs. ami that 3.000.000 people were initiated before its altars, and thus received a jjoixl grounding in Temperance. The le'V. Knowles Smith, lately trom Sootlai::!.. expressed his pleasure in addressing a (loot! Templar meeting in Dun.'din. as lie had been an abstainer all his life, and noticed with gratitude the advanced stage of temperance work compared with the Old Country. He urged the workeis to further effort to educate the jvople on temperance matters. It was all right to amr.-e and entertain, but the main objeot was to educate. They should start with the children in their lodges, and then follow them to their s-chools, and keep the education work up till everyone is convinced of the value of total abstinence and Prohibition. Then New Zealand would advance to further progress, and serve as u beacon light to others in far-off lands, urging them to greater effort to benefit mankind.

The following prograinme was carried out :—Pianoforte solo, Miss rainier; song, Mr P. Mackenzie; recitation. Mis Forrester (encored); song, Mr Stubbs ; song. Mr Scott; recitation, Miss Kernohan (encored) ; song, Mrs Gilmour (encored) ; pianoforte duet. Miss Weir and Mt O. Firkin ; duet, Miss Passmore and Mrs Gilmour ; song, Mks Wilson (encored) ; recitation, Mif-is M. Thomas; song. Miss Hodge; song, Mr Rroadley (encored) ; pianoforte solo, Miss Hobson.