WELCOME SOCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 7

WELCOME SOCIAL

A pleasant social gathering was held in the Hanover Street Baptist school room last evening, when a welcome was accorded to Nurse Livingston, who returned recently from Chandpur, Eastern Bengal, and also to Mr and Mrs \V. J. Bardsley, who iiave returned from a trip to Europe and America. Rev. E. S. Tuckwell, 8.A., presided, and cordially welcomed the guests of the evening. Nurse Livingston gave a graphic account of her work during the past live years at the Chandpur Mission Hospital, the only hospital in which women are treated in a population of several millions. She urged the tremendous need for increased accommodation for this merciful ministry. , Mr Bardsley recounted some of ids exporicnefes in England and New York, and deeply interested his hearers by the impressions he had formed of the religious and social activities of the churches he had visited and the organisations with which he had become familiar. He had been privileged to attend a great garden party at Buckingham Palace, and had formed a high opinion of the fine moral’ influence exercised by the King and Queen. He had visited the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, where Uie nameless soldier lay among the most illustrious persons whom all England had honoured. In New York he had walked over vaults containing nine hundred million pounds’ worth of gold, yet had seen an appalling amount of poverty and industrial d.stress. He had attended the great church of which the Rev. H. Emerson Fordrick is the minister, and marvelled at its farreaching activities. He had visited t» Bowery Mission, founded by Jerry Macauly. The chairman thanked the guests for their instructive and cptertaiumg fldekeeses*