SALVATION ARMY

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY

SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY

Under ideal conditions yesterday the Salvation Army conducted the Sunday School anniversary. Large audineces congregated to listen to the singing of the children, who have been carefully trained by the Young People’s Sergeant Major, Mrs Best. Major Powick, who has the oversight of the young people's work for Canterbury and Westland, came from Christchurch to conduct the special gatherings. The Major is a man of long years of experience of juvenile work, and is a splendid leader of young people. The Major is also the divisional organiser of the Life Saving Scouts and Guards organisations of the Army, and in addition to his ranks in the Army the Major is also a member of the Royal Life Saving Society, holding the silver medallion of that society, also the teachers’ and other certificates.

The programmes given by the children yesterday afternoon and evening gave evident pleasure to the audiences, two of the united songs became very popular—“ Childhood” and “Hark, hark, hark, we’re coming on a pace.” A pleasing duet, “Nature's Beauties,” was soulfully rendered by two of the girls. In the afternoon the Primary Department, and members of the Cradle’Roll were presented with their prizes. Much merriment was caused by the way the respective young hopefuls conducted themselves, and their quaint expressions of thanks to the Major, who presented the prizes. During the afternoon a transfer enrolment service was held, when two of the elder scholars of the Sunday School were transferred to the Senior Soldiers’ Roll, after signing the “Articles of War” and being duly enrolled under the Army Flag.

Considerable interest was stirred in the evening, when the “Life Saving Guards,” the newly-formed troop of the Grey Corp, paraded for the first time in their very neat and serviceable new uniforms of greyjand red. The L. S. Guards marched down Guinness Street in time to join the march of the Band in its return to the Hall, where a short church parade service was held.

The aniversary service in the evening was rendered chiefly by the senior section of the Sunday School, when again the company singing proved to be very popular. A duet was also rendered by two young people, Misses Elsie Carter and Ethel Roberts, a solo by Corps Cadet Eva Ackland, and a recitation by L.S. Guard Mavis Carruthers. The Y.P.S.M. Mi s Best gave an address during the evening. Major Powick gave a Scripture reading and an address on “Son, Remember,” drawing an apt illustration .of the necessity of young people putting into their memories those things which would prove to be a museum of “pleasant keepsakes” instead of those things which destroy their minds. To-night in the Army Hall the young people wiil again take the platform and give a splendid concert, when the prizes for the senior section of the school will be distributed. All lovers of young people’s work should see this.