HELPING HAND MISSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11783, 12 October 1901, Page 3

HELPING HAND MISSION.

The Helping Hand Mission will celebrate their sixteenth anniversary in the Choral Hall to-morrow. In the forenoon the Rev. S. Griffith will conduct the service ; in the afternoon, tho Rev. Hugh Kelly; and in the evening the Rev. 0. C. Harrison. Special hymns will be sung by the scholars. The solos and duets are a feature of the services, and the singers will be assisted by a large orchestra. On Monday evening the annual reunion will take place in the Choral Hall, when Mr. A. U. Caughey will preside. There ■will: be special music and an address by the Rev. 0. H. Garland. From the yearly reports just issued we learn that this mission (the Rev. O. 0. Harrison, missioner) is of a most catholic character, and has a variety of agencies at work, including evangelistic services, Sunday-school, Christian Endeavour Society, outdoor meetings, temperance, benevolent, and social works, visiting, musical department, and a. tent mission. The Sunday-school lias 25 teachers and 235 scholars, and the offerings of the congregations have totalled £255. For foreign missions (the young people support two native Chinese and one Maori agent) and home missions they have given £36. From retiring collections in various circuits, as recommended by tho Wesleyan Synod, the mission received £38. The conference franked the sale of certain church property, which realised £400. It is intended to use this for the residence of the missioner, and thus save £50 to the mission fund. The legacy of £500 to the mission, without the slightest stipulation, by the late Mr. Wm, Arrowsmith, of Waiuku, has been funded, and will be \ised for the consolidation and furtherance of the mission as soon as a. comprehensive scheme can be decided upon. The debt on the working account at the last anniversary was £50. It will be nect<ssary to raise at least £100 by the present anniversary effort to wipe out this debt and put the workers at their ease in facing the coming year. Sister Kenneth, in her social work, has expended £92 odd in clothing, rent, and lodging, food, medicine and treatment, firing, etc.