SOCIAL AT Y.M.C.A. ROOMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12472, 1 October 1902, Page 3

SOCIAL AT Y.M.C.A. ROOMS.

The members of the Harrier Club and the Literary Society connected with the Y.M-.C.A. brought the 1902 season to a close last evening with a social, held in the association's halL The members attended in fairly large numbers, and the gathering was increased by the presence of numerous relations and friends. Mr N. Paterson occupied, the chair, and, after the wellknown and much-beloved " Glory Song," as it was termed, had been sung and the Rev. Curzon-Siggers had engaged in prayer, the chairman took the opportunity of welcoming the visitors to their little social, and of giving them a little information concerning the harriers and the Literary Society, institutions very divergent in character, but both enabling the members to do that which was profitable to them. He expressed his regret a.t the unavoidable absence of Mr G. M. Thomson, (president of the association), who was to have occupied the chair. The association had been exceedingly fortunaie in its three principal officers—Mr G. M. Thomson, the Rev. CurzonSiggers, and Mr R. Chisholm. All these gentlemen had taken a very hearty interest m the work of the association.—(Applause.) He was very pleased that the Rev. Curzon-Siggers was there that night.—(Applause.) Mr Chisholm, with Mr Thomson, had been unable to attend. Mr G. F. Mirams then sang " The Soul's awakening" and Mr P. C. Every recited " The Three Bidders." The Rev. Curzon-Siggers, having to leave, was called on by the chairman to make a few remarks before his departure. After a- humorous reference to the impromptu speech he had been asked to make, Mr CurzonSiggers expressed his satisfaction that some of the members of the association had entered for the impromptu speaking competitions to be held in the city shortly, thus showing that the Christian young men of Dunedin could speak when required. He was also glad to say how much he appreciated his connection with the association. It was row, and would be in the future still mors so, a lesson how to start and carry on a society. Of the Dunedin Y.M.C.A. it might be said that it existed by virtue of faith and care —faith in that they believed they were doing God's work in starting the association, and care.in that the members had been content with a small beginning and had gone on steadily step by step until they had got their present • splendid rooms. The association had also displayed " sanctified common sense" in the way of starting a harrier club. It was unfortunately often said' that Christian young men were not manly. It was one of those libels the only way to upset which was for an association, of that, kind to show • by object lesson that its members could be Christians and at the same time enter into pleasures and enjoy them more because they were Christians. —(Applause.) There was infinitely more enjoyment to be derived from those things which were religious than those which were antireligious.—(Applause*) Those pleasures which

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