YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Volume 13694, Issue 13694, 10 September 1906, Page 7

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

The strangers' social tea at the Y.M.C.A. yesterday had tb 0 average attendant of friends and visitors. Mr E. Aslin was in -the cliair, and welcomed strangers to the association. The Chairman, when speaking later, said it happened to bo his birthday, and that was tho reason ho had chcsen as his subject " Leaves (rom My Diary." The address proved to bo practical and helpful. Mr Ueorge Thomson was Soloist' foi* tlie evening, and his item was very much appreciated by ail. Tho quartet by Mes-rs W. A. Hamblett, G. Armour, Roy Gordon, and J. M'l'ar'a.no was well .received. " Men and tho liible" was the "subject which Mr lit",' Johnson chose for his address at tl» 4.1| men's meeting. His talk was most interesting, chiefly because, he illustrated Siis icmnrks from' the work of tha Tlobart Association, which he had been a member of for some vchrs. His account of one Tillage of 550 persons, which had two churches, one having an average attendance of five, tho other of seven, was rather startling. But 6omo 20 young men, with tho Bible, had visited this village, and although they were greeted wilh'discourag ; ing words, and found the young men interested more in gambling than anything else, yet before their visit was over, llio whole village had tx'on stirred to &gain give tho Bible the place it deserved.