WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14515, 19 September 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME.

BAPTIST CHURCH MOVE. '

(From 'The Colonist," Sept. 15th.) The Nelson Baptist Church has given very freely of its manhood to our Emnire in connection with the great war. \ cry few of the early reinforcements left town without Baptist representatives in them. The.ehureh has always taken a keen interest in their welfare, it is looking forward to their homecoming after the war, and has decided to endeavour to show the "boys some proof of how their service to the Empire has been noted. At a large church meeting held this week it was unanimously and heartily decided—(l) "That this church.- relying o ;i God. endeavour to erect in the church a pine or^an ns an exnrestfon of our pralifu.de to t^od for ms manifold mercies to our Empire, m this great crisis, and of our appreciation of the-sendees rendered to tne cause of our Empire, humanity aTicl ricchreousness by those who left tins church to .serve in fhe present >;T™ w^- (2) That we aim at raising owrn a view-to attemptinc this. (3) That .we Ret apart a day in October to receive gifts o f thanksgiving for this I ryrpo™." It lias been suggested 'that it would o c a fitting thing to open this iirsran nud usp it, for the first'time in "nnnection with the final welcome of the boys. ' . I