YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12084, 13 August 1917, Page 6

YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES.

ANNUAL ADDRESS AT OXFORD

TERRACK CIU'RCH

Tho annual services for young people were hold at the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church yesterday, the Rev J. J. North officiating at both the morning and evening services. The annual Sunday School parade took place at II a.m., and at G.HO p.m. 1 the service was for the girls' hockey club, gymnasium class and Boy Scouts, who met at the church.

Mr North said that all were interested in tho work of the young people. Through the sports clubs and Boy Scouts' movement it was hoped that healthy bodies would be built up, and pure minds, so that- when adult years wore leached the gieat problems which faced the coming generation of men and women would be; grappled iirinly. It would require strong bodies, clear minds and pure-living human beings to put the world straight after the close, oi' tlio war. It was to ! tho young people that the wo rid nuusl look for regeneration.

The .subject of the evening discourse was from I. Corinthians, -<vi, 13, '• Quit ye like men." In a simpler form the text, said Mr North, was " Be Manly." and the phrase applied to man and woman. The trend of the address was in regard to the establishment of x character for the. fulfilment of tlio Divine Will. Mr North spoke of the glories of the young body and also of its perils, emphasising the point that God demanded the development of healthy bodies and pure minds that the full powers of manhood and womanhood may be exercised in world progress. Me urged the young people to face the world and its troubles bravely, to fight against difficulties, and never to nurse despair. Mr North referred to the great characters of Captain Scott, David Livingstone, and others and urged all young people, to mould their lives on the manly qualities exhibited by those men. He reminded them that the body was Clod's handicraft, and that the Almighty exacted a terrible revenge for its misuse. Mr North made an appeal to all young people to bear in m:nd life's real business and the great tasks that had to be tackled.