MISS JENNIE STREET IS GIVEN A WELCOME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 12

MISS JENNIE STREET IS GIVEN A WELCOME.

An official welcome to Christchurch was extended to Miss Jennie M. Street, of London, who is engaged on a tour of New Zealand in the interests of the Christian Endeavour movement, in the Trinity Congregational Church on Saturday evening. There was a good attendance, representatives from various churches being present. The Rev D Gardner Miller presided.

Mr Miller briefly welcomed the visitor, expressing his pleasure in being able to extend the hand of friendship to so distinguished a Christian worker He hoped that Miss Street’s visit to Christchurch would prove beneficent to the cause which she represented. On behalf of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church congregation and the Baptist community generally, the Rev J. Robertson, president of the Canterbury Baptist Union Auxiliary, said that he had great pleasure in joining in the welcome to Miss Street. He had been associated with the Christian Endeavour movement in his early youth, and had made his first prayer in public at a meeting carried on under its auspices. Mr Robertson spoke of the pro gress that was being made of the movement and of the important part that was being played in the advance of civilisation by its leading supporters.

“ The visit of Miss Street to Christchurch has been eagerly awaited.” said Mrs T. E. Taylor, Dominion president of the W.C.T.U., in welcoming Miss Street on behalf of the Christchurch members of the body she represented. Miss Street was one of them, she continued, since she was a “White Ribboner ” and wore the badge of the union. It was a great privilege to New Zealanders to have Miss Street with them for a short while to lend her able assistance in spiritual uplift work at a time when the youth of this Dominion was paying too much attention to the material side of life and neglecting the spiritual. The Rev A. Scotter, Cambridge Terrace Methodist Church, and Pastor J. Crawford, Church of Christ, also added words of welcome.

Miss Street was presented with a bouquet from the Junior Endeavour Circle of the Madras Street Methodist Church.

The Mayor, the Rev J. K. Archer, who arrived late owing to a dela3* through another engagement, extended to Miss Street a hearty welcome to Christchurch and Canterbury. He expressed the hope that she would enjoy her stay here and that at the same time much good would be derived from her visit. Miss Street had done a great deal for Christian Endeavour in England. and he was sure that her visit to Christchurch would prove inspiring to the supporters of the movement in this city. In returning thank? Miss Street ex-

pressed her pleasure in meeting the people of Christchurch. From Christchurch in England she had brought the greetings of the Christian Endeavour societies to those of Christchurch in New Zealand. The greetings which Miss Street delivered to the Christchurch societies took the form of flags from Southern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the United States. Miss Street spoke of the great work that was being done by the Christian Endeavour movement throughout the world and outlined its possibilities in a young country such as New Zealand, where the teaching of one was equivalent to teaching 100 in England. She concluded by expressing her sincere thanks for the kind welcome which had been extended to her.