Ormondville.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 November 1910, Page 13

Ormondville.

Vicar: Rev. M. CoekerilLß.A. The Missioner has come and gone ; the Mission brought with it a great uplifting 1 wave of religious life and fervour. After its passage will the tide of spiritual life return quite to itsjforiner level, or even to a lower ebb? We both hope not and believe not. Not all— it would be too much to look for— will have received any permanent benefit. But we are convinced there are many of those who attended throughout the Mission services ■who will, to whom that time will ever be one of blessed memory, as a period when they received an impulse onward and upward, whose influence, by God's grace, will never pass away. A' very good start has been made with a braiich of the Girls' Friendly Society, under the Secretaryship of Miss Alice Webb, who looks at the next meeting to see a good enrolment of provisional members and associates. We hope too, before next month, to* see a branch provisionally formed of the Church of England. Men's Society. Men interested are cordially invited to- communicate with Mr. McDougall, who has kindly consented at the invitation of the Vicar, to give this work his earnest care. Meetings for Bible study are now held weekly m Ormondville and Makotuku, and the attendances have been encouraging. But we hope to see the«e meetings steadily grow m numbers. The Vestry held their Quarterly Meeting on the 13th October. Some very important

matters were discussed. The necessity, of considerable outlay m various directions was pointed out. In view of the large amount of revenue lost from the very many wet Sundays m this Parish, it waR felt that a determined attempt must be made to induce a much more extended use of the envelope system, and the members of the Vestry resolved, each of them, as a beginning, to induce two persons to adopt the system. It is the best mode of supporting the Church systematically and on principle. If every adult parishioner gave 6d. or Is. a week, independent of the weather or his attendance at Church, there would b« revenue enough to accomplish all the objects waiting attention that the Vestry have m view as for instance the purchase of a paddock for the Clergyman's horse, repairs to the Vicifrage, erection of Sunday School at Makotnku, painting of Church At Ormoudville, lining of Sunday School there, etc.