Havelock North.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 December 1910, Page 15

Havelock North.

Vicar: Rev. A. F. Gardiner. Curate : Rev. The Vicar feels sure many m Havelock will be glad of a printed copy of our Missioner's letter : — "TO THE CHURCH PEOPLE OF HAVELOCK. "November 8, 1910. " My Dear Friends, " I hope that you will let me ask of you a great favour. lam going to preach a Mission m my own Parish of S. John's, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on my return. lam very anxious to pass on to my own dear people at Home something more than a mere description of God's wonderful work here m the N.Z. Mission. I want to carry them something of the spirit and power that has swept over us here with such marvellous results. They have prayed for you, now I ask you to pray for them m their Mission, and I know that you will. If it is not too much to ask, I should ask you to use the Prayer which lam sending daily. In this way the atmosphere of Prayer, without which no Mission can be a real blessing, will be there with us, as it has been with you. " I shall long treasure the memory of the Havelock Mission. None that I have since taken has done anything to efface it. The intensity of our Prayer, and the realisation of the Divine Presence m the Blessed Sacrament, and m the silence of the wordless Prayer Meeting, are. permanent memories. Now I send you a message of hop* and encouragement. Do not lose heart at failures, your own or other people's, to maintain all that the Mission led you to resolve upon. No one who does not lose hope can ever lose his soul. In the end, he who fights on must win. • We fall to. rise, are baffled, to fight better.'

" And with you, and within you, through: the mystery of the Blessed Sacrament is the power of the All-Conquering Life' of our Lord.* " Qod bless you and keep you. " Yours affectionately, ' "Cyril Hepher."