V.M.C.A. at Gisborne
The centenary of the V.M.C. A., which occurred recently was the occasion of an attendance of representatives of the Gisborhe V.M.C.A. at Holy Trinity Church, when the vicar, Canon A. F. Hall, briefly traced the history of the movement m Gisborne. When the local branch was founded 32 years ago, it was purely a religious undertaking, and fizzled out, later being reorganised on the physical side as a gymnasium to give its members healthy minds and healthy bodies. The aim, however, was bigger than that, and both, the physical and the spiritual were "•stressed. "It is not a sect m itself," Canon Hall said, "nor is it m competition with any church, ' but it is rather: a gathering point and distributing centre for every church. That is the ideal which it is out to realise and which it will attain.'
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 7, 1 September 1944, Page 10
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