PRESIDENT’S LETTER

White Ribbon, Volume 48, Issue 1, 1 January 1942, Page 4

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

My dear Friends, — For a new year's greeting I cannot send you a better message than this \erse which was sent to me by a most cheerful though greatly afflicted friend: “May God Keep You. May God bless you, when all your days are grey ones, And help you when you’re anxious and alone. May Gpd guide you when the path of life is hidden, And give you courage that is greater tlnn your own. May God keep you when frightening things surround you, And hold you very close no matter what befall; May He bring you, when troubled days are over, The Peace that has no ending, and the Love that waits for all” Again 1 would say: Put out your hand in the darkness and take hold of the hand of God. What greater security than to be held by the hand of God! Wherever your loved ones are, they cannot be where God is not able to keep them. They cannot drift beyond His love and care. It comforts me to know that there is life for a look at the Crucified One. We do not know how* many look up, but God does not miss one upward look. Commit your loved ones to Him "whose love is greater than the measure of man's mind.”

1 bad hoped to meet many of you at Convention in Palmerston North, but I am sorry to say that the majority of the officers are in favour of postponing Convention because of the Pacific menace, so I most regretfully must say that Convention is postponed. We cannot postpone our work. Never in the history of our Union is our work more urgently needed; never has the drink traffic had a more sinister influence than now. Mv friends, work and pray. Use your influence in schools, yes, in churches, where youth gathers; indeed, there is no place where your influence is not required. Use the literature to the best of your ability, but use it. The money that was to be spent on travelling could be used to broadcast the "White Ribbon.'” Make your Union meetings attractive and link up new members that this year may be a >ear of effort. As our lads are facing fearful dangers to defend the right, may we face this enemy with faith and courage, knowing that we too arc in it—all in it to defend the right—and right shall win. Yours till death or victory. JESSIE HIETT.