SPECIAL REPORTS

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 8, 1 September 1949, Page 5

SPECIAL REPORTS

nelson s youth gathering There was an attendance of about 70 i the luly monthly Youth gathering. * xv |,cn arrangements were made by members of the Church of Christ The speaker was Mrs. Blampied (Church of Christ Minister), who dealt with the e\ iU of moderate drinking. it with moderate stealing, or moderate murder. Several films wrre shown, some illustrating wellknown hymns, which were sung with reat enjoyment. The song-leader was Mr H Kirbv, and tea was served by Misdarnes Dellow, Keeble, (. Knapp, ami H. Pearce. SPECIAL SPEAKER AT UNION MEETING. NELSON Mrs. Christie, on furlough from a Presbyterian Mission Field in India, and a member of the W C.T.U. in that country, gave a devotional talk at Nelson’s July Union meeting, basing her address on Mark 9, v. 14. The speaker stressed the word “Christian,” in the name of our organisation and urged us to be sure that our entire programme was based on Christian motives. Then she told us that Pakistan is bringing in Prohibition on the basis of the Moslem law; and India’s programme is based on humanitarian grounds. India, inspired by higher motives, is having greater success up to the present, hut standards of expediency change, and there is no assur.tnic that India’s prohibition schemes will endure. We Christians are working for the conversion of people to the point where they will willingly submit themselves to Christ’s standard in relation to intoxicants, as to everything else. This is why we must constantly remember that our membership is in the Women’s CHRISTIAN Temperance Union.