SALVATION ARMY WORK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3402, 18 December 1911, Page 2

SALVATION ARMY WORK.

THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S SECRETARY

Major Rowley, the young peoples secretary to the Salvation Army, whose work extends over the whole of the North Island, arrived in Gisborne on j Saturday, and yesterday conducted several meetings for young people in connection with the .anniversary of the I establishment of this branch of the work jin Gisborne. Commencing at 7 a.m. | with a prayer meeting, a meeting was ! held at 10 a.m.- and another at 11 a-m. ! At the latter meeting Major Rowley preached on “Divine Compassion," ! dealing with the need of the extension I of sympathy to those out of touch, with ! Church life and away from religious I influences. A service was held in the ! afternoon, at which some 100 children i were present. The singing at this meeting was exceedingly good, and a number of workers gave short addressee. Adjutant Melksham said a few words of welcome to Major Rowley, and the latter preached from the text, “If God be for us who be against us." He quoted the 7000 first offenders who passed through the Courts of this country during lastyear, and said that there was hardly ! one of these whose fate might not have | been different under better training. | He also spoke of the appalling evil of j cigarette smoking when indulged in by j youii" boys. He was sorry to sav that in some of the larger cities girls were smoking as much as boys. In his obsorI rations he had found that- this evil had la terrible effect on certain constitutions j and he gave a number of instancesIn the evening Major Rowley preaeliied from the text, “Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting." He dealt on this occasion with the life of what was one the greatest city in the world—Babylon. : To an interviewer last evening Major ’Rowley said: “My work is among the ! young people in particular, and in the i Salvation Army in general.” The juveI nile work, he said, was in a very enJ couraging state here, and with the ini' creased accommodation in the new j schoolroom, and the number of workers j they intended bringing in, they hoped | to have the work right up to date ea rly i next year. ' A special meeting will bo hold in the 1 barracks this evening.