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The Review of Reviews. 



February 10, 1906^ 



The Hockey Team of t*e Taranaki St.. Wellington. Wesleyan Church. 

 Rev. P. W~. Fairelough, Minister. 



has been entered upon when our young men are 

 neither afraid nor ashamed to ally themselves with 

 Christ's cause. Evidence of this altered state of 

 things is to be found not only in Church attend- 

 ance, but also in the many avenues of life in which 

 men meet and work. That our Christian paper, 

 The Outlook, should have noticed and spoken of the 

 movement in the following terms is not perhaps to 

 be wondered at. In an editorial it says: — 



YOUNG MENS MOVEMENT. 



" A careful perusal of the articles, addresses, im- 

 pressions and reports dealing with the Easter Camp 

 in connection with the Young Men's Bible Class 

 Union, which appear in this issue, should be suffi- 

 cient to convince the most sceptical that this move- 

 ment is one of the most hopeful and significant 

 forces making for national righteousness, and the 

 extension of Christ's Kingdom, with which our 

 colony has yet been blessed. The Conference held 

 at Christchurch in May last, conducted bv Mr. J. 

 R. Mott, in connection with the Student Union 

 movement, was considered one of the most note- 

 worthy gatherings which have ever been held in New 

 Zealand, whilst the impetus which that gathering has 



given to the cause of Foreign Missions is a matter 

 of history. The Bible Class Camp, in its 

 turn, promises to be a milestone in the progress of 

 our Home Mission work, in that it heralds the up- 

 rising of the best and noblest of the young men 

 of New Zealand against the forces of evil, taking 

 their stand under the banner of the Lord Jesus 

 Christ. . . . The motto of the Union, ' Be 

 strong, and show thyself a man.' is carried into prac- 

 tice in every department of life, and, whether on 

 the playing field, in the boarding establishment, in 

 the warehouse, counting-house, factory or workshop, 

 all over the colony, the Bible Class members are 

 demonstrating the joyful possibility of living out 

 clean, Christian lives. It is impossible to over-esti- 

 mate the effects of this gradual leavening of the 

 commercial, the professional and the labour world 

 which is going on under our eyes, and the revolution 

 in feeling and opinion, which it is bound to create 

 in favour of all that is honest and pure and beauti- 

 ful, as against the base and the ignoble, and the> 

 bestial. This movement is a splendidly hopeful sign 

 of the times, and it deserves universal support." 

 It is more remarkable, however, when the secular 



