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The Review of Reviews. 



February SO, 1906. 



for one year, and has its name inscribed thereon. 

 Considerable interest is taken in the sports competi- 

 tions as in most of the larger classes are athletes 

 of first-class rank. 



The Rev. J. Mackenzie, M.A., of Christchurch, 

 after visiting the camp at Christchurch, wrote: — 

 " Even a casual visitor to the Young Men's Camp 

 could not but feel how deeply-rooted the Bible Class 

 Movement had already become in New Zealand. 

 One was struck at the outset by the number and the 

 variety of the men present, by the atmosphere of 

 good fellowship that everywhere prevailed, and bv 

 the heartiness and enthusiasm that characterised 

 the whole proceedings. It was pleasant to find that 

 some who a few years ago seemed to have outlived 

 their youth, were here as leaders and secretaries of 

 classes, sitting side by side with lads just entering 

 upon manhood, sharing their interests, and looking 

 at things from their point of view. One of the 

 benefits of the Bible Class Movement seems to be 

 that when once a man throws himself heartily into 



it, he never grows old. . . . It is a question 

 whether the Church as a whole should not see in 

 this movement a reason for self-reproach. It has 

 long been customary in certain quarters to deplore 

 the fact that the young men of this country were 

 impervious to religious influences. The originators 

 of the Bible Classes have shown that when suitable 

 men and methods are forthcoming, and when the 

 Gospel is set in aa intelligible relation to a voung 

 man's life, the response will be immediate and gene- 

 ral. Churches in which the young man is an un- 

 known quantity, might, with advantage, cease their 

 lamentations over the degeneracy of the age, and 

 take this lesson to heart. . . . On the day when 

 the forces that are latent in this Bible Class Move- 

 ment are organised and disciplined, and definitely 

 harnessed to the task of extending the Kingdom of 

 God in this land, the Church will enter upon a new 

 era, while her work will assume new proportions, 

 and be prosecuted with new hope and enthusiasm. 

 May God speed the day !" 



The Young Men of St. Paul's, Christchurch. 



