Page 147 - YB1896

Sk~tcbYoung Wom~n's cbrtsnan Jlssociation. C HERE is a beautiful olrl-fnshicned word, now almost fallen into disuse, ~:1~~1111~~e~~lsdar;~11~~~11~~~\;t~li~;n~~~tn:.ll~tl1;;~):dail:dg~~~~~~:~;~~l.re~: ;rC~~:: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the grace that comes only from living as in His constant presence, One does not acquire this grace in a nor does one don it as a garment. It grows as the life grows, and blooms beauty as the character ripens. And so we have formed a union, here in our college, a union to help one another to in grace and in the knowledge of OUf Lord and Saviour Jesus The Young \VomCI1's Christian Association means much to its members; it means their aim in life~it means their confession to the world of their hope and faith. Once every week, in our OW11 bright Association room, we meet to speak words of love and encouragement to one another, to sing cheer and • happiness into our hearts and to ask God's blessing on our daily lives. Per- haps the words spoken and the hymns and the prayers offered are very simple, but come from earnest and they bear witness to the love and of earnest young Surely . wiil be purer and holier, the ideals will be higher and the more heavenly for the brief spent in that room just with and ourselves. It may be that we shall do be that only God will know of our strivings grace, only God will see manifesting of grace in our lives: but, after all, it is for God's eyes that we work and in His sight that we would be holy. - And so we are trying to make of am lives pure and noble, trying to lift to show to the world that a union of power. "7