CALL TO PRAYER.
ACTION BY UNITED CHURCHES. INVITATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following joint statement has been 'issued by the Church leaders : “On Sunday, May 2, the Churches are being invited to join in prayer for the cause to which the Allied nations are committed. It is clear that great actions, decisive of the issue of the war in which all the Allied nations will be involved, will take place during the coming months. It is therefore hoped that oil Sunday all the nations engaged in the momentous struggle will bo remembered: Great Britain and her Dominions, the United States of America, Russia, China and, among the smaller nations, especially the suffering people of Poland who, on Monday, May 3, will be celebrating the 152nd anni-1 versary of the Constitution of their country.” The statement is signed by the following :
Campbell, Archbishop of New Zealand. His Grace Archbishop O’Shea. J. G. Laughton, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. O. H. Olds, President of the Methodist Church Conference. F. A. Parry, President of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. -T. Evan Smith, Commissioner of the Salvation Army. Godfrey Frctwell, President of the Associated Churches of Christ. F. de Lisle, Chairman of the Congregational Union of New Zealand,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 169, 29 April 1943, Page 4
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209CALL TO PRAYER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 169, 29 April 1943, Page 4
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