WORLD METHODISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 12

WORLD METHODISM.

BRISTOL THE CENTRE. REV. DALBYS VIEWS. The new minister -for Methodist Church, the Rev. Leonard B. Dalby, who arrived by the Remuera from England on Monday, has had a most interesting career. He has travelled on behalf of the English Home Missions Society in every country and has spoken in hundreds of towns aud cities in the Old Country.- Bristol, so celebrated for its Methodism from the very beginning of the Weseyan revival in the eighteenth century, was the centre of'a six years' ministry. Mr. Dalby says that Bristol is. perhaps, the most influential of all tlie English cities in the making of a world-Methodism. Wesley himself built his first edifice in the heart of the city.

Mr. Dalby was for seven years in London, preaching in the midst of great populous boroughs. There he worked, among people of all lands and of all conditions. As chaplain of Holloway Gaol he came in contact with many notable criminals and international notorieties. He preached his farewell sermon in tho potteries at Tunstall, near Stoke-on-Trent, to a crowded congregation of potters and miners. Mr. Dalby has been lent by the British Wesleyan Conference to tlie Methodist Church of New Zealand for a period of from three to five years. Mrs. Dalby is the daughter of the la+.e editor of , the "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle." She was widely known in Northumberland and Durham by her writings, which appeared under the nom-de-plume of "Geraldine." Mr. Dalby was also a steady contributor to the columns of the "Chronicle."