STUDENT MISSION.
VISIT OF REV. ANDREWS. IN AUCKLAND FROM JUKE 30. Towards the end of .Tune the eminent Church leader ansl "writer the Rev. ('. I*. Andrews, who is at present conducting u University mission in New Zealand, will visit Auckland to continue his work at the Auckland University College. He has just left the Ota,no University, where lie held hi.s mission from June 10 to .lime 14. and he will he in Auckland from June 30 to July A representative and energetic committee is at work in Auckland preparing the way for Air. Andrews' visit. Press reports have announced the success of the missioner in Dunedin, while the general secretary of the New Zealand .Student Christian Movement state<l that the reception given there by the student? was beyond all expectation. In his circular letter to the students of the New Zealand University and Training Colleges, the Rev. Andrews savs, inter alia: "My supreme longing is to present Christ to the younger generation, both men and women, as the one satisfying answer to all our questionings about God and human society and our individual lives." He said that he had taken part in a similar mission held at the Cambridge University. He connected the mission to the tenseness of the situation in Europe, and he added that no doubt that tense atmosphere did much to make that vivid background to the University mission of which everyone was conscious. hi outline, Mr. Andrews' subjects will be: Christ and the 1111111.111 Need; the Meaning of the Cross; the Power of the Spirit; and the Abiding Presence. When he leaves New Zealand lie is going to Australia to hold a mission there, and then to Ceylon and India. He would be returning to England in time for the quadrennial conference of the World's Student Christian Federation in Birmingham on January 5, 1937.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 9
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