UNHAPPY FAMILIES
NEW TASK FOR CHURCH (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday. "The circumstances of the war seem likely to bring about a considerable increase in the amount of domestic unhappiness," said the Rev. J. S. Murray, of Ashburton, at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. He was speaking of the increasing amount of mental strain and nervous disorders in the lives of the people to-day. The Church needed to be adequately equipped to deal with these things, Mr. Murray said, and he asked that students for the ministry should be given some training in these matters, and that periodical refresher courses for the ministry should be held for the purpose of instruction. The Rev. I. Wilson, of Hanmer, said there was great danger in ministers interfering in cases of nervous distress if they did not know what they were doing. They must cooperate with the medical profession. The assembly decided to authorise arrangements for instruction to be given to students, and it also directed the life and work committee to make similar arrangements for ministers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 268, 11 November 1943, Page 6
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