SUNDAY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17628, 4 December 1922, Page 11

SUNDAY SCHOOL ACTIVITIES.

! PRAISE FROM MK W. C. PEARCE. | (from CUP. OWN COKKIiSI'ONIHONT.) | VANCOUVER, November 2. ! There is one extremely strong admirer of both Australia and New Zealand who has returned to Canada delighted with the progress of the Sunday School activities in too Antipodes, for Mr W. €. Penrco, secretary of the World's Sunday School Association, has been busy singing tlie praises of what he observed during Tiis recent visit to the Commonwealth of Australia and to the Dominion of New Zealand. In the course of an interesting disquisition covering his impressions, published in the "Toronto Globe,'' Untario, Mr Pearco says:—"Snnda> school work in New Zealand has also kept paco with the otter developments. In Auckland, Wellington and Dimedui, wo found strong, efficient Sunday School Unions, with provision lor the dissemination of t-ho best literature, somo promotion of teacher training, and a very keen desire for a larger advance. At Christchurch there was held a Dominion Confcienee. l-o eona dor the basis of a national organisation. Each of the provinces, all of winch we visited, voted "favouring the forming of such an organisation as a section of the World's Sunday School Association. This Conference was no doubt opocnmaking in the. work of religious education iu New Zealand. "Its conclusions were sent to tne various constituencies participating in the Conference for ratification. As these conclusions were reached 60 harmoniously and the delegate.? present representative of all denominations, as such, and the Sunday School Unions also, it promised definitely a National Council of great power. The programme for the new organisation tentatively discussed at tho Christchurch Conference revealed a clear vision of the need, a fine spirit of unity and a determination to inaugurate a programme practical and far-seeing. "All hail to New Zealand as a section of tho World's Sunday School Association.'"' Most pladlv did these leaders discuss tho suggestion that they take a part of the world Held, and nt the proner time they will do so. Those who attend the Glasgow Convention in 1924 will find New Zealand present with a fin© delegation, an accurate sta-

tistioal ronort and an exhibit worthy of a place "besido the beet that may bo there. ''Willi New Zealand and Australia so effectively loading in tho work of religious education, ;i leadership is provided for much of the Southern Hemisphere. As tha liHit fihinea in these lands it will shod rays of hope and gladness to the. whole Melanesian and Polynesian world."