UNIVERSITY MISSION

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 12

UNIVERSITY MISSION

♦— — OFFICIAL WELCOME TO REV. C. F. ANDREWS The university and the church offered an official welcome to the Rev. C. F. Andrews, of India, last evening at Canterbury College, preceding his address. “Christ and the Human Need.” The welcome and opening address of the University Mission were under the auspices of the New Zealand Student Christian Movement, which has organised a series of addresses to be given at Canterbury College this week. Dr. J. Hisht. the rector of the college. who presided, expressed his great pleasure at the opportunity of welcoming so distinguished a visitor. He was proud to welcome him, first on the basis of the fraternal feeling among universities of the world, since Mr Andrews was a very distinguished university man, scholar, and educationist: second, on the basis of his sociological werk, especially with peoples of the Empire; and third, because Mr Andrews was the friend cf remarkable men of the age, and afforded young people the opportunity and benefit of his guidance in the problems of the Christian world. Mrs C. L. Young, headmistress of St. Margaret’s College, endorsed Dr. Hight’s words of welcome, and expressed the hope that Mr Andrews would be able to convey some of the peace and quietness was typical cf the Eastern civilisation he knew so well.

The welcome on behalf of the. clergy and ministers, of the churches was spoken by Bishop West-Watson. He welcomed him first as an old friend and fellow of the same university, and. .second, because Mr Andrews was an outstanding international figure of today. Mr Andrews, in replying to the welcome, said the Christian mission work was his greatest reason for coming to New Zealand. His heart was very full, he said He had found Canterbury College strongly reminiscent of Cambridge. The river and the bridges, and parts of the city, and the way they were built, had to a most remarkable degree, a touch of the Old Country.

At the conclusion of Mr Andrews’s address a supper, arranged in , conjunction with the College Radical Club, was held in the Students’ Association building. At the request of students present. Mr Andrews gave a short informal talk on his experiences in India and South Africa.