PRAYERS FOR PEACE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29674, 18 November 1961, Page 13

PRAYERS FOR PEACE

(New Zealand Press Association)

NAPIER, Nov. 17. days without being deeply Eight New Zealand church leaders today issued a joint call to prayer for a solution of world problems. They are the Most Rev. N. A. Lesser, Archbishop of New Zealand, the Right Rev. S. C. Francis, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, the Rev. E. C. Leadley, president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, the Rev. H. Lloyd, president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, Commissioner A. J. Gilliard, of the Salvation Army, the Rev. S. C. Ennor, president of the Congregational Union, Mr A. C. Tucker, president of the Associated Churches of Christ of New Zealand, and Mr W. N. Johnson, New Zealand Society of Friends. "It is impossible to open

one’s newspaper in these r impressed by the gravity of events in their world-wide : context,” the statement says. "Some of us are of the opinion that the calling tor ' a single day of prayer would . not be adequate as a response, but that something , much more sustained as an : effort is required. "It is for this reason that , we . . . make the simple and ■ humble request that Christian people should give ; themselves daily to prayer that God's will may be done 1 in the world which He made , and would constantly rej deem. , “As corporately we call t our people to prayer, our s des *{® not just to resolve trouble spots, but to create ’ J world opinion in which God can make manifest His t will . . “