REV. A. BRASH’S WORK

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30192, 25 July 1963, Page 15

REV. A. BRASH’S WORK

Tribute By N.C.C. Tributes were paid to the retiring general secretary of the National Council of Churches (the Rev. A. A. Brash) at the annual meeting of the council in Christchurch yesterday. He will leave in February to take up a position with the East Asian Christian Council. The Rev. M. W. Wilson, Moderator of the Presbytery, said that Mr Brash had done more than any other New Zealander to lead his countrymen to a realisation of the significance of Asia. In involving New Zealand with the destinies of Asian countries, Mr Brash had become an effective influence

on the development of the country He had become a national and, lately, a world figure Mr J. A. North, of the Baptist Union, said that it was difficult to imagine the National Council of Churches without Mr Brash. New Zealand should be thankful, however, that it was able to make a contribution to the churches of South-east Asia in Mr Brash. The little that New Zealand could do for Asia was overbalanced by what it could learn, Mr Brash said. “It is my great conviction that the presence of Jesus Christ is found in each of the churches, and it is because of this that we cannot let our ecumenical work go,” he said.