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Public Notices SOUTH BRIGHTON COMMUNITY CENTRE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING APRIL 26 at 8 p.m. On the premises BEATTY STREET AB residents welcome. S9O9 WE BELIEVE WE BELIEVE that the most basic and inalienable right of every creature is to hear what his Creator has done for him and expects of him. By virtue of being a member of the human race every man has the right to a copy of God’s relevation to men—the Bible. WE BELIEVE that every language still serving as a mother tongue of any communitv of people is adequate to convey God’s truth as given in the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus Christ in John 17 said to his Father, “I have given unto them the words that thou gavest me.” We do not know in what form the Father gave “the words” to the Son. But we do know the Son gave them to his disciples in the despised local dialect of Western Aramaic spoken in Galilee, a dialect prohibited from use in the synagogues of Jerusalem at that very time because of its barbarisms, accent and grammatical mistakes. In his statement Christ gives assurance that the message which emanated from the heart of the Father and was delivered by him to the disciples in their mother tongue lost nothing In the transmission. WE BELIEVE that the written Word of God, the Bible, is the basic document of our faith, (“man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the month of God”), the most effective tool in evangelism (“able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus”), the standard - of conduct for the Christian | and the church (“profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness”), the believer's indispensable weapon in his conflict with Satan (“the sword of the Spirit, vi’hich is the Word of God”); the Godgiven, spirit-empowered instrument for every Christian’s witness and ministry (“that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work” all references, New American Standard). WE BELIEVE that the translation of the Word of God into the languages of men is one of the most basic elements in the fulfilment of our Lord’s command to “Go and make disciples of all the nations (ethnic groups) . . . teaching them to observe all that I commanded you . . The only way that this can be fulfilled literally is (a) to place in the hands of every believer the Scriptures which contain all that we have of what Jesus taught, and (bi to train that believer to obey the Scriptures. In this conviction, then, the work accomplished by Bible translators around the world is not a luxury or a peripheral part of the total task, lit is an indispensable element in the ongoing and upbuilding of the church. And as the Holy Spirit uses it first | in the hearts, and then on r the lips, of the ethnic group; believers, it is the secret of | the multiplication and growth of the church until her Lord? shall come. I GEORGE M. COWAN. i President, | WYCLIFFE BIBLE I TRANSLATORS, U.S.A. CHRISTCHURCH REP., PHONE 326-146. 2938 SPELD CANTERBURY (INC.) : ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THE Fifth Annual General Meeting of SPELD Canterbury (Inc.), will be held in the:— CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL HALL, Chester St, Christchurch, on Thursday, April 22, at 8 p.m. BUSINESS 1(1) To confirm the minutes : of the last Annual ; General Meeting. (2) To receive the Annual Report. (3) Financial Statement for the year ended March 31, 1976. (4) Election of Officers. (5) General Business allowed by the Chairman of the Meeting. GUEST SPEAKER Miss Binda Goldsborough, i M.B.E. A REPORT ON HER RECENT TRAVELS OVERSEAS TO VARIOUS LEARNING CENTRES. 2940 COLLEEN DEWE, MP. | ’WILL be available for inter- \ views in Akaroa, 9 a.m. toi 12 noon, on Saturday, April I 24. For appointment please I (ring Akaroa 33, or Christ-1 ■ church 997-812. 57931 wlp CHRISTCHURCH BOYS’ ! HIGH SCHOOL PARENT TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION A SOCIAL Evening and | Dance in honour of retiring I headmaster Mr C. F. S. Cald- i swell, and Mrs Caldwell, will ! ibe held at the School < Assembly Hall at 8 p.m. on j Friday, April 30. Past and I 'present members of the * Association may purchase ■ tickets for the function from the Schoo) Office. Price $3, single, >6 Double. i MOm)