BIBLE-CLASS WORK

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 81, 30 December 1931, Page 11

BIBLE-CLASS WORK

Presbyterian Conference FULL PROGRAMME By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, December 29. The annual Presbyterian Bibleclasses’ summer conference, which began at Invercargill on Saturday, shows promise of being as highly successful as those held in the past. There are 613 registrations to date, delegates being present from all parts of New Zealand, from North Auckland to Bluff. The central theme round which all conference study and meditation are planned to revolve is the challenging ideal of “the world for Christ,” the title of a study book prepared by the Rev, H. Davies, young men’s Bibleclass missionary representative in Canton.

The daily programme is a full one. The morning is devoted to study circles and sectional meetings for Bible-class members and Sunday school teachers, the afternoons being taken up with sport and recreation, including on different days tennis, cricket, swimming, basketball and athletics. On Sunday the conference began in real earnest. In the afternoon Dr. J. D. Salmond, director of youth work, who recently returned from extensive travel abroad, delivered an address entitled “A Survey of the Modern World.” He dealt with/ the great forces which are at work' in the world to-day: tho intense nationalism influencing both West and East; Communism, particularly in its results in Russia, and Christianity, which he said was the only real force capable of affording a solution of the world’s problems and needs. On Monday an all-day plciiic was held at Bluff. In the evening the Rev. D. C. Herron took as his subject “The Implications of the Christian Gospel for our own Country.” This evening he spoke on “The Implications of the Christian Gospel for the Regions Beyond." The conference will be continued for the rest of the week, and delegates will leave for their homes on Monday next