FOUNDER ARRIVES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 94, 15 January 1936, Page 13

FOUNDER ARRIVES

Elin Four-Square Movement

Founder of tlie Elin Four-Square Movement, Mr. F. B. Van Eyk, has arrived in Wellington to conduct a sixmouth revival campaign throughout the Dominion. Since he founded the movement in Australia in 1929, Mr. Van Eyk has been attended by remarkable success in bis campaigning, anti his addresses have a boused great interest throughout the Common wealth, Mr. Van Eyk was born in South Africa, and for many years he was keenly interested in big-game hunting there. In an interview yesterday, Mr. Van Eyk said that some years ago he had become “converted” and had given up his life to evangelical work. He had founded the Elin Four Square Movement, which had four primary points—(l) the belief that Jesus Christ is the Saviour; (2) belief in Divine healing through tlie Blood Covenant; (3) belief in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and (4) the Second Coming. Great progress had been made in Australia and South Africa, and 27 churches had ’been opened. Mr. Van Eyk said that one of his greatest meetings had been at Cessnock, a coal mining town near Newcastle, where 4000 persons had been packed into a theatre which had been built to accommodate only 2000. The town iiad a population of about 25,000, and there had been 700 converts in three weeks and 800 baptisms during the first year. At Lithgow, churches and balls had been filled, and within two months the people had built a church which was filled with active working members. After his campaign in New Zealand. Mr. Van Eyk intends to go to tire United States of America, where he will work in conjunction with Mrs. Aimee McPherson.