EVANGELISTIC WORK AMONG STUDENTS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 216, 9 June 1936, Page 3

EVANGELISTIC WORK AMONG STUDENTS

Rev. C. F. Andrews Arriving To-day A distinguished Christian worker and writer, the Rev. Charles. Freer Andrews, vice-president in Rabindranath Tagore's Institution, Santiniketan, Bengal, India, is to arrive iu Wellington this morning from Auckland. After a fortnight in the South Island, he will return and spend a week in Wellington, afterward visiting Auckland before leaving for Australia. Expressing its pleasure at the work to be undertaken by Mr. Andrews, a tetter to the New Zealand churches from the New Zealand Student Christian Movement reads as follows: — “We have heard with great joy that the Rev. C. F. Andrews is to give the greater part of June and the early days of July to evangelistic work in New Zealand universities and training colleges. “For two reasons especially we feel that the whole Church in New Zealand should be thankful that this plan has been possible at this particular time. First, there is the importance of the Held—the student community itself. It Is beyond all measure vital that the Gospel should be truly and effectively preached in the colleges, if its influence is to be powerfully felt in the community. This University Mission is a venture holding very great possibilities for the whole work of Christ’s Church in this country; for much depends upon the response of the student community to the word of the Gospel. “We would most earnestly commend the mission to the prayers of all Christian folk, desiring greatly that the Student Christian Movement might be guided of God wisely to plan for the venture, that Mr. Andrews might be by God's Spirit strengthened for this special work, and that in the colleges themselves there niisht be that spirit of sincerity which is the price of Christian knowledge. (Signed.) A. W. Auckland, Archbishop and Primate. Henry H. Barton, Moderator ot the Presbyterian General Assembly. E. P. Blamires, President of the Methodist Conference. Walter Nash. M.P., Minister of Finance. John Dickie, Principal, Presbyterian Theological Hall. J. J. North. Principal, Baptist College. IT. Ranston. Principal, Trinity Methodist College. Herbert W. Newell. The Terrace Congregational Church. Wellington. ehairman of the N.Z. Student Christian Movement.’