ORDAINED IN PRISON CAMP
(Bv Telegraph. —Press Association.) DUNEDIN, March 7. The story of the ordination into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in a German prison camp of Mr. lan Graham Ryiburn was told at a meeting ot the Dunedin Presbytery in a letter from a chaplain, Captain R. J. Griffiths, of Waimate, himself a prisoner of war. Mr. Rybtirn was at the time of his enlistment a student at the Theological Hall, Knox College. The ordination ceremony was conducted by Mr. Griffiths at the Genishagen camp s Berlin, on October 2, 1944. Au interesting feature of the occasion was the "earnest co-operation of the German military authorities at the ‘" st rHffiths the Y.M.C.A. in Germany. Mr. Griffiths emphasized the part played by the German High Command in making his attendance possible by conveying him a considerable distance. Mr Ryburn’s camp congregation consists 'of about 150 men from working camps in various parts of Germany as well as representatives of the German Foreign Office and the German army.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 138, 8 March 1945, Page 6
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169ORDAINED IN PRISON CAMP Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 138, 8 March 1945, Page 6
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