CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR
PROGRESS OF MOVEMENT
An. address on the Christian Endeavour movement was delivered in the Town Hall Concert Chamber yesterday afternoon by the Rev! S. Vareoe : Cocks,, of Australia, vice-president of the World's Christian Endeavour Union. The Rev. C. B. Boggis presided, and the speaker-was introduced by the Rev. A. N. Scotter, of Palmerston North, Dominion president of the organisation.
The Christian Endeavour movement was growing at the rate of one society a day in .Britain, said the Rev. Mr. Cocks, and was making rapid progress in the Southern Hemisphere, where it now had 86,000 members. The youth of today needed leaders, he said, and "they must be taken on past the great fields, of sport; highev than the upper levels of education; higher than the upper-grounds of prominent citizenship—the young people must gather round the Cross of Jesus." .' The Rev. Mr. Cocks preached at St. John's Presbyterian Church• yesterday morning, and at Wesley.Church in the evening. . . - ,- ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 20, 24 July 1933, Page 13
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158CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 20, 24 July 1933, Page 13
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