V.M.C.A. LUNCHEON

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 21

V.M.C.A. LUNCHEON

MINISTER ENTERTAINED

While the Maunganui was in Wellington the Rev. R. O. Clack, of North London, who was formevy a V.M.C.A. worker in 'Australia, was the guest of Mr. Len J. Greenberg, secretary of the Wellington Y;M.C.A., and yesterday he was met at luncheon by the directors of the association. After the luncheon Mi*. Clack addressed the directors and members on Dr. Albert Schweitzer's work for humanity in Africa. Dr. Schweitzer won doctorates in philosophy and music at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Clack said, and became a Doctor of Theology at thirty. He made a decision when twenty-one to serve mankind, and after .graduating in theology'he turned his attention to the needs of the primitive peoples of French equatorial Africa. He studied medicine and surgery and left Europe in 1913 to undertake his work in Africa. Mr. Clack said that Dr. Schweitzer, who was his personal friend, was a great internationalist, a citizen of the world, and a man of massive intellectual attainments, but a simple, sincere servant of his fellow-men. He had been described by Bishop Barnes, of Birmingham, as one of the three greatest world figures of the present day. Mr. Clack left Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday en route for London. He intends to visit Mr. Harry IN. Holmes, who was at one time geneI ral secretary of the V.M.C.A. in Wellington, and is now field secretary in New York. i

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