AGGRESSIVE EVANGELISM

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 8

AGGRESSIVE EVANGELISM

While Russia, for political purposes, is swinging back to an anti-God campaign, the attempt to bring God to the people, and the people to God, is taking new forms in those countries where religion is still not a crime. What is claimed to be "the first Gospel route march to be held in the Southern Hemisphere" is now in progress in New South Wales. The march, from Nowra to Sydney, is planned to last a fortnight. Those making this long walk number "twenty marchers, representing every denomination of the Christian Church," and they will conduct openair meetings en route. In the present century religious revivalism has become little more than a tradition. Was it based on a nine-teenth-century force that is dead, or is that force only sleeping? Probably the last mass-exhibition of religious fervour in Sydney occurred during a faith-healing campaign some fifteen' years ago, but this was in a category different from that of nineteenth-century revivalism. At the close of the march, in Sydney, "Dr. Carter, well-known Bible teacher and evangelist, of Dundee, Scotland, will give an address on aggressive evangelistic work in many lands." Will Sydney, "the playground of the Pacific," listen? l