"SICK CHILD" HEALTHY
COHGREGATIOMUST REVIVAL [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 12. “ Progress has been so marked that it has been little less than a revelation in New Zealand Congregationalism,” remarked the Rev. H. Johnson, Moderator of the Assembly of the Congregational Union, to-day. Three years ago it was spoken of as the sick child of the denominations, but two years ago a new spirit came to Auckland, and the result had been revitalised Congregationalism all through tho dominion. ■They were now 100 per cent, better in efficiency and lone. Eighteen settlements of pastorates had been effected, and now men had been brought into tho ministry—-three in Otago, three in Canterbury, live in Wellington, and six in Auckland province. The college scheme had been launched with great hopes, and the first three students enrolled.
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Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 6
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134"SICK CHILD" HEALTHY Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 6
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