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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4960, 25 February 1937, Page 7

In his presidential address at the New Zealand Methodist Conference at. Auckland, the Rev. F. Copeland referred to the post-war drift from religion, but pointed out that the astonishing vitality of the Christian faith had been abundantly demonstrated in history when critics had deemed it to be on its death-bed. They were at present confronted, Mr. Copeland said, with what might be called a world slump in organised religion—a secularisation of life which post-war years had accentuated, but which really began long before 1914. They could not with any heart face the future as a Church without confidence—faith in God, in their own call and commission, and in the ultimate outcome of the task to which they had put their hands. But spiritual equipment, Mr. Copeland emphasised, required supplementing with efficiency.