A SPIRITUAL GENEVA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7

A SPIRITUAL GENEVA.

BISHOP BENNETT’S HOPE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feh. 20. Bishop Bennett of Aotearoa returned to-dav from the World Missions Conference at Tambaram, near Madras. India. The conference is held about once every ten years. There were nearly five hundred delegates, he said, from seventy different nationalities, and the universality of the English language was shown by the fact that thev all understood it and were able to conduct the entire conference without the assistance of interpreters. Other New Zealand delegates were Mr and Airs Afacdarmid, Church representatives, and Atr G- Falloon, representing the University students. ’-‘lt struck me that this conference might lead to a solution of a great many of the difficulties that arise today between various nationalities,” said the Bishop. “If the idea of a spiritual Geneva could he established on the prigeiples of the Christian Faith it would help to solve those problems. All the representatives of seventy nations at the conference met in perfect friendship.” He had been very interested to see the harmonious relations that existed between the Chinese and Japanese delegates. Bishop Bennett visited New Zealanders doing missionary work in Tndia and all were doing splendid work, particularly in the educational field.