"COMMISSION ON THE ORIENT."
A visitor to New Zealand at tho present time is the Rev. Wm. 0. Allen, who hails from San Jose (California). The rev. gentleman is a minister of the Society of Friends. He writes for a number of religious papers in the United States, aad is keenly interested in all moral aad religious movements having for their object the bringing together of peoples and nations in a spirit of good-will. In the course of an interesting address delivered in the Dunedin V.M.C.A. Assembly Hall, Mr Allen, in indicating the efforts of church people in tho United States to work together for a common end, mention that a Federal Council of Christian Churches existed in America, with headquarters in New York. The council represented 19 million communicants of Protestant Churches, and there was a growing spirit of unity which worked out not only in their own country, but to other countries. For instance, he said that it was part of the work of the Federal Council to arrange for exchanges of pulpits between ministers in Britain and in the United States. The Federal Council had also a '' commission on the Orient,'' which had for its objective a better understanding between the nations of the . East with those of the West, and good
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1919, Page 1
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